Fairfield Women’s Basketball Earns WBCA Academic Team Honor Roll
ATLANTA, GA – Supporting a team grade point average of 3.499, the Fairfield University Women's Basketball team earned a spot on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Team Honor Roll for the second-straight season. The Stags' GPA ranked 20th among all NCAA Division I institutions and was the only Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) representative. Fairfield is also the only MAAC school to make the academic team honor roll in two-straight years since Manhattan grabbed a spot from 2008-2010.
"It's a tremendous accomplishment for our team," Head Coach
Joe Frager said. "I'm just so proud of our players. It's something that we try to stress with them, to stay on top of their academics. But for us to do this for the second consecutive year and crack the top-25 is just outstanding. I'm extremely proud of them."
All nine student-athletes who were eligible earned a spot on the MAAC All-Academic team during the 2017-18 season after maintaining a 3.2 GPA. The Stags now have a conference-best 17 selections over the last two years.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay led the country in GPA for the second-straight year with a 3.753. Western Illinois (3.751), St. Francis College (3.749), Robert Morris (3.748), and Loyola (Md.) (3.736) rounded out the top-five.
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.