Baseball And Women’s Golf Earn American Athletic Conference Academic Awards
July 27, 2016 | Baseball, Women's Golf
GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina baseball and women's golf programs have been honored with the 2015-16 American Athletic Conference Team Academic Excellence Award as announced by Commissioner Mike Aresco Wednesday.
The Team Academic Excellence Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest grade point average for the current academic year.
"This is another great honor for our program," second-year head coach Cliff Godwin said. "Our players, our support staff and our academic advisor, Rebecca Wade, worked extremely hard to achieve a 3.31 team GPA over the past year, which was recognized as the highest male cumulative GPA at ECU and the top baseball GPA in the American Athletic Conference."
Godwin's club, which last week was one of 29 Division I programs to receive the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, sported a collective 3.31 GPA for the 2015-16 year and was the highest team male cumulative GPA at East Carolina.
Under Godwin, a two-time Academic All-America selection at East Carolina, the Pirates registered a program-best 3.42 GPA in the fall of 2015 before following with a 3.20 mark this past spring. Since first tracking team GPAs in the fall of 2003, the baseball team has reached the 2.90 mark 10 times but never 3.0 until the fall of 2015 – Godwin's first year at ECU. In the fall, 28 Pirates were named to the ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll (Chancellor's List/4.0 GPA – 2, Dean's List/3.5 or higher – 14, Honor Roll/3.0 or higher – 12), while in the spring 21 players appeared on the list (Dean's List – 11, Honor Roll – 10).
Juniors Ryan Littlefield and Travis Watkins both earned Chancellor's List status in the fall with a perfect 4.0 GPA, while Littlefield tallied the highest spring semester GPA (3.94) and had the program's top cumulative GPA (3.95).
The women's golf team registered a program-best 3.768 GPA for the academic year marking the third time in school history they captured the top team honor following the 2005-06 (3.575 GPA) and 2006-07 (3.610 GPA) seasons as a member of Conference USA.
"We have been very successful in the classroom throughout the 16-year history of the program," head coach Kevin Williams said. "This marks the third time we have had the highest collective GPA in the conference (C-USA or The American). I'm extremely proud of the work of our team in the classroom and their commitment to academic excellence."
Last week, the Pirates were one of 25 teams recognized by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) for excellence in the classroom garnering a No. 10 national ranking. It was the fifth time in program history that the Pirates stood among the Top 25 following the 2007-08 (21st/3.531), 2010-11 (18th/3.658), 2013-14 (25th/3.635) and 2014-15 (14th/3.66) seasons.
In early July, senior Nicoline Engstroem Skaug and sophomore Lisa Pettersson, along with freshmen Catherine Ashworth and Kate Law, were named 2015-16 NCAA Division I All-America Scholars by the WGCA.
The Team Academic Excellence Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest grade point average for the current academic year.
"This is another great honor for our program," second-year head coach Cliff Godwin said. "Our players, our support staff and our academic advisor, Rebecca Wade, worked extremely hard to achieve a 3.31 team GPA over the past year, which was recognized as the highest male cumulative GPA at ECU and the top baseball GPA in the American Athletic Conference."
Godwin's club, which last week was one of 29 Division I programs to receive the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award, sported a collective 3.31 GPA for the 2015-16 year and was the highest team male cumulative GPA at East Carolina.
Under Godwin, a two-time Academic All-America selection at East Carolina, the Pirates registered a program-best 3.42 GPA in the fall of 2015 before following with a 3.20 mark this past spring. Since first tracking team GPAs in the fall of 2003, the baseball team has reached the 2.90 mark 10 times but never 3.0 until the fall of 2015 – Godwin's first year at ECU. In the fall, 28 Pirates were named to the ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll (Chancellor's List/4.0 GPA – 2, Dean's List/3.5 or higher – 14, Honor Roll/3.0 or higher – 12), while in the spring 21 players appeared on the list (Dean's List – 11, Honor Roll – 10).
Juniors Ryan Littlefield and Travis Watkins both earned Chancellor's List status in the fall with a perfect 4.0 GPA, while Littlefield tallied the highest spring semester GPA (3.94) and had the program's top cumulative GPA (3.95).
The women's golf team registered a program-best 3.768 GPA for the academic year marking the third time in school history they captured the top team honor following the 2005-06 (3.575 GPA) and 2006-07 (3.610 GPA) seasons as a member of Conference USA.
"We have been very successful in the classroom throughout the 16-year history of the program," head coach Kevin Williams said. "This marks the third time we have had the highest collective GPA in the conference (C-USA or The American). I'm extremely proud of the work of our team in the classroom and their commitment to academic excellence."
Last week, the Pirates were one of 25 teams recognized by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) for excellence in the classroom garnering a No. 10 national ranking. It was the fifth time in program history that the Pirates stood among the Top 25 following the 2007-08 (21st/3.531), 2010-11 (18th/3.658), 2013-14 (25th/3.635) and 2014-15 (14th/3.66) seasons.
In early July, senior Nicoline Engstroem Skaug and sophomore Lisa Pettersson, along with freshmen Catherine Ashworth and Kate Law, were named 2015-16 NCAA Division I All-America Scholars by the WGCA.
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