Texas Woman’s and St. Edward’s claimed the 12th annual Lone Star Conference Academic Excellence Awards presented by Balfour, it was announced by the league office on Tuesday (Aug. 19).
 
Texas Woman’s captured its third consecutive and record eighth overall women’s award, while St. Edward’s earned the men’s honor for the first time as the athletic departments with the highest collective team grade-point average (GPA) for the 2024-25 academic year.
 
“Congratulations to the student-athletes at Texas Woman’s and St. Edward’s on this most prestigious award,” LSC Commissioner Jay Poerner said. “We are thrilled to honor these two institutions for their outstanding academic success and their continued commitment to excellence in the classroom.”
 
TWU had 27 student-athletes over five sports with perfect 4.0 GPAs, while SEU had 14 over six men’s sports.
 
For the second consecutive year, the team with the overall highest GPA in the conference was the West Texas A&M women’s golf team. The Lady Buffs posted a 3.910 GPA.
 
TWU (women’s basketball, women’s soccer and stunt), SEU (men’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field and volleyball), LCU (men’s soccer, women’s indoor track and field and women’s outdoor track and field) and WNMU (men’s golf, men’s tennis and women’s tennis) all tied for the most sport academic champions with three each.
 
On the women’s side, all of TWU’s winners repeated titles as did the women’s golf team and UT Tyler softball team.
 
On the men’s side, StMU had the top baseball GPA for the fourth straight year. The LCU men’s soccer team and UT Tyler men’s cross country team made it three consecutive titles. The WT men’s basketball team and WNMU men’s golf team won back-to-back crowns.
 
The overall award winners were determined by a point system, with points distributed according to finish by sport in those that the LSC sponsors after a conference-wide comparison of team GPAs. The member institution with the highest team GPA in each sport was named the Sport Academic Champion and earned five (5) points toward the overall award. The runner-up in each sport picked up four (4) points and third-place three (3) points toward the overall award. Any program with a Team GPA of 2.00 and above earned one (1) point. Points for each member institution were totaled by gender and then divided by that institution’s number of counter programs in that gender to arrive at the comparison value.

 
LSC ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD PRESENTED BY BALFOUR
 
2024-25 Winners
 
Women
Texas Woman’s
 
Men
St. Edward’s
 
All-Time Winners

Year	Women’s Award	Men’s Award
2024-25	Texas Woman’s	St. Edward’s
2023-24	Texas Woman’s	St. Mary’s
2022-23	Texas Woman’s	St. Mary’s
2021-22	Lubbock Christian	St. Mary’s
2020-21	UT Tyler	UT Tyler
2019-20	St. Mary’s	Lubbock Christian
2018-19	Texas Woman’s	Cameron
2017-18	Eastern New Mexico	Western New Mexico
2016-17	Texas Woman’s / Cameron	Eastern New Mexico
2015-16	Texas Woman’s	West Texas A&M
2014-15	Texas Woman’s / West Texas A&M	West Texas A&M
2013-14	Texas Woman’s	Eastern New Mexico

 
2024-25 SPORT ACADEMIC CHAMPIONS
 
Women                                                                                          

Sport	School	GPA
Women’s Basketball	Texas Woman’s	3.883
Women’s Cross Country	Angelo State	3.754
Women’s Golf	West Texas A&M	3.91
Women’s Soccer	Texas Woman’s	3.693
Softball	UT Tyler	3.694
Stunt	Texas Woman’s	3.418
Volleyball	St. Edward’s	3.777
Women’s Indoor Track and Field	Lubbock Christian	3.558
Women’s Outdoor Track and Field	Lubbock Christian	3.558
Women’s Tennis	Western New Mexico	3.863

Men

Sport	School	GPA
Baseball	St. Mary’s	3.434
Men’s Basketball	West Texas A&M	3.438
Men’s Cross Country	UT Tyler	3.631
Football	Eastern New Mexico	2.859
Men’s Golf	Western New Mexico	3.703
Men’s Indoor Track and Field	St. Edward’s	3.439
Men’s Outdoor Track and Field	St. Edward’s	3.439
Men’s Soccer	Lubbock Christian	3.563
Men’s Tennis	Western New Mexico	3.805