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Student-Athletes record highest semester GPAs in department history

Sixty-eight percent of Central Michigan’s student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or higher in the fall semester — the most in Athletics Department history.

The previous highest percent of student-athletes above a 3.0 GPA was 62 percent in spring of 2015.

The 2015 fall semester was the 19th consecutive semester student-athletes carried a cumulative GPA higher than a 3.0.

CMU’s 462 student-athletes combined to average a 3.179 GPA, which is also the highest combined average ever. The lowest combined student-athlete average GPA was a 2.920 in 1997.

Female student-athletes carried a 3.397 GPA, while the men carried a 2.