Academics | 1/8/2025 2:53:00 PM

MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – At the conclusion of the 2024 fall semester, all 20 of the Barry University varsity athletic teams posted a term team grade point average of 3.0 or higher. The Bucs earned their tenth consecutive NCAA President's Award in the fall. The award is presented to Division II member schools earning an Academic Success Rate of 90 percent or higher.

Special recognition for the 4.0 Club with its record 57 members from the fall semester can be found here - Fall 2024 4.0 Club

2024 Fall 4.0 Club by Team
BASEBALL (7) - Frank Avila, Jason Collins, Shawn Flynn, Justina MacCain, Brandon Delapenha, Collin McLaughlin, Murchael Turner
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK (1) - Patrick Alexander
MEN'S GOLF (3) - Santiago Amador, Felipe Golmez Lopez, Hunter Thompson
MEN'S SOCCER (5) - James Averies, Henry Miller, Matthew Van De Warker, Linus Wirth, Timo Wirth
MEN'S SWIMMING (4) - Balazs Ament, Milosz Mencel, Roland Nagy, Robin Tatar
MEN'S TENNIS (1) - Adam Lynch
MEN'S VOLLEYBALL (2) - Elias Fuhrer, Josh Luce
BEACH VOLLEYBALL (2) - Ellie Madrigal, Adrienne Saunders
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (2) - Kornelia Ignerska, Audrey Jennings
WOMEN'S FLAG FOOTBALL (1) - Alionna Chappell
WOMEN'S GOLF (4) - Candela Clemente, Giuliana Gomez, Imogen Rafferty, Tereza Zavrelova
WOMEN'S ROWING (3) - Cate Rochow, Grace Steffan, Josie Wiles
WOMEN'S SOCCER (11) - Madeline Barker, Katelyn Billoch, Maya Caon, Kaitlin Conway, Viviana Corbisiero, Ashley Finn, Gabriela Gracia, Madison Paster, Anabel Toledo, Ella Wallfur Skiljic
SOFTBALL (3) - Mia Lucey, Becka Mellor, Shelby Prevatte
WOMEN'S TENNIS (3) - Andrea Di Palma, Fiona Hayd, Maria Tatarnikova
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL (3) - Petra Brkicic, McKayla Theleus, Isabella Marquez

"As we increased roster sizes and added new varsity and club teams, we knew maintaining our academic standards was going to be a challenge. But like true Bucs, we did not back down from the test and proved why we are champions on and off the courts, field, water, track, and so on. I am so proud of the effort of our student-athletes, coaches, and support staff during the fall semester, their commitment to both academic and athletic excellence is like no other. Thanks to our Data and Applications team lead by Grace Ralfelt, we were able to develop a system to track our athletes academic progress through the semester. With the help of our coaches, staff, and advisors, we earned a 3.44 term GPA for the 20 varsity programs, sending 63.5 percent of our athletes to the honor roll; 57 of those student-athletes with a perfect 4.0. A special thank you to our academic support staff, CASA, Glenn Hubert Learning Center, academic advisors, GA's, work-study, and tutors who made this all possible." - Associate Athletic Director/Academic Success Frank Gonzalez.

The women's golf team turned in an amazing 3.863 term GPA and topped the list for cumulative GPA at 3.750. Men's tennis had the highest term GPA for the men at 3.580 and the highest cumulative at 3.573.

Here is a complete list of some of the Bucs' academic accomplishments:

• Barry University has earned the NCAA President's Award for a 90+% graduation rate 10 consecutive years.
• 53 of the last 54 semesters (Fall 1996 – Fall 2024) cumulative GPAs of all Barry University student-athletes at 3.00 or higher.
• Barry University has had 692 Academic and Scholar All-Americans in 13 different sports.
• Barry University has had two National Academic All-Americans of the Year, one each in men's tennis (Christian Witt, 2000) and men's soccer (Mark Anderson, 2010).
• Barry is the only NCAA Division II school and the first overall to have two Walter Byers Scholarship winners (Marya Marusiewicz, 1997 and Anna Hallbergson, 2000).
• Barry has had 10 NCAA Woman of the Year finalists.
• Barry University has six NCAA Elite 90 awards in four different sports, with Roy Shohat earning the most recent distinction at the 2022 NCAA Division II Fall Festival.
• 6 Male Sunshine State Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year (conference record)
• 9 Female Sunshine State Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year (conference record)