Women's cross-country earns Div. I's best GPA
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March 12, 2008

Women's cross-country earns Div. I's best GPA

Congrats to USF's women's cross-country team, which posted the highest team grade-point average out of 325 Division I schools last season, according to the U.S. Track and Field Cross-Country Coaches Association.

The Bulls earned a team GPA of 3.78, which edged Belmont (3.77) for the highest in Division I. Setting the pace for USF with 4.0 GPAs were five runners: Lisa Giblin, Kaley Matthews (Largo), Maressa Pinzini, Emily Wakley and Rebecca Zuhlke.

"To have earned the No. 1 GPA in the United States is a great honor for our women's cross country program, the athletic department and the University of South Florida," USF coach Warren Bye said in a statement. "We take great pride in our academics. I am very proud of the work these young women have done in the classroom."

Other state programs whose women's cross-country teams were honored for team GPAs of 3.0 or higher were Florida (3.44), Florida State (3.29), Central Florida (3.25) and Florida International (3.07); Florida (3.23)was the only state school to have its men's team recognized.

In Division II, the University of Tampa's women's cross-country team ranked fifth with a 3.73 GPA; UT's men's team ranked eighth with a 3.48.

Comments

Greg:

Is there a link to the full list?

I have the list, but it's an XLS file. Who are you curious about?

That is awesome. X-Country women are smarter!

Where is Bucknell on that list?

Norb, looks as though Bucknell's teams did not get a 3.0 GPA and as a result did not make the USTFCCCA honor roll.

Very impressed by USF women.

Cross Country GPAs were higher at Bucknell back in my day, 20 years ago. I remember my 3.2 pulling the average down on a team ranked nationally in top 25.

I've had a few classes with Emily Wakley. Very intelligent and hard-working.

It is good that some of our athletic programs understand that classes are most important.

Where did USF men's team place?

USF's men didn't have a GPA of 3.0 or higher, so they weren't among the schools listed by the USTFCCCA.

I'll admit, I'm responding as much because I like typing USTFCCCA, easily the bulkiest abbreviation on earth.

The Knights men are better than the Bulls.

Bulkiest abbreviation? Maybe.

But no where near as cool as ADAA:

The American Dogdeball Association of America

So if I have this right, the UCF argument has devolved to "Our men's cross-country team has a higher grade-point average." That looks solid on a T-shirt.

It's a lot better when you use the abbreviation GPA.

"I'll admit, I'm responding as much because I like typing USTFCCCA, easily the bulkiest abbreviation on earth." Greg Auman

Isn't USTFCCCA an acronym rather than an abbreviation?

One of those things where technically, an acronym is supposed to be sounded as a word and not spelled out; NATO and AIDS and scuba and sonar are acronyms, not AFL-CIO or ESPN. You hear acronym used for any collection of letters a lot these days.

(If you're sounding out USTFCCCA as a word, you could call it an acronym. I'd make the third "c" a silent one.)

uss-tuff-kah-kah

That would be my acronym.

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