EOU Athletics earn Presidents’ Cup Academic Excellence honors
By Paul Hall on Wednesday, June 30th, 2021 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News
LA GRANDE – (Information provided by EOU Athletics) Seven Cascade Collegiate Conference athletic departments earned Presidents’ Academic Excellence status for the recently completed 2020-21 school year, the conference office announced Monday. Among the seven institutions selected was Eastern Oregon University.
In order to receive the designation, a department must achieve an overall combined GPA of 3.0 or better among their student-athletes (men/women) that compete in sports that the CCC declares a champion in, and have 60-percent or higher of student-athletes who are eligible to receive Academic All-Conference (sophomore standing/3.2 GPA) recognition do so.
“Earning Presidents’ Academic Excellence designation is a great accomplishment,” stated CCC Commissioner Robert Cashell. “It represents the highest academic honor our departments can earn from the CCC and recognizes the outstanding efforts in the classroom.”
Mountaineer Athletes finished with a cumulative GPA of 3.23 and had 63% of its department earn Academic All-Conference honors. In all, 99 student-athletes from EOU garnered U.S. Bank Academic All-CCC honors for the 2020-21 academic year. A big highlight for the 2020-21 academic year for the Mountaineers came in the winter term when all 15 athletic teams posted above a 3.0 team GPA and 157 student-athletes made the Dean’s List.
