Grizzlies set new academic standards

Montana's 329 student-athletes set a pair of academic records with their performance in the classroom during the fall semester.

The Grizzlies had a collective term GPA of 3.23, the highest on record, topping the 3.19 they had for the fall 2018 semester. That helped up their average cumulative GPA to 3.26, also the best on record.

Team highlights:

* The department was led by its tennis programs, with coach Steve Ascher's women's team posting a 3.75 fall GPA, tied for the fifth-highest term GPA ever recorded by a Montana team.

* Ascher's Grizzlies did so while taking the heaviest class load of any team in the department, an average of 16.3 credits in the fall.

* Coach Jason Brown's men's team came in at 3.63, making it seven straight semesters for that program with a term GPA above 3.5.

* Of the women's and men's tennis teams' 17 student-athletes, all 17 had a GPA of 3.0 or better in the fall, with 11 making the Dean's List.

* The women's cross country team had a fall GPA of 3.5, the 14th time that program has had a term GPA of 3.5 or better since records began being kept in 1999.

* The soccer and women's basketball programs both had fall GPAs of 3.49.

* That made it 13 straight semesters at 3.3 or better for the soccer team, which had 24 of its 25 players at 3.0 or better for the fall, while the Grizzlies were winning a Big Sky Conference championship.

* The women's basketball team had its second-best semester ever at 3.49. All 12 Lady Griz had a fall GPA of 3.0 or better.

* Women's track and field had another strong showing, with 44 of its 49 athletes coming in at 3.0 or better for the fall semester, 22 making the Dean's List. The team had an average GPA of 3.46.

* Softball, at 3.33, made it five consecutive semesters at 3.3 or better. Women's golf had a term GPA of 3.27, making it 11 straight semesters at 3.2 or better.

* After breaking through the 3.0 barrier for the first time in the fall of 2018, the Montana football team has remained there for three straight semesters, coming in at 3.08 in the fall, its best mark ever.

* Despite advancing to the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs, which had the Grizzlies practicing right through finals week, 61 of them checked in with a 3.0 GPA or better, with 25 making the Dean's List.

* The men's track and field program, at 3.06, also had a fall semester GPA better than 3.0.

University of Montana Athletics

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