George Mason A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll

WASHINGTON – The Atlantic 10 Conference announced Thursday that a record 4,155 student-athletes received Commissioner's Honor Roll distinction for 2023-24 academic year. George Mason ranked third among the 15-team conference members with 327 student-athletes honored.
 
The Patriots had 255 student-athletes with a 3.5 GPA or better, including 68 with a 4.0 GPA. 

George Mason's number of Atlantic 10 honorees is the second highest in department history to the 332 earning the distinction in 2020-21. Last year 287 Patriots were named to the honor roll.

This is the highest total in league history and is the fifth year in a row the total number of honorees has topped 3,500. The total surpasses the record set in 2023-24 of 3,953 honorees. This year there were a record 413 student-athletes that achieved a 4.0 GPA, representing 10 percent of the total number of honorees. Additionally, 65 percent of the honorees, equaling 2,700 student-athletes, recorded a 3.5 GPA or better for the academic year. The league also set a record with an average 277 honorees per school.
 
Massachusetts had the most honorees with 370, followed by Fordham with 342. George Mason was third with 327 student-athletes honored, and Davidson (319) and Saint Joseph's (315) finished out the top five. The class is made up of 18.4 percent (766 total honorees) first year students, 22.8 percent (949 total) sophomores, 21.8 percent (908 total) juniors and 27.41percent (1,130 total) seniors. There were 389 graduate students honored, comprising 9.3 percent of the class.
 
Designed to recognize excellence in the classroom, a student-athlete in an Atlantic 10-sponsored sport at a full member institution must have a combined fall and spring semester grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the academic year to be selected for the Commissioner's Honor Roll. Both freshmen and graduate students are eligible to receive the award. In each of the last seven years, the league honored over 3,000 student-athletes per year.