Clemson Sets Records in the Classroom

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Clemson, SC -- Clemson University student-athletes posted a 2.79 GPA in the

classroom for the first semester, the highest average on record.

Addtionally, 251 student-athletes, managers and trainers achieved honor

roll status, the highest total on record. Statistics were released by the

student-athlete enrichment staff at Vickery Hall Staff on Friday.

The 2.79 GPA for the student-athletes was just .03 off the figure

for the Clemson student body overall (2.82).

Five different teams earned their highest fall semester GPA on

record, including the Clemson football team, which had a 2.46 team GPA.

That 2.46 figure was the second highest on record for any semester, second

only to the 2.49 posted by Tommy Bowden's team in the spring semester of

last year.

The Clemson football team had 41 players earn at least a 3.0 for

the first semester, the highest total on record. Among the players who

were on the list were first-team Academic All-Americans Kyle Young and Chad

Carson. Clemson was the only Division I program in the nation to have two

first-team Academic All-Americans in 2000. Seven starters this past

season, Young, Carson, Justin Watts, Will Merritt, John McDermott, Jackie

Robinson and Braxton K. Williams, made the academic honor roll.

Other sports programs with their highest fall semester on record

were the golf team (3.19), women's track team (3.09), women's soccer squad

(3.05) and men's soccer team (2.96). In fact, the figures posted by the

golf team, women's track and womens soccer teams were the highest for any

semester.

It was an especially outstanding year for the women's teams at

Clemson. The six Clemson women's programs had an overall GPA of 3.00,

above the 2.97 for all women in the student body. Five of the six

programs had a GPa of 3.0 or better, led by the women's tennis team's 3.18.

	Sport	                GPA


	Baseball	        2.71


	Men's Basketball	2.35


	Women's Basketball	2.63


	Football	        2.46


	Golf	                3.19


	Rowing	                3.10


	Men's Soccer	        2.96


	Women's Soccer	        3.05


	Men's Swimming	        2.49


	Women's Swimming	3.10


	Men's Tennis	        2.69


	Women's Tennis	        3.18


	Men's Track	        2.76


	Women's Track	        3.09


	Volleyball	        2.92


	Overall	                2.79


	Student Body	        2.82

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