Toledo Excels in Classroom During 2007 Spring Semester

Twenty student-athletes garnered a 3.0 GP or better, as the team carries a combined 3.147 GPA

TOLEDO, OH - Since Head Coach Cory Mee's arrival prior to the 2004 season, the Rockets' academic performance has shown dramatic improvement. The baseball program has posted team grade point averages above 3.0 in seven of the last eight semesters. This past spring, Toledo had 20 student-athletes garner a 3.0 or better, as the team carried a combined 3.147 GPA.

The baseball program's performance was a part of the athletic department's successful semester which saw UT student-athletes earn a collective grade point average of 3.020 in the 2007 spring semester, the second-highest GPA for the department since it began compiling GPA data in 1993. The all-time high of 3.059 was set in the spring of 2006.

Additionally, a record 12 of UT's 15 sport programs had team GPA's of 3.0 or above (UT has 16 varsity sports but women's indoor and outdoor track count as one sport for academic purposes). The previous high was 11 in the spring of 2006. Women's volleyball had the highest team GPA (3.600), followed closely by women's soccer (3.597) and women's tennis (3.555).

Individually, 21 student-athletes earned perfect 4.0 GPA's this spring, including baseball players Todd Thomas and Scott Boley, while 110 individuals (over 34 percent) earned a spot on the Dean's List for by garnering at least a 3.50 GPA.

UT players with 3.0 GPA or above in Spring 2007:
Scott Boley (4.0 GPA)
Sean Boley
Dawson Chandler
Josh Colliver
Justin Collop
Aaron Dudley
Brad Eickhoff
Greg Gompf
Drew Hoisington
Ben Kulow
Jake Oester
Ryan Laude
Kyle Rawlings
Joe Roberts
Pat Rohrbaugh
Ryan Satterlee
Jake Swint
Todd Thomas (4.0 GPA)
Joel Visser
Steve Wenning


Baseball Team GPA's Under Cory Mee
Fall 2003: 2.992
Spring 2004: 3.023
Fall 2004: 3.270
Spring 2005: 3.146
Fall 2005: 3.182
Spring 2006: 3.094
Fall 2006: 3.221
Spring 2007: 3.147