BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — 79 Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) student-athletes earned Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-Academic honors. In total, 449 athletes were honored by the ACWPC for their academic achievements.
Divided into three teams based on cumulative grade point average, league members garnered 28 Outstanding (4.00-3.71), 31 Superior (3.70-3.41) and 20 Excellent (3.40-3.20) honors as six institutions submitted nominees for the team in the fourth season of play for the NWPC.
The total marks a four athlete increase over the NWPC’s 75 selections in 2019 and increases of nine and 15 over the league’s 70 and 64 selections in 2017 and 2016, respectively.
In addition, six of the 34 schools that broke a 3.0 grade point average to earn Team All-Academic recognition compete in the Northeast Water Polo Conference as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) leads the nation with a 3.64 GPA. Brown University (3.56), Harvard University (3.48), Iona College (3.34), Princeton University (3.34) and St. Francis Brooklyn (3.14), Iona (3.27) also collected honors.
Overall, MIT and Brown rank No. 1 and 2 in the nation in GPA with Harvard (5th), Iona (12th-T), Princeton (12th-T) and St. Francis Brooklyn (20th-T) also ranking among the 20 best programs in academic performance.
To be eligible for consideration, student-athlete’s head coach must be a member of the ACWPC, while the athlete must attain a cumulative grade point average in excess of 3.20.
In total, 199 student-athletes that compete in a Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) administered league earned recognition as the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) collected 120 (38 Outstanding, 44 Superior, 38 Excellent) laurels.
Further, institutions from East Coast conferences led the Team All-Academic Awards as 15 of 34 schools that topped a 3.0 GPA compete in either the MAWPC or NWPC. Six schools that compete in either the MAWPC or NWPC stand among the Top 10 teams in the country, including four of the Top Five and six of the first seven.
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