July 10, 2009 – The Truman women’s basketball team found a spot at No. 17 on the WBCA’s Academic top-25 team honor roll, announced Thursday.
Under first-year head coach Michael Smith, the Bulldog women’s squad compiled a team grade point average of 3.461 and were just three one-hundredths of a point from reaching the Div. II top-10. Truman was the only squad from the MIAA and one of just three teams from the South Central region to crack the top-25.
The award marks the third time in five seasons that Truman has finished in the WBCA Academic top-25, following back-to-back 24th-place finishes in 2005 and 2006.
GPAs are calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by each student-athlete on an institution’s roster in the given academic terms by the total number of hours earned by the team. The GPAs are then rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point.