Kentucky teams post 3.157 GPA for spring semester
University of Kentucky Athletics announced its eighth consecutive semester with a department-wide grade-point average of 3.0 or better.
Wildcats athletes on scholarship posted a cumulative GPA of 3.157 for the just-completed spring semester, nearly identical to their 3.149 last fall.
“We have a group of graduating seniors who have contributed to a 3.0 GPA in every semester they’ve spent at Kentucky,” Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said in a news release. “That’s an achievement by our students that should not be overlooked. I want to congratulate those students and everyone who supports them for making that possible.”
Eighteen of UK’s 20 teams posted GPAs of 3.0 or better, with only men’s basketball (2.875) and football (2.541) coming up short. The men’s basketball team’s GPA, including non-scholarship players, was 3.033.
Women’s golf led all teams with a GPA of 3.705, closely followed by softball (3.638) and women’s swimming and diving (3.607). Women’s soccer (3.556), women’s tennis (3.554) and rifle (3.500) each also had GPAs of 3.5 or better.
Even Coach Matthew Mitchell’s troubled women’s basketball program managed a lofty GPA, coming in at 3.463.
Every Wildcats team surpassed the Academic Progress Rate cut score in a report released by the NCAA in April, continuing a streak of breaking or tying the school record for NCAA graduation rate every year since the statistic was introduced in 2005.
UK’s spring GPA
Sport-by-sport grade-point averages for the 2016 spring semester. First number is for scholarship athletes. Number in parentheses includes scholarship and non-scholarship athletes:
Baseball: 3.055 (3.163)
Men’s basketball: 2.875 (3.033)
Women’s basketball: 3.463 (3.463)
Men’s cross country: 3.182 (3.270)
Women’s cross country: 3.315 (3.437)
Football: 2.541 (2.690)
Men’s golf: 3.393 (3.344)
Women’s golf: 3.705 (3.713)
Gymnastics: 3.273 (3.445)
Rifle: 3.500 (3.500)
Men’s soccer: 3.380 (3.357)
Women’s soccer: 3.556 (3.344)
Softball: 3.638 (3.593)
Men’s swimming: 3.216 (3.247)
Women’s swimming: 3.607 (3.530)
Men’s tennis: 3.024 (3.114)
Women’s tennis: 3.554 (3.551)
Men’s track: 3.063 (3.138)
Women’s track: 3.048 (3.019)
Volleyball: 3.394 (3.429)
Men’s sports: 2.972 (3.047)
Women’s sports: 3.422 (3.395)
Overall: 3.157 (3.184)
This story was originally published May 12, 2016 at 1:12 PM with the headline "Kentucky teams post 3.157 GPA for spring semester."