LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced that eight different institutions have claimed Top Team GPA Awards for the 2025-26 academic year, with Slippery Rock University claiming the highest institutional average in the conference with a 3.528 combined GPA across 15 teams.
The Top Team GPA awards are in their 15th year of existence and are issued across 21 PSAC-sponsored sports.
The awards, released at the conclusion of every academic year, honor the teams with the top cumulative team grade point average in each of the sponsored sports within the PSAC. The conference sponsored 23 sports in total for 2025-26, however, for award purposes, indoor and outdoor track & field are counted as a single sport.
Along with Slippery Rock, which had seven different teams with conference-high GPAs to lead the PSAC, East Stroudsburg and Gannon each claimed four teams with conference-best marks. Seton Hill had two teams finish the season with the highest GPAs, while Edinboro, IUP, Kutztown, and Shepherd were all honored with a single Top Team GPA Award.
Slippery Rock’s top programs honored include football (3.126 GPA), men’s soccer (3.563), women’s lacrosse (3.664), women’s tennis (3.832), men’s track & field (3.369), women’s track & field (3.621), and women’s volleyball (3.711).
East Stroudsburg’s four program-highs were women’s basketball (3.777), field hockey (3.620), women’s golf (3.801), and women’s soccer (3.791).
Gannon boasted the best team GPAs in women’s cross country (3.763), men’s golf (3.699), men’s swimming (3.547), and women’s swimming (3.737).
For the fourth consecutive year, there was a slight increase in overall average GPA in the PSAC, with 2025-26's total of 3.372 ahead of 2024-25's 3.338.
Listed below are the winners of each Top Team GPA Award by sport, including each team's cumulative GPA in 2025-26.
| Baseball |
Seton Hill* |
3.502 |
| Men's Basketball |
Edinboro |
3.327 |
| Women's Basketball |
East Stroudsburg* |
3.777 |
| Men's Cross Country |
Shepherd |
3.674 |
| Women's Cross Country |
Gannon* |
3.763 |
| Field Hockey |
East Stroudsburg* |
3.620 |
| Football |
Slippery Rock |
3.126 |
| Men's Golf |
Gannon |
3.699 |
| Women's Golf |
East Stroudsburg |
3.801 |
| Men's Soccer |
Slippery Rock* |
3.563 |
| Women's Lacrosse |
Slippery Rock* |
3.664 |
| Women's Soccer |
East Stroudsburg |
3.791 |
| Softball |
IUP |
3.735 |
| Men's Swimming |
Gannon* |
3.547 |
| Women's Swimming |
Gannon |
3.737 |
| Men's Tennis |
Kutztown |
3.609 |
| Women's Tennis |
Slippery Rock* |
3.832 |
| Men's Track & Field |
Slippery Rock* |
3.369 |
| Women's Track & Field |
Slippery Rock |
3.621 |
| Volleyball |
Slippery Rock |
3.711 |
| Wrestling |
Seton Hill |
3.267 |
*Indicates 2024-25 Top Team GPA Award winner in identical sport