UM's 13 athletic teams combined for a 3.09 term GPA this past fall, matching the best semester in the school's record-keeping era that dates back to the late 1990s.
Ten programs had a fall GPA of 3.0 or better, and five had terms higher than 3.4: women’s cross country (3.79), women’s tennis (3.56), women’s golf (3.47), men’s tennis (3.46) and women’s soccer (3.44).
The Montana football team posted a 2.87 GPA, the cumulative average among 103 student athletes, its third-highest since records were kept.
The program-record of 2.92 GPA came in the fall of 2012, Mick Delaney's first year as head coach.
Men’s cross country checked in at 3.34 in the fall, women’s basketball at 3.27, women’s track and field at 3.26, softball at 3.04, volleyball at 3.01, men’s track and field at 2.94 and men’s basketball at 2.90.
Montana's total student-athlete population is 321.
