Goldey-Beacom Boasts 10 Teams With At Least A 3.0 GPA

General | 9/2/2020 12:00:00 AM

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Goldey-Beacom once again stood in the spotlight with 10 of its teams recording at least a 3.0 grade-point average during the 2019-20 academic year.

In figures just released by the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, that total puts the Lightning tied for seventh among the 14-team league. Women's tennis was tops at GBC with a 3.58 GPA, followed by softball (3.39), women's basketball (3.35), women's soccer (3.35), men's golf (3.28), men's cross country (3.24), baseball (3.22), men's track & field (3.09), volleyball (3.08) and women's cross country (3.06).

These 10 teams make up the 83 in the conference out of 102 (81 percent) who had a 3.0 GPA. Goldey-Beacom also is one of 11 schools in the league which had at least 50 percent of its teams record a minimum 3.0 GPA.

Among the individual success, Rose Benjamin (North East, MD), fellow women's soccer junior Line Kristoffersen (Bergen, Norway) and volleyball junior Lindsay Przywara (Williamstown, NJ) all were tabbed CoSIDA Academic All-District a second straight year.

Benjamin and softball senior Dianna Gatto (Jefferson, NJ) also were their sport's winner of the CACC Top XVI Award for having the top GPA at the finals site of each conference tournament. Since spring championships were canceled this year, the criteria was altered to still recognize the academic achievements of student-athletes.

Goldey-Beacom also had 48 student-athletes picked to the CACC Academic Honor Roll and saw nine end the year with a cumulative 4.0 GPA. GBC also sports a 3.13 GPA among its student-athletes, higher than the College's GPA among non student-athletes.

"The entire Goldey-Beacom community takes great pride in the academic achievements of our student-athletes," said Senior Woman Administrator/Assistant Director of Athletics Bethann Burke, who handles academic affairs for the department. "The success attained this past year is a testament to the commitment of our student-athletes, support staff, and faculty."

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