Wednesday, October 8, 2003
MORAVIAN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM EARNS A SPOT ON THE 2003
WBCA ACADEMIC TOP 25 TEAM HONOR ROLL
ATLANTA, GA --- The Moravian College women’s basketball team is among the 25 NCAA
Division III schools listed in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association 2002-03
Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division III.
The awards, handed out on the Division I, II and III levels as well as in NAIA and Junior
College/Community College, recognize the nation’s highest team grade point averages
(GPA) for the 2002-03 season based upon nominations submitted by the WBCA-member coaches.
The Greyhounds had a team GPA of 3.402 last year to rank 14th among the 25 Division III
schools listed. The only other Middle Atlantic Corporation school in the top 25 was Messiah
College, which was sixth, after holding the top spot the two previous years. Moravian,
under the direction of head coach Mary Beth Spirk for the 17th season,
will return nine players from last year’s 20-8 squad that played Messiah for the
Commonwealth Conference Championship and competed in the 2003 Eastern College Athletics
Conference South Championships.
“It is incredible to see the GPAs each Top 25 team produces year in and year out.” Said
Beth Bass, the Chief Executive Officer of the WBCA. “These teams set a precedent
among student-athletes and deserve to be recognized for their accomplishment. Congratulations
to the 110 teams we honor this year!”
Indiana State University (Division I) and the University of Nebraska-Kearney (Division
II) make their first, first-place finishes in the WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll,
while Whitworth College (Division III), Concordia (NE) University (NAIA) and Salt Lake
Community College have all earned top honors in previous years. Concordia makes and unprecedented
fourth consecutive No. 1 finish.
GPAs are calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by each student-athlete
on an institution’s squad list in the given academic terms by the total number of
hours earned by the team. The GPAs are rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point.
For a complete list of the Division III schools in the WBCA 2003 Academic Top 25 Team
Honor Roll from Division III, visit the following website http://www.wbca.org/releases/2003academic25DIII.asp.
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