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in women’s soccer, women’s basketball, women’s tennis and were
co-champions in men’s tennis. UNC Pembroke won the men’s bas-
13 of the 14 PBC member institutions the student-athletes had, on
average, a better GPA than the general student body.
The President’s Academic Award is
part of a larger conference program
to highlight the accomplishments
of PBC student-athletes in the class-
room as well as on the field.
Montevallo’s Thompson,
GSW’s Ward Named PBC
Scholar-Athletes of the
Year
ketball east division title and the men’s track & field championship.
The PBC Commissioner’s Cup is determined by calculating the
number of points possible to each school, given the number of
sports they participate in, divided by the number of points earned
during the year. Points are determined by placement in the final
regular-season standings in each of the PBC’s 15 championship
sports.
North Georgia Claims PBC Presidents’ Academic
Award
HILTON HEAD, SC – University of
Montevallo cross country and track
standout Cheyenne Thompson
and Georgia Southwestern State
University golfer Nick Ward were
named the 2017 PBC Scholar-Ath-
letes of the Year on Tuesday in Hilton
Head. The award is the highest individual honor given by the PBC
to a student-athlete during the year and is selected by the league’s
Faculty Athletic Representatives.
Thompson finishes her career at Montevallo as one of the most
decorated runners in PBC history. The Chelsea, Ala., native graduat-
ed with a degree in chemistry and a minor in biology with a perfect
4.00 GPA. A two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, she received
the PBC Elite 15 Award in both cross country and track this season
in addition to earning her fourth consecutive Presidential Honor
Roll Gold Scholar honor.
HILTON HEAD, SC – The University of North Georgia
won their first-ever Presidents’ Academic Award
on Tuesday night at the Peach Belt Conference
annual awards dinner in Hilton Head. The award
recognizes excellence in academics concerning all
of an institution’s student-athletes.
At the end of the academic school year the
Peach Belt Conference asked each of the league’s
14 members to submit an average GPA for the
undergraduate student body and a GPA for all
student-athletes. These two numbers were used to
determine each institutions’ GPA ratio that identi-
fies which school’s athletes are performing most
ahead of the curve in comparison to the student
body. The schools are not measured against one
another, just their athletes to their students. North
Georgia had the highest ratio at 1.09375, and at
2016-17