BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Patriot League has announced its 2023-24 Winter-Spring Academic Honor Roll selections, with 128 spots going to American University student-athletes. For the full school year, the Eagles had 220 student-athletes named to PL Academic Honor Rolls across 13 sports.
The League had 3,894 student-athletes make the 2023-24 Academic Honor Roll, including 2,638 honorees on the Winter-Spring Academic Honor Roll. The League improved by 258 members from the 2022-23 academic year.
Patriot League student-athletes are selected to the academic honor roll for achieving a 3.2 grade-point average (GPA) or better during the semester in which their League champion is crowned. The 2023-24 season marks the seventh consecutive academic year the League has topped 3,000 honor roll selections. The League previously had 1,236 student-athletes named to the fall academic honor roll.
During the 2023-24 academic year, 2,151 women were honored across 12 sports while 1,723 men were recognized across 10 sports, both increasing more than 100 student-athletes from last year. Patriot League women’s track and field teams placed a League-high 380 student-athletes on the honor roll, while women’s rowing (322) and men’s track and field (287) ranked second and third, respectively, during the winter and spring seasons. Men’s lacrosse (292), women’s swimming and diving (272), women’s lacrosse (250) and men’s swimming and diving (203) all placed 200 or more student-athletes on the honor roll. Baseball (112), softball (108), women’s basketball (93), men’s basketball (80), men’s tennis (76), women’s tennis (72), men’s golf (52) and women’s golf (39) completed the contributions to the winter-spring honor roll.
