UNT Athletics: Student-Athletes Earn Highest Semester GPA Ever

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DENTON – This past spring UNT student-athletes earned the highest semester grade point average in the department's history.

North Texas and its 337 student-athletes had a combined 3.280 GPA in the spring of 2024 and a 3.234 cumulative GPA over the entire school year. It marked UNT's 10th consecutive semester of a 3.0-plus department wide GPA.

A department best 71 percent of all student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or higher and four Mean Green teams achieved their respective highest semester GPA ever: football, men's track and field, soccer and softball. 

Ten teams posted a semester GPA above a 3.2 with women's golf leading the way at 3.810. Its third straight semester of achieving the highest team grade point average. Six teams had at least 90 percent of its roster earn a 3.0 or better GPA: men's golf, women's cross country, women's golf, swim and dive, soccer and tennis.

Nine North Texas teams improved on their semester GPA from the fall of 2023 to the spring of 2024. Eight North Texas teams have an active streak of 10 consecutive semesters with a 3.0 or better GPA. Mean Green women's tennis has now had a 3.0 or better GPA in 25 straight semesters.

Fifty-four Mean Green student-athletes earned a 4.0 GPA in the spring to receive Presidents List honors and 40 UNT student-athletes graduated in the spring.

North Texas freshmen this year made a smooth transition from high school to college as they achieved a 3.189 GPA in the spring, setting a solid bar moving forward. UNT has improved on its department GPA in each of the last four semesters and has improved on the previous department GPA in eight of the last nine semesters.

All data excludes spring of 2020 semester when the COVID pandemic shutdown in-person school during the middle of the semester.