2018 WKU Football Media Gui
Untitled-1 1 7/17/18 11:02 AM AT THE TOP GENERAL HILLTOPPERS 2017 REVIEW 2017 AT THE TOP CONFERENCE LEADERS For the 2017-18 academic year, 100 WKU student- athletes earned the ultimate prize, their college Since joining Conference USA in 2014-15, the diploma, while boasting a cumulative GPA of 3.12 Hilltoppers have run away from the pack in terms of with degrees in exercise science, recreation and sport league championships and led C-USA each year in HISTORY administration, biology, marketing, finance, chemistry, championships won for the first three years WKU was and nursing among many others. a member school. WKU’s 24 league titles in that span are twice as many as the next school and represent Conference USA recognized 140 student-athletes 22 percent of the total championships award by the with Commissioner’s Honor Roll accolades for league (110) over the four-year span. posting 3.0 or higher cumulative GPAs and 41 of those student-athletes received academic medals for In 2017-18, WKU added three more C-USA posting GPAs of 3.75 or higher. championships with a third title in four seasons in women’s basketball and volleyball’s fourth WINNING CULTURE CONTINUES UNIVERSITY consecutive league and tournament championship. For the fourth consecutive season, WKU ranked WKU has also shown versatility by winning in the top five nationally in combined winning championships in seven different sport programs and percentage across football, men’s basketball, women’s in all three seasons - fall, winter, and spring. basketball and volleyball. And, since 2014-15, no one in the country has won as many matches across those RECORD HIGH IN ACADEMICS four sports (350) than the Hilltoppers or at a better clip than WKU’s 74.8 percent.
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