WICHITA, Kan. – Wichita State student-athletes recorded the second-highest spring semester cumulative grade-point average in school history with a 3.419 for the Spring 2025 semester. It was also the 40^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 the next 10 semesters – which has already been accomplished - and a department-wide 3.40 GPA once out of the next 10 semesters, a goal that has already been accomplished four times. The Spring of 2025 accomplished all three of these objectives.
 
"On behalf of our department and Shocker Nation, congratulations to the student-athletes on yet again, another remarkable accomplishment," said Director of Athletics Kevin Saal. "In the Summer of 2022 - with the support of Gretchen Torline and her team - the athletics program envisioned lofty new aspirational academic goals. Having never previously achieved a 3.4 GPA in the history of our program, to have done so four out of the last five semesters is both remarkable and inspiring!"
 
Of the 211 student-athletes on the honor roll (above a 3.0), 51 earned a perfect 4.0 GPA, while 150 were named to the Dean's List (3.5 GPA) and 190 were named Shocker Scholars (3.2 GPA).  Seventy-nine 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.