PISCATAWAY – Rutgers women's golf has been recognized as one of the nation's top 25 programs in academic performance by the Women's Golf Coaches Association for a third consecutive year. The Scarlet Knights, with six student-athletes recently named 2018-19 WGCA Division I All-America Scholars, maintained a 3.781 team grade point average to place first among all Power 5 conference women's golf programs and eighth among Division I schools.
WGCA Division I Top 10 Academic Programs
| No. |
School |
Team GPA |
| 1. |
University of New Mexico |
3.903 |
| 2. |
Coastal Carolina University |
3.862 |
| 3. |
California Baptist University |
3.831 |
| 4. |
Jacksonville University |
3.824 |
| 5. |
Arkansas State University |
3.817 |
| 6. |
University of Detroit Mercy |
3.814 |
| 7. |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
3.800 |
| 8. |
Rutgers University |
3.781 |
| 9. |
Gardner-Webb University |
3.780 |
| 10. |
East Carolina University |
3.770 |
Women's golf earned the Top Team Grade Point Average at the RAwards in May. The team, which had six student-athletes earn Big Ten All-Academic honors and five Big Ten Distinguished Scholars this spring, led all Rutgers programs in the classroom for the fourth consecutive year. With a perfect 1,000 multi-year rate for the past six years, women's golf was one of nine RU programs to receive public recognition from the NCAA for its most recent multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) score. It signaled the seventh-straight year, and the eighth time overall, that women's golf was recognized by the NCAA for its academic progress.
The academic awards help to highlight another successful campaign under Williams. The team concluded its season ranked 84th in the nation with a 300.07 scoring average to establish a new program record. The Scarlet Knights accumulated a school-record 274 birdies in the process.
The WGCA, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 600 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
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