ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights athletic teams have compiled their first semester grade point averages with outstanding results.
The Saints' athletic department includes 19 sports teams and 530 student-athletes. Those student-athletes combined for a cumulative grade-point average of 2.94. The 163 women’s athletes combined for an average of 3.15, while the men came in at 2.85.
The SHU softball team achieved the highest team average with a GPA of 3.42. The women’s golf team came in with an average of 3.35, while the men’s and women’s soccer teams achieved 3.34 and 3.33 averages, respectively. The men’s bowling, women’s bowling, men’s golf, women’s lacrosse, women’s track and field, baseball and women’s basketball squads all had team GPAs above the 3.0 mark.
Siena Heights Athletic Director Fred Smith commented, “We are incredibly proud of our professors, coaches, and most of all our student-athletes. Siena Heights Athletics has grown to over 500 athletes for the first time in school history. It is very rewarding to know that we have not outgrown the performance in the classroom and the development of our students as people.”