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UTC athletic department celebrates record GPA, glowing progress scores

Staff file / UTC athletic director Mark Wharton said he was "was blown away by the academic numbers" the school's student-athletes produced during the recently completed spring semester.
Staff file / UTC athletic director Mark Wharton said he was "was blown away by the academic numbers" the school's student-athletes produced during the recently completed spring semester. Staff file / UTC athletic director Mark Wharton said he was "was blown away by the academic numbers" the school's student-athletes produced during the recently completed spring semester.

By Lindsey Young 4 min read

Even the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t keep the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic program from succeeding.

UTC recently learned its sports teams had set another program record for overall grade point average and nine of UTC’s programs received perfect NCAA Academic Progress Rate scores.

For the fourth semester in a row, the Mocs posted a record performance for overall GPA with a 3.421, shattering the mark of 3.197 set in the fall semester. Among individual UTC programs, the women’s cross country team led the way with a 3.81 overall GPA and those runners also set a program record with 11 student-athletes posting a 4.0 GPA.

Overall the Mocs had school records with 77 student-athletes earning a 4.0 GPA, 196 making the dean’s list with at least a 3.2 and 226 making the athletic director’s honor roll with a 3.0 or better.

Every team had a GPA of 3.0 or better, with football cracking the barrier for the first time at 3.14. Volleyball (3.80), women’s cross country/track & field (3.79), women’s tennis (3.78), men’s tennis (3.65), women’s basketball (3.64), men’s basketball (3.36) and wrestling (3.23) all set program GPA marks in the spring.