311 Hawks Named To 2024-25 Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll
The Atlantic 10 Conference announced Monday that a record 4,048 student-athletes received Commissioner's Honor Roll distinction for 2024-25 academic year. Saint Joseph's ranked fifth among the 14 Atlantic 10 institutions with 311 student-athletes earning Commissioner's Honor Roll distinction, while 26 Hawks achieved 4.0 GPAs.
Saint Joseph's 2024-25 Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll Honorees
The league also set a record with an average 289 honorees per school, besting last year's average of 277. This year there were 406 student-athletes that achieved a 4.0 GPA, representing 10 percent of the total number of honorees. Additionally, 68.77 percent of the honorees, equalling 2,784 student-athletes, recorded a 3.5 GPA or better for the academic year.
Designed to recognize excellence in the classroom, a student-athlete in an Atlantic 10-sponsored sport at a full member institution must have a combined fall and spring semester grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the academic year to be selected for the Commissioner's Honor Roll. Both freshmen and graduate students are eligible to receive the award. In each of the last eight years, the league honored over 3,000 student-athletes per year and for the last two years, that number has topped 4,000.
Fordham had the most honorees with 386, followed by Davidson with 338. George Mason was third with 315 student-athletes honored, and Rhode Island (314) and Saint Joseph's (311) finished out the top five. The class is made up of 19.8 percent (802 total honorees) first year (freshman) students, 22.7 percent (919 total) sophomores, 22.6 percent (915 total) juniors and 26.8 percent (1,084 total) seniors. There were 320 graduate students honored, comprising 7.9 percent of the class.
The top three women's sports by totals were women's cross country/track & field with 521 honorees, women's soccer (390 honorees) and women's lacrosse (293 honorees). The top three men's sports were men's cross county/track & field (422 honorees), baseball (348 honorees) and men's soccer (325 honorees).
By average number of honorees, women's cross country/track & field led the way with 37.2 selections per team, followed by rowing with 33.75 and women's lacrosse with 29.3. On the men's side, the top three averages were men's lacrosse (34 selections per team), men's cross county/track & field (30.1 honorees per team), and baseball (29 honorees per team).
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