MSU Student-Athletes Set School-Year Classroom Mark
STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State's men and women athletes finished the 2010 spring semester with an aggregate 2.93 grade point average which, coupled with the 2.99 GPA achieved this past fall, is the highest combined mark for Bulldog student-athletes in school history.
State's men's sport programs posted a 2.70 GPA for the term, while the women's program averaged a 3.23 classroom mark, its third-highest average in school history.
Men's tennis and softball recorded the highest male and female team sport GPAs with 3.75 and 3.54 average grades, respectively. For tennis, it was its second-highest mark ever; softball broke its previous all-time record, set last fall.
Additionally, volleyball established a sport best with a 3.49 GPA, while women's sports basketball (3.02), golf (3.41), soccer (3.22) and tennis (3.52) all surpassed the 3.0 mark and improved their team GPA from last fall.
Overall, 72 scholarship student-athletes made either the Dean's Scholar (3.5) or President's Scholar (3.8) list. In addition, 137 of the 275 scholarship student-athletes (50 percent) recorded a 3.0 GPA or better during the fall.
The MSU athletic academic office began tracking scholarship student-athlete grades for comparative purposes in 1993.