Bonnies Named to Top 25 WBCA List
After another 23-win season that featured its second trip to the WNIT, the St. Bonaventure women's basketball team learned that it also succeeded off the court by producing the 17th-best team grade-point average in 2009-10, according to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll.
The Bonnies team GPA of 3.35 put them in 17th place, marking the fifth straight year and the seventh time in the past eight seasons the Brown and White have worked their way into the WBCA Top 25 academic poll.
"This honor reinforces what a special group of student-athletes we have in our program," said head coach Jim Crowley. "They are truly dedicated to being successful in the classroom and on the court and are great representatives of what we look for in our student-athletes and of the St. Bonaventure community."
The Bonnies are the only school from the Atlantic 10 to qualify for the honor and just one of six teams to make the postseason in 2009-10 and make the top 25 academically.
Ten members of the 2009-10 squad earned a spot on the fall of 2009 or spring of 2010 A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, which recognizes student-athletes with a 3.5 GPA or higher for the given semester. Leading the way were seniors Andrea Doneth and Dana Mitchell. Doneth, who was named the Ideal Bonaventure student also earned a spot on the CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic District I second team with her 3.7 overall GPA. Mitchell was voted on to the A-10 Academic team as well as earning an honorable mention on the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete team
St. Bonaventure has consistently ranked among the top 25 academic teams in the nation since the 2002-03 campaign in which the Brown and White entered the rankings at #24. The team's highest academic ranking came in 2006-07 when it finished #3.
The Bonnies team GPA of 3.35 put them in 17th place, marking the fifth straight year and the seventh time in the past eight seasons the Brown and White have worked their way into the WBCA Top 25 academic poll.
"This honor reinforces what a special group of student-athletes we have in our program," said head coach Jim Crowley. "They are truly dedicated to being successful in the classroom and on the court and are great representatives of what we look for in our student-athletes and of the St. Bonaventure community."
The Bonnies are the only school from the Atlantic 10 to qualify for the honor and just one of six teams to make the postseason in 2009-10 and make the top 25 academically.
Ten members of the 2009-10 squad earned a spot on the fall of 2009 or spring of 2010 A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, which recognizes student-athletes with a 3.5 GPA or higher for the given semester. Leading the way were seniors Andrea Doneth and Dana Mitchell. Doneth, who was named the Ideal Bonaventure student also earned a spot on the CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic District I second team with her 3.7 overall GPA. Mitchell was voted on to the A-10 Academic team as well as earning an honorable mention on the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete team
St. Bonaventure has consistently ranked among the top 25 academic teams in the nation since the 2002-03 campaign in which the Brown and White entered the rankings at #24. The team's highest academic ranking came in 2006-07 when it finished #3.
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