Marshall University Athletics
Women's Golf Earns C-USA Sport Academic Award
7/27/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
July 27, 2009
IRVING, Texas - Rice University has earned the Conference USA Institutional Excellence Award for the fourth straight year, as announced by Commissioner Britton Banowsky today.
The Institutional Excellence Award is given to the C-USA institution with the highest grade point average during the current academic year for all student-athletes in conference sponsored sports. Rice student-athletes combined for an annual GPA of 3.099, which is the highest in the Owls' four-year run.
The Sport Academic Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest GPA for the current academic year. Rice and Tulsa each produced three different teams with the highest GPA for their respective sport. The Rice women's tennis team posted the highest annual GPA of any sport at 3.748. The Tulsa men's cross country team and Memphis women's soccer team claimed their respective sport's academic award, while also earning a conference title on the course and on the field. Eight teams were repeat winners from a season ago, while nine teams showed marked improvement in their composite GPA. The following is a list of all the Sports Academic award honorees:
Sport - Recipient - GPA
Baseball UCF - 3.174
Men's Basketball - Tulane - 2.745
Women's Basketball - UTEP - 2.913
Men's Cross Country - Tulsa - 3.411
Women's Cross Country - Tulsa - 3.660
Football - Rice - 2.843
Men's Golf - East Carolina - 3.590
Women's Golf - Marshall - 3.520
Men's Soccer - *South Carolina - 3.233
Women's Soccer - Memphis - 3.573
Softball - East Carolina - 3.306
Women's Swimming - Rice - 3.531
Men's Tennis - Southern Miss - 3.550
Women's Tennis - Rice - 3.748
Men's Track and Field - Tulane - 3.254
Women's Track and Field - Tulsa - 3.409
Volleyball - Memphis - 3.558
*Affiliate member for men's soccer
Marshall's women's golf team has earned the Conference USA Sport Academic Award with a collective GPA of 3.520.
MU Coach Meredith Knight Rowsey said "I'm proud of them for excelling in the classroom."
This marks the third consecutive year that The Herds women's golf team has won the C-USA Academic Award.
