BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. - Following the end of the fall academic semester, Gardner-Webb Athletics has achieved a cumulative department-wide 3.40 GPA, including three programs who set or tied a new program record for highest cumulative semester GPA

Individually, 93 Gardner-Webb student-athletes finished the 2025-26 fall semester with a perfect 4.0 GPA. That includes five from baseball, one from men's basketball, three from women's basketball, two from men's cross country, three from women's cross country, three from cheerleading, eight from football, one from men's golf, three from women's golf, nine from women's lacrosse, 10 from men's soccer, 13 from women's soccer, five from softball, one from men's tennis, four from volleyball, seven from wrestling and a department-best 15 from swimming, eight on the women's team and seven on the men's team. Furthermore, 250 more Gardner-Webb student-athletes achieved a 3.5 GPA or better, and 129 more finished with at least a 3.0 in the fall

Across the department, all varsity Gardner-Webb teams achieved a cumulative team 3.0 GPA, with women's golf recording a department-high 3.89. This also includes women's swimming (3.75) and wrestling (3.46) who recorded the highest cumulative semester GPA in program history, and women's soccer (3.64) who tied its previous semester record