{"id":267635,"date":"2026-05-12T05:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267635\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:38:41","slug":"gators-perform-well-in-classroom-during-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267635\/","title":{"rendered":"Gators Perform Well in Classroom During Academic Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 University of Florida student-athletes performed well in the academic arena this spring, with collectively earning a 3.46 term grade point average.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the 2025-26 academic year, UF student-athletes posted a record 3.43 cumulative GPA. The previous high of 3.405 was earned in 2024-25.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA GPA of 3.0 or higher was turned in by 18 programs this spring with 84 percent of the student-athletes reaching that mark.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThrough\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/2023\/5\/1\/gators-experience.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/2023\/5\/1\/gators-experience.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gators Experience program<\/a>, Florida student-athletes logged 3,732 community service hours. This includes purchasing and distributing more than 400 new pairs of shoes and socks to children in the Gainesville community earlier in December for the annual Gator Tracks program and playing host to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GatorsExp\/status\/2038703031903039600?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">annual Field Day for area children<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn 2025-26, 75 graduated with a bachelor&#8217;s degrees while another 14 earned a master&#8217;s or advanced degree. Thirty graduated with honors.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGators Classroom Success Numbers<br \/>\nFour programs set or matched GPA records this past semester: football (3.60), men&#8217;s golf (3.50), women&#8217;s basketball (3.34) and men&#8217;s basketball (3.31).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFootball&#8217;s record 3.60 GPA led all men&#8217;s team this spring. It is the second consecutive semester football led the men&#8217;s teams. Sharing the high spring GPA for women&#8217;s team at 3.70 are golf and swimming &amp; diving.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe leaders for 2025-26 cumulative team GPAs are:<br \/>\nMen:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Football (3.61 cumulative)<br \/>\nWomen:\u00a0\u00a0 Gymnastics and Tennis (3.70 cumulative)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUF Student-Athlete Spring 2026 Semester Highlights<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t18 programs earned a 3.0 or better spring semester GPA&#13;<br \/>\n\tOverall Male Term GPA \u2013 3.41 (Record)&#13;<br \/>\n\tOverall Male Cumulative GPA \u2013 3.31&#13;<br \/>\n\tOverall Female Term GPA \u2013 3.52 (Record)&#13;<br \/>\n\tOverall Female Cumulative GPA \u2013 3.50&#13;<br \/>\n\t4.0 spring 2026 GPA by 67 student-athletes from 14 different teams&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 University of Florida student-athletes performed well in the academic arena this spring, with collectively earning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-267635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}