Fairfield Women’s Basketball Ranked in Top-25 of WBCA Team Honor Roll
FAIRFIELD, Conn. –Sporting a cumulative 3.51 team grade point average, the Fairfield University Women's Basketball team has been ranked in the top-25 in the country in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Team Honor Roll. The Stags find themselves tied with Southern Illinois University-Carbondale for 22nd on the list of Division I teams.
The Stags posted six student-athletes on the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) All-Academic team last season with all six earning a GPA greater than a 3.2. The Stags are the first conference team ranked in the top-25 of the WBCA Honor Roll since Canisius College ranked 10th after the 2010-11 season.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay led the 347 team Division I field with a 3.82 GPA with Robert Morris (3.73) and the University of South Dakota (3.70) rounding out the top-three.
About the Women's Basketball Coaches Association:
Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association is the professional association for coaches of women's and girls' basketball at all levels of competition. The WBCA offers educational resources that coaches need to help make themselves better leaders, teachers and mentors to their players; provides opportunities for coaches to connect with peers in the profession; serves as the unifying voice of a diverse community of coaches to those organizations that control the game; and celebrates those coaches, players and other individuals who excel each year and contribute to the advancement of the sport. Visit
www.WBCA.org for more details about the Association.