Fayetteville State College’s student-athletes achieved their highest grade level ever this previous semester. The Fayetteville, North Carolina-based HBCU’s 151 athletes recorded a median 3.42 GPA.
Congratulations to our student-athletes for reaching a cumulative 3.42 GPA for Spring 2025!!
Try the workforce GPAs for every sport! 📘🐴#AcademicExcellence #BroncoPride pic.twitter.com/zCPkqJxfVU— FSU Broncos (@FSUBroncos) June 16, 2025
This accomplishment stemmed from a overwhelming majority of the athletes having a GPA of three.5 or larger. Nonetheless, this doesn’t embody the straight-A students, with 32 student-athletes holding this standing. Their collective efforts raised the general common from final yr’s 3.33 collective GPA.
“This accomplishment displays the dedication of our student-athletes, coaches, educational assist workers, and college,” stated Director of Athletics Anthony Bennett within the faculty’s press launch. “We’re pleased with the tradition of excellence that continues to develop at Fayetteville State.”
Girls’s bowling led the HBCU with the very best GPAs on their roster, holding a workforce common of three.691. 5 of its gamers had been acknowledged by the Nationwide Tenpin Coaches Affiliation (NTCA) as All-Educational Scholar Athletes this previous yr.
FSU additionally ranks sixth on a nationwide scale of NTCA’s workforce educational requirements for the workforce’s efficiency within the classroom.
All 11 of the college’s athletic applications held sturdy GPAs throughout their rosters. Following ladies’s bowling, males’s cross nation ended the semester with a 3.58 workforce GPA. Softball and girls’s cross Nation additionally scored round a 3.5 GPA.
Whereas its athletes are excelling at school, their groups are securing new championships. Fayetteville State’s ladies’s basketball workforce, the present back-to-back CIAA champions, ahad an over 3.0 common.
Their dominance on the courtroom and through exams proves that Fayetteville State continues to uplift its athletes and their educational potential.