Lobo Student-Athletes Break GPA Records Again
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — This never gets old, but please, let us know if you’ve heard this one before. Lobo student-athletes had another record-setting semester in the classroom.
The athletic department with the most Mountain West championships since COVID once again proved it’s not just excellent on the fields of play. Lobo student-athletes, winners of 14 Mountain West championships since the spring of 2021 and owners of four NCAA top 10 finishes, recorded a 3.41 overall GPA, the best ever in a non-COVID semester. UNM has grade history for the past 73 semesters, back to 1986, and the grade were bolstered by some tremendous semesters in the classroom.
The 3.41 marked the 30th straight semester that Lobo student-athletes turned in at least a 3.0 GPA, dating back to the fall of 2008. Overall, 84 student-athletes recorded a 4.0 or better GPA (up 11 from last fall) and 308 recorded a 3.0 or better GPA (up 33 from last spring a year ago). Additionally, UNM’s female student-athletes turned in a 3.59 GPA, the 25th straight semester with at least a 3.4 GPA and the eighth straight with a 3.5 GPA. The 3.59 was the second-best semester in department history on the women’s side, and the best in a non-COVID semester.
UNM’s male student-athletes had a 3.25 GPA, the 23rd semester in the last 24 with at least a 3.0 GPA, and it was also the second-best semester in department history, and the best in a non-COVID semester.
The women’s golf team, which has earned four consecutive Academic National Championships, can probably lock in a fifth. The team recorded a 4.02 GPA in the spring, the third-best semester for any team in school history, and it pairs up with the record 4.08 the team turned in for the fall semester, which was the highest team GPA in the history of UNM Athletics. The 4.02 is just the seventh time that a program has ever recorded a 4.00 or better, and women’s golf has now done it four times. The team also finished ninth in the NCAA Championships.
Other highlights on the women’s side include UNM’s Mountain West regular season championship soccer team earning a 3.87 GPA, their highest non-COVID semester in program history. In all, four of the eight women’s programs earned a top-five program GPA in the semester (golf, soccer, volleyball and softball) and seven of the eight had a 3.48 or better.
On the men’s side, Lobo baseball turned in a 3.65 GPA for the second straight semester to lead all men’s teams. It marked the fourth semester for the program under head coach Tod Brown, and the top four semester GPAs for the program in school history have come in his time. After having never done so since 1986, the baseball team has now turned in the best semester GPA on the men’s side in back-to-back semesters. Five of the six men’s programs turned in improved GPA’s from the fall. It was a historic semester for the pairing of football and men’s basketball, which both topped 3.0 in the same semester for the first time other than the COVID-semester. Football’s 3.05 GPA is the program’s second-best ever and best non-COVID semester, and basketball’s 3.11 is tied for the third-best ever, and second-best non-COVID semester. Four programs, baseball, football, basketball and track & field/cross country turned in top-five semesters for their respective sports.