Athletics Celebrates Outstanding 2022-23 Academic Year
5/26/2023 9:31:00 AM | General
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – In a title-driven 2022-23 season which saw Southeast Missouri win an unprecedented eight Ohio Valley Conference championships, Redhawk teams complemented their remarkable competitive success with another great year in the classroom.
The spring semester consisted of 12 sports achieving grade point averages over 3.0. SEMO's football team posted its highest mark in program history with a 3.05 GPA and the women's cross country team did the same with its department-high 3.84 GPA.
Women's tennis (3.81), women's soccer (3.74), women's gymnastics (3.72), men's cross country (3.69), women's track & field (3.50), softball (3.50), men's track & field (3.45), volleyball (3.27), women's basketball (3.19) and baseball (3.10) completed the teams with over 3.0 GPAs.
Overall, SEMO's Department of Athletics finished the spring semester with a 3.34 GPA and, for the year, accumulated a 3.35.
A total of 76 student-athletes received their degrees, including 18 in the fall and a record 58 in the spring. Additionally, 121 student-athletes made either the Dean's or President's Lists at SEMO.
The Redhawks began the 2022-23 campaign by registering a 3.36 GPA in the fall, its highest fall semester GPA in seven years. Eleven teams turned in a GPA of 3.1 or better that semester.
SEMO's baseball (3.45), men's cross country (3.68), men's track & field (3.47) and football (2.97) teams all achieved their best fall term GPAs ever.
The women's cross country team led the Department of Athletics with a 3.76 GPA in the fall. Soccer (3.75), men's cross country, gymnastics (3.66) and softball (3.62) rounded out the top five marks. Women's tennis (3.53), women's track & field (3.52), men's track & field (3.47), baseball, women's basketball (3.30) and volleyball (3.18) closed out the teams with GPAs higher than 3.1.
Several student-athletes were presented with distinguished academic honors throughout the year, including Paige Halliwill (Softball, 2022-23 Sport Management Major of the Year winner by Sport Management faculty), Jolie Miller (Gymnastics, 2022-23 Health Sciences Major of the Year winner by Health Sciences faculty), Molly Maxwell (Gymnastics, 2022-23 Dietetics Major of the Year by Nutrition faculty), Tayler Gudde (Track & Field, 1st at the Student Research Conference Competition with Undergraduate Poster Presentation) and Taylor Nelson (Women's Soccer, Lorberg Award for Excellence in Academics). Baseball's Corbin Guthman was the recipient of the Jewel Award and both Maxwell (Gymnastics) and Sundancer Madeline Arledge won the Trombetta Award.
The spring semester consisted of 12 sports achieving grade point averages over 3.0. SEMO's football team posted its highest mark in program history with a 3.05 GPA and the women's cross country team did the same with its department-high 3.84 GPA.
Women's tennis (3.81), women's soccer (3.74), women's gymnastics (3.72), men's cross country (3.69), women's track & field (3.50), softball (3.50), men's track & field (3.45), volleyball (3.27), women's basketball (3.19) and baseball (3.10) completed the teams with over 3.0 GPAs.
Overall, SEMO's Department of Athletics finished the spring semester with a 3.34 GPA and, for the year, accumulated a 3.35.
A total of 76 student-athletes received their degrees, including 18 in the fall and a record 58 in the spring. Additionally, 121 student-athletes made either the Dean's or President's Lists at SEMO.
The Redhawks began the 2022-23 campaign by registering a 3.36 GPA in the fall, its highest fall semester GPA in seven years. Eleven teams turned in a GPA of 3.1 or better that semester.
SEMO's baseball (3.45), men's cross country (3.68), men's track & field (3.47) and football (2.97) teams all achieved their best fall term GPAs ever.
The women's cross country team led the Department of Athletics with a 3.76 GPA in the fall. Soccer (3.75), men's cross country, gymnastics (3.66) and softball (3.62) rounded out the top five marks. Women's tennis (3.53), women's track & field (3.52), men's track & field (3.47), baseball, women's basketball (3.30) and volleyball (3.18) closed out the teams with GPAs higher than 3.1.
Several student-athletes were presented with distinguished academic honors throughout the year, including Paige Halliwill (Softball, 2022-23 Sport Management Major of the Year winner by Sport Management faculty), Jolie Miller (Gymnastics, 2022-23 Health Sciences Major of the Year winner by Health Sciences faculty), Molly Maxwell (Gymnastics, 2022-23 Dietetics Major of the Year by Nutrition faculty), Tayler Gudde (Track & Field, 1st at the Student Research Conference Competition with Undergraduate Poster Presentation) and Taylor Nelson (Women's Soccer, Lorberg Award for Excellence in Academics). Baseball's Corbin Guthman was the recipient of the Jewel Award and both Maxwell (Gymnastics) and Sundancer Madeline Arledge won the Trombetta Award.
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