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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lee Enterprises

Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:01 PM CST
EIU athletes combine for 3.04 GPA

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CHARLESTON -- With the close of the fall semester Eastern Illinois University student-athletes have once again excelled both in their sports and in the class room. EIU student-athletes had a combined 3.04 grade point average for the fall semester with 54 percent of the Panthers 449 student-athletes earning a 3.0 or better GPA. Forty one of those student-athletes earned a 4.0 while 84 additional competitors had between a 3.5 and 3.99 GPA.

Women’s soccer had the highest overall GPA for an EIU sport with the team posting a 3.4 team GPA for the semester. Women’s basketball and women’s golf were just behind with a 3.39 average. Men’s tennis was the highest men’s team sport with a 3.34. All told 13 team sports maintained a 3.0 or higher team GPA. The male team average was 2.92 while the women’s team average was 3.16.

During the course of the semester several individual student-athletes were honored for their academic success on a national and regional level. Tim Kelly and Jon Rueter of the football team both earned Academic All-District recognition while Rueter was named to the Academic All-Star team and a finalist for the NACDA Post Graduate Scholarship. Women’s soccer players Meghan Ryon and Trisha Walter both earned second team Academic All-District honors while men’s soccer player Adam Gartner was a first team Academic All-District selection.

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