July 15, 2008

ATLANTA . . . Women's basketball teams from Simpson College and Luther College have been named to the 2007-08 Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll. The Top 25 awards teams throughout the nation that carry the highest grade point averages for the entire season based on the nomination submitted by WBCA-member head coaches.

Simpson College, coached by Brian Niemuth, ranked fifth with a 3.469 cumulative team GPA, while Luther College, coached by Jane Hildebrand, placed 20th with a 3.391 GPA.

Concordia University (Wis.) led all Division III teams with a cumulative GPA of 3.637.

GPAs are calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by each student-athlete on an institution's roster in the given academic terms by the total number of hours earned by the team. The GPAs are rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point. Per a motion passed by the WBCA Board of Directors in 2007, teams making the list of Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll must obtain at least a 3.000 overall GPA.

WBCA Release

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