{"id":32720,"date":"2025-07-30T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32720\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:25:08","slug":"womens-golf-earns-american-academic-excellence-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32720\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Golf Earns American Academic Excellence Nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVING &#8211; The UNT women&#8217;s golf program won an American Team Academic Excellence Award and more than 200 Mean Green student-athletes earned AAC All-Academic honors for the 2024-25 year, the league announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mean Green Women&#8217;s Golf claimed the Academic Excellence Award for having the highest team GPA\u00a0in the conference in its respective sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American Team Academic Excellence Award selections are made by the conference&#8217;s faculty athletics representatives. The winning teams were chosen based on the 2024-25 GPA of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution&#8217;s roster at the end of the academic year, weighing each student&#8217;s GPA by credit-hour completed. The women&#8217;s golf program posted a 3.941 for the 2024-25 school year.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 209 Mean Green student-athletes earned All-Academic nods. To be eligible for the All-Academic team, a nominee must have attained a minimum GPA of 3.00 for the preceding academic year, and completed a minimum of two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters of academic work, with a total of 18 semester or 27 quarter credits, not including remedial courses.<\/p>\n<p>The Mean Green had standout academic numbers across all sports, as they were tied for second in the conference with nine\u00a0men&#8217;s golfers named to the all-academic team, tied for third in women&#8217;s golf with eight (its entire roster), tied for third in swimming and diving with 25, tied for third in women&#8217;s tennis with eight and third in both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country with 12 and 13, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVING &#8211; The UNT women&#8217;s golf program won an American Team Academic Excellence Award and more than 200&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-32720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}