Athletes post best-ever academic semester

Mississippi State student-athletes posted their best-ever group grade-point average during the 1998 spring semester.

Men and women athletes recorded an aggregate 2.90 grade-point average this past spring, surpassing the previous record of 2.85 set in fall 1996.

All six men's sports raised their GPA from last fall, highlighted by the men's golf program, which recorded a composite 3.38 GPA, the highest ever by a male sport.

For the fourth-straight semester, the women's program recorded its highest-ever academic showing, posting a 3.23. The women's tennis team turned in a 3.72 GPA, the highest team academic record ever. Seven of the eight women's tennis players made either Dean's Scholar or President's Scholar in the spring, and for the second consecutive semester, six of the seven women's sports achieved a team GPA of 3.00 or better.

Overall, a record 61 scholarship men and women athletes made either Dean's Scholar or President's Scholar, and 127 of 245 scholarship athletes recorded 3.00 GPAs or higher.