A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll
NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – The Atlantic 10 Conference announced a league record 3,761 student-athletes received Commissioner's Honor Roll distinction in the 2019-20 academic year. The nearly 3,800 student-athletes represents 71 percent of all student-athletes in 21 Atlantic 10 sponsored sports.
Designed to recognize excellence in the classroom, a student-athlete in an Atlantic 10-sponsored sport must have a 3.0 GPA for the academic year to be selected for the Commissioner's Honor Roll. Freshmen and graduate students are eligible to receive the award.
The Patriots had the third-most honorees with a department record 315 student-athletes honored, topping last year's record of 260. Fordham had the most honorees with 323, followed by Saint Joseph's with 320. Davidson (314) and Massachusetts (300) finished out the top five.
Two teams, women's volleyball and women's tennis, each had 100 percent of its roster earn the honor. Softball, women's track and field, and rowing each had more than 90 percent of its roster earn the academic accolade.
There were 238 student-athletes that achieved a 4.0 GPA in 2019-20, and 2,379 student-athletes (45 percent of all A-10 student-athletes) with a 3.5 GPA or better. Additionally, the average number of honorees per school was 269, also a conference record.
There were 13 A-10 sports with 70 percent or more of the total student-athletes that are Commissioner's Honor Roll recipients. The top three women's sports were women's swimming & diving (an incredible 91.65 percent of student-athletes earned the academic distinction), field hockey (88.97 percent) and women's lacrosse (88.04 percent). The top three men's sports are men's golf (83.33 percent), men's tennis (78.15 percent) and men's swimming & diving (76.74).
The record-setting Commissioner's Honor Roll showcases the robust academic success for Atlantic 10 institutions and student-athletes. This success was also highlighted in 2019-20 by the NCAA, with the league posting a record 94 percent graduate rate (ranked third among all 32 Division I conferences), having 67 programs earn NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition (ranked fifth among all 32 Division I conferences).
