Women's Cross Country Earns BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Award

NEW YORK - The BIG EAST Conference has announced the recipients of its 2025-26 Team Academic Excellence Awards, recognizing the conference's top-performing teams in the classroom across each of its 22 sponsored sports.

Among this year's honorees, the women's cross country team earned the BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Award after recording a 3.81 cumulative team GPA.

The annual awards honor the team in each conference-sponsored sport that posted the highest cumulative grade-point average during the 2025-26 academic year, highlighting the outstanding academic achievements of BIG EAST student-athletes.

2025-26 Team Academic Excellence Award Recipients

Sport Institution GPA

Baseball St. John's 3.591

Men's Basketball Butler 3.266

Women's Basketball DePaul and Villanova (tie) 3.528

Men's Cross Country Seton Hall 3.811

Women's Cross Country UConn 3.810

Men's Indoor Track & Field Creighton 3.628

Women's Indoor Track & Field Butler 3.690

Men's Outdoor Track & Field Creighton 3.628

Women's Outdoor Track & Field Butler 3.690

Field Hockey Georgetown 3.752

Men's Golf Xavier 3.768

Women's Golf St. John's 3.887

Men's Lacrosse St. John's 3.544

Women's Lacrosse Villanova 3.570

Men's Soccer DePaul 3.670

Women's Soccer Butler 3.788

Softball Butler 3.847

Men's Swimming & Diving Georgetown 3.657

Women's Swimming & Diving Providence 3.736

Men's Tennis Georgetown 3.758

Women's Tennis St. John's 3.876

Volleyball St. John's 3.737

Awards by Institution

Institution Awards

St. John's 5

Butler 4

Georgetown 3

Creighton 2

DePaul 1*

Providence 1

Seton Hall 1

UConn 1

Villanova 1*

Xavier 1

*Includes the shared Women's Basketball Team Academic Excellence Award.

University of Connecticut Athletics

Women's Cross Country Earns BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Award

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