WICHITA, Kan. – Wichita State student-athletes recorded the highest semester cumulative grade-point average in school history with a 3.53 for the Fall 2024 semester. It was also the 39^th-consecutive semester of earning higher than a 3.00 cumulative grade-point average department wide.

In August of 2022, Wichita State Athletics established a bold and aggressive set of five-year strategic objectives. Academically - beginning the Fall of 2022 semester and concluding the Spring of 2027 semester - Wichita State Athletics aspires to achieve a department-wide 3.0 GPA all 10 semesters, a department-wide 3.30 GPA five out of the10 semesters – five of which have already been accomplished - and a department-wide 3.40 GPA once in the same 10 semesters, a goal that has already been accomplished three times. The Fall of 2024 accomplished all three of these objectives.
 
"This is a truly remarkable achievement for Shocker Athletics," said Director of Athletics Kevin Saal. "Our 273 student-athletes, and nearly 100 coaches and staff, deserve all the credit for not only making academic performance a priority, but also for putting in the work necessary to deliver unprecedented results. Within athletics, we are united around our mission to develop young people and programs through first-class service, and we thank Shocker Nation, SASO contributors and generous donors/season ticket holders for providing necessary resources to fuel these unparalleled results."
 
Of the 237 student-athletes on the honor roll (above a 3.0), 53 earned a perfect 4.0 GPA, while 176 were named to the Dean's List (3.5 GPA) and 219 were named Shocker Scholars (3.2 GPA).  Eighty-six percent of student-athletes were above a 3.0 GPA. 
 
"The Wichita State and Shocker Athletics community has always understood the importance of the Shocker Athletic Scholarship Organization (SASO) to our educational mission," Saal said. "Our student-athletes are fifty-percent first-generation college students. They are doing something that has never been done before in their families, and likely would not be possible without the athletics scholarships afforded through SASO. In that way, SASO supporters are ushering generational and transformational change within the current and future families of today's Shocker student-athletes."
 
If you would like to enhance your current contribution to SASO or make a new contribution to assist in providing the best educational experience for our student-athletes, please call the SASO Office at 316-978-7276 or email at saso@goshockers.com.