Eastern Illinois University student-athletes finished the semester with success in the classroom as 13 of the Panthers intercollegiate teams posted a 3.00 GPA or higher for the spring semester. As an athletic department EIU had an overall team GPA of 3.14 with 228 of its student-athletes posting a 3.00 or higher GPA for the semester.
The top team in terms of GPA was the men’s tennis team with a 3.74 GPA. Softball and women’s cross country were the top women’s squads for the semester with a 3.47 GPA. Women’s basketball and women’s swimming rounded out the top five teams with top GPA’s for the semester.
EIU had 63 student-athletes earn a 4.00 GPA for the semester.
In addition, the NCAA released its APR numbers for schools with EIU having five programs post a perfect 1,000 score for the most recent time frame for data. Women’s tennis, women’s swimming, women’s golf, men’s tennis and men’s golf all posted the perfect scores.
