Goldey-Beacom Athletics last year got its highest NCAA Academic Success Rate in school history and went a percentage point higher this year, ending with 92 percent.
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This also marks an increase of four percentage points from two years ago and Goldey-Beacom was one of 43 schools to receive the NCAA's Presidents' Award, given to those who achieve at least 90 percent.
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"Academic success continues to be a hallmark of the student-athlete experience at GBC," Director of Athletics Jeremy Benoit said. Â "This is thanks in large part to the commitment of our faculty to the education of our student-athletes and their flexibility to their sometimes difficult schedules, but also to our institution's commitment to academic support. Â We have one of the most thorough academic support strategies for student-athletes that I've seen amongst our Division II competitors and we are very proud of what it has accomplished in advancing our academic success."
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The NCAA ASR average among Division II schools is 77 percent.
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The ASR and the Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) are metrics that NCAA Division II colleges use to measure the retention, persistence and graduation of student-athletes. The ASR typically is seen as a more accurate representation of academic success, since the FGR only includes scholarship athletes who began their enrollment at the College as freshmen. Whereas the ASR includes all student-athletes, including transfers who leave the College in good academic standing.
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- The 92 percent puts Goldey-Beacom tied for 12th among over 300 NCAA Division II schools and tied for second in the 12-team Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.
- Men's golf, softball, women's tennis and women's cross country/track & field all achieved an ASR of 100 percent, ending tied for third in the CACC with three programs.
- For a second straight year, Goldey-Beacom is one of the same five CACC schools to earn the Presidents' Award (Caldwell, Chestnut Hill, Holy Family, Jefferson).
- Goldey-Beacom in 2023-24 saw 61 of its student-athletes named to the CACC All-Academic Team and 25 picked to the College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-District Team.
- Goldey-Beacom in its history has six named CSC Academic All-America, 81 picked CSC Academic All-District and nine tabbed winners of the CACC Top XVII Award for having the top GPA at the finals site of each conference championship.
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"Our College continues to work together to support our student-athletes making sure they are able to balance their academic rigor and athletics," Associate Director of Athletics/Senior Woman Administrator/Women's Basketball Coach Bethann Burke said. "Our coaches have continued to recruit high-caliber student-athletes and institutionally we have continued to grow our academic support programs to our student-athletes needs. Our student-athletes fully buy into putting forth their best academic effort and the College supports them. Our student-athletes work hard and are great models for our campus community."
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