Honoring Excellence in NCAA Division I, II, and III Gymnastics
Pittsburgh, PA (August 18, 2025) – The College of Alaska-Anchorage, Western Michigan College and Texas Girl’s College posted the highest three crew grade-point averages (GPAs) for the 2024-25 tutorial 12 months primarily based on information submitted to the Ladies’s Collegiate Gymnastics Affiliation (WCGA).
Total, 1,218 student-athletes earned a 3.5 or larger GPA on a 4.0 scale, 76.8% of all reporting gymnasts, probably the most ever by complete quantity and proportion (since accessible data in 2008). There have been 302 (19.04%) student-athletes with a 4.0 GPA. This was the fifth 12 months in a row with greater than 1,000 Scholastic All-America winners, and two of the highest 5 universities broke into the lineup for the primary time ever! Throughout all gymnasts this 12 months, the common GPA was a 3.6558 which is the best (since accessible data in 2015), 69 establishments had a crew GPA of a 3.5 or higher, and in ten of the final eleven years, no less than one establishment annually has had 100% of its athletes qualify for this prestigious award.
“Ladies’s collegiate gymnasts embody all the things that’s nice about collegiate athletics. Their capacity to excel within the classroom whereas performing on the highest ranges of athletic competitors is nothing in need of inspiring,” stated Casey Jo MacPherson, Chair of the WCGA Board of Administrators. “These younger ladies are the epitome of the student-athlete perfect, demonstrating self-discipline, resilience, and an unwavering dedication to excellence in all they do. We’re proud to honor these excellent groups and people for his or her continued efforts and success within the classroom!”
The College of Alaska-Anchorage posted the highest crew GPA with a 3.894. Their second consecutive 12 months on the prime of the record, the Seawolves earned the best crew GPA since accessible data in 2015. Head coach Marie-Sophie Boggasch had 19 crew members with a 3.5 or higher GPA (95% of the crew), and 11 of these gymnasts earned a 4.0 GPA.
Western Michigan College took the 2nd place with a crew GPA of three.888. That is the Bronco’s sixth 12 months within the prime 5 (since accessible data in 2015) and so they return after being ranked forty fourth final season. With 100% of their crew reaching a 3.5 or higher, tied for greatest within the nation, Head Coach Penny Jernigan had 7 of her 20 winners earn a 4.0 GPA.
Additionally re-entering the highest 5 this 12 months was Texas Girl’s College, who got here in at quantity three with a 3.8733 general GPA. All 20 student-athletes earned over a 3.5 GPA, whereas 9 earned a 4.0 GPA. Head Coach Lisa Bowerman’s squad tied the nation’s greatest prime proportion honors by having 100% of her crew receiving Scholastic All-America standing.
In fourth was the College of Arizona with a crew GPA of three.823. This was the primary time for Head Coach John Courtroom’s squad to make the highest 5 after ending 2024 in eighth place. 95% of his crew earned accolades with 19 gymnasts incomes above a 3.5, and 7 with a 4.0 GPA.
Rounding out the highest 5 was the College of Washington. Head Coach Jessa Hansen Parker’s crew members earned prime honors for the primary time after ending the 2024 season ranked forty fifth. The Huskies had fifteen gymnasts who posted a 3.5 GPA or higher.
Photograph credit score: UAA/Eddie Bruning
Concerning the WCGA
The Ladies’s Collegiate Gymnastics Affiliation is a membership-led, skilled affiliation representing the nation’s intercollegiate ladies’s gymnastics coaches inside Division I, II & III of the Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation and the Nationwide Affiliation of Intercollegiate Athletics. The WCGA is THE ADVOCATE for ladies’s collegiate gymnastics.
