July 21, 2008
According to Sunday’s edition of the Albuquerque Journal, the story on the University of New Mexico Athletics Department grade-point-average for the 2008 spring semester was the most popular story on the paper’s website for the week.
Lobos Set Grades Record, written by Rick Wright, was the most popular online story on www.ABQJournal.com according to page 2A of Sunday’s paper.
The combined grade point average of the Lobos’ 21 athletics programs for the 2008 spring semester was a school-record 3.11 according to the UNM registrar’s office. UNM’s previous high was 3.08 in the 2006 spring semester. The Lobos have now reached a G.P.A. of 3.00 or better for 11 of the last 12 semesters. UNM began tracking grades in the fall of 1988.
After posting a 2.98 in the fall of 2007, the Lobos 3.11 showed their biggest improvement since a jump from 2.41 to 2.67 between the fall of 1988 and the spring of 1989.
Football (2.79), men’s skiing (3.75) and swimming and diving (3.50) each posted program highs for G.P.A. while women’s soccer (3.47) and women’s tennis (3.65) had their second highest total. Men’s basketball (2.87) and women’s golf (3.54) had their third best total. Men’s basketball also made the biggest jump from the 2006 spring semester, improving 24% from their 2.30 G.P.A. posted a year ago.