Eastern Illinois University student-athletes finished the spring semester with success in the class room as 16 of the Panthers 19 intercollegiate teams posted a 3.00 GPA or higher for the spring semester. As an athletic department EIU had an overall team GPA of 3.25 with 69% of its student-athletes posting a 3.00 or higher GPA for the semester. The 3.25 overall team GPA is the highest ever for the entire department.
The top team in terms of GPA was the women’s tennis team with a 3.79 GPA, followed by men’s cross country with a 3.45 GPA, women’s golf at 3.73, women’s cross country at 3.70, women’s soccer at 3.56 and women’s rugby at 3.53. EIU had 77 student-athletes earn a 4.00 GPA for the semester with a total of 267 athletes posting a 3.00 or higher mark.
