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NM State Among WGCA All-Scholar Team GPA Award Recipients

The award recognizes the women’s collegiate golf programs with the highest collective average team GPA, which includes all the team’s student-athletes for the 2025-26 season.

Source: NMSU Athletics
By Michael Navarrette
Photo: Courtesy

FRISCO, Texas – The Women’s Golf Coaches Association has announced the recipients of the 2205-26 WGCA All-Scholar Team GPA Award for all divisions. Following another stellar year in the classroom, the NM State women’s golf team finished the year with a combined team GPA of 3.834 to rank 23rd in the nation among Division I programs.

The award recognizes the women’s collegiate golf programs with the highest collective average team GPA, which includes all the team’s student-athletes for the 2025-26 season. This also marks the fourth time in program history that the Aggies have garnered this award and serves as the first time since the 2018-19 season when they finished with a 3.720 to rank 16th in the country. Additionally, this represents the highest team GPA during the Danny Bowen era, surpassing their GPA in 2018-19.

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Among Division I programs, Houston Christian finished with the top GPA as its eight players recorded a combined 3.947 GPA.

NM State was also one of three Conference USA programs among the top 25 as they were joined by Jacksonville State and Delaware. The complete list of top-25 programs for this award can be found below.

PlaceUniversityTeam GPA
1Houston Christian3.947
2Marshall3.946
3Little Rock3.945
4Austin Peay3.931
5Ball State3.916
6Illinois3.915
7North Dakota State3.907
8Youngstown State3.903
T9Bowling Green3.897
T9Jacksonville State3.897
11North Texas3.892
12St. John’s3.887
13Chattanooga3.8852
14Elon3.875
15Vanderbilt3.865
16UC Davis3.859
17East Tennessee State3.858
18Radford3.855
19UL Monroe3.853
20Rutgers3.85
21Nevada3.849
22Delaware3.835
23NM State3.834
24UTSA3.831
T25Dayton3.83
T25Drake3.83

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