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It's report card time

June 27, 2006

UNM just released the spring semester grades for all sports, and Lobo athletes set a record for best average GPA in all sports.
The combined GPA for athletes competing UNM's 21 athletics program was 3.08, a good solid B and exceeded the previous high of 3.05 set in fall 2004. It also marked the eighth consecutive semester time the all sports GPA was 3.02 or better.
No jokes from anyone at Trib about any basketball players whose GPAs are higher than their scoring averages because we don't want to have to reveal our college GPAs or pickup game scoring averages.
Below I will list the grades broken down by sport, but the ones this blog cares about are football at 2.66 and women's basketball at 3.50. It was football's second-highest GPA, with the previous record a 2.69 in the spring 2003. The women were second only to men's skiing, whose athletes posted a 3.53. The women's GPA was the second-highest, with the program's best mark a 3.52 in fall 2002.

Men
Baseball 2.87
Basketball 2.97
Football 2.66
Golf 2.91
Skiing 3.53
Soccer 3.28
Tennis 3.38
Track* 3.04

Women
Basketball 3.50
Golf 3.40
Skiing 3.37
Soccer 3.28
Softball 2.96
Swimming 3.29
Tennis 3.29
Track* 3.32
Volleyball 3.43

Total 3.08

* Includes cross country, indoor track and outdoor track

Here's the UNM press release on the GPAs if you wanna read the school's spin on the grades.

Posted by ilimon at 04:29 PM |

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Posted by: Andrew Leo Lopez | June 27, 2006 06:15 PM

For many years, with but few exceptions the Lobo women's basketball team are known for their smarts. To average so impressively, must come a host of valued traits with their smarts. Among those intangible qualities must come time management, focus, dedication, and a heavy dose of self-discipline. This old grad '70 is pleased that the players' majors are pretty tough ones as well.
Note also that the team's highest GPA came in the Fall of 2002. That year also saw Chrystal Garcia, Melissa Forrest, Lindsay Arndt,Tiana Johnson, and the adopted New Mexican Abby Letz on a roster of fifteen. The GPA for this year came from a very abreviated roster. It is sneaky for the High Schoolers [it is a proper noun] to short the roster to boost the team's GPA.
Note also that the 2002-03 season saw the highest sales of season tickets and average attendance. The later was 11,894.
Our girls are wonderful, but the dearth of New Mexicans is souring the New Mexico Tribe and the blame must lie squarely at the feat of the High Schoolers and the Athletic Director.
It cannot be acceptable to many of the New Mexico Tribe for the High Schoolers to prefer empty roster positions to having New Mexicans on the team.

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