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2020 EIU Fall Grades

CHARLESTON, Ill. – For the second straight semester Eastern Illinois student-athletes rose to the challenge in the class room under difficult circumstances as the Panthers posted a record setting semester in the class room for the fall of 2020.  All of EIU's intercollegiate athletic teams posted a 3.00 or higher team GPA with a department average of 3.48.
 
The EIU women's cross country team posted the department's highest team GPA at 3.83 followed by women's basketball at 3.80.  The EIU men's soccer program was the highest men's team with a GPA of 3.57 as ten programs finished with a 3.5 or higher team average.
 
EIU had a total of 109 student-athletes finish with a 4.0 GPA to represent 24 percent of the Panthers athletic department.   An additional 233 student-athletes posted a 3.0 to 3.99 GPA for the term giving the Panthers 75 percent of the department at the 3.0 or higher mark.
 
Additional EIU teams with a 3.5 or higher team GPA for the fall semester included: women's tennis (3.67), women's track & field (3.63), softball (3.62), men's cross country (3.56), women's soccer (3.55), women's swimming (3.54) and volleyball (3.54).
 
The success this semester follows up a spring term that was directly impacted by COVID-19 in mid-March.  In that term, EIU student-athletes finished strong with a department average of 3.44.