RENO, Nev. – For the second-straight academic year since the return to full, in-person learning, Nevada student-athletes exceeded the 3.0 grade-point-average mark. In 2022-23, the athletic department's student-athletes posted a combined GPA of 3.148.
Fourteen Wolf Pack programs posted team GPAs of at least 3.0 for the Spring 2023 semester, topped by a 3.705 from women's cross country. Ski (3.679) and women's golf (3.618) were also above the 3.5 mark for the semester.
Nevada football came in with a team GPA of 3.012 for the spring term, its first above 3.0 since the return to full in-person learning, and a third-straight semester of increase in GPA since head coach Ken Wilson took over the program ahead of the Spring 2022 term.
As a whole, the department's combined GPA for the Spring 2023 term was 3.169, following a 3.128 figure for Fall 2022.
Beginning with Spring 2021's hybrid in-person/remote learning, Nevada student-athletes have now posted five consecutive semesters with at least a 3.0 GPA. Wolf Pack programs to have hit the 3.0 mark in all five semesters are women's basketball, women's cross country, women's golf, women's soccer, softball, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis, women's track & field, men's cross country, and men's tennis.