ARLINGTON, Texas – For the fifth straight academic year, Utah Valley University claimed at least a share of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Academic Excellence Award as the outright winner of the 2024-25 honor. The award recognizes exemplary performance in the classroom by conference members during a given academic year.

The award is determined by a point system and presented to the institution(s) that performs the best in the following areas at the end of an academic year: the average grade-point average (GPA) for each undergraduate student-athlete, the average GPA of each undergraduate student body compared to the average GPA of an institution's student-athletes and the most recent two-year average of institutional Academic Progress Rate scores.

Utah Valley earned a fifth consecutive academic excellence award after boasting a cumulative 3.52 department GPA across 16 varsity sports. Utah Valley student-athletes registered a GPA that was 0.34 points above the university’s overall undergraduate average. The Wolverines have posted an average institutional APR of 990.5 over the past two recorded academic years, including a score of 992 in 2022-23.

WAC Academic Excellence Award Winners:

2024-25 – Utah Valley

2023-24 – Utah Valley

2022-23 – Abilene Christian and Utah Valley

2021-22 – Utah Valley

2020-21 – Seattle U and Utah Valley

2019-20 – Seattle U

2018-19 – Grand Canyon

2017-18 – Grand Canyon

2016-17 – Kansas City