Phillylacrossse.com, Posted 8/24/09
West Chester University has been named a Division II Merit Squad for academic excellence by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA). To achieve Merit Squad status, the school must have one of the top three collective GPAs in its division.
Meanwhile, six Philly teams in the Division I level and six more at the Division III level have Academic Squad honors for posting collective GPAs of over 3.0. The Division I teams included Drexel, La Salle, Penn, St. Joseph’s, Temple and Villanova The Division III teams were Bryn Mawr, Eastern, Haverford College, Neumann, Swarthmore, and Ursinus.
Two of the Division I Merit Squads were coached by Philly grads. Stanford (3.523 GPA) is coached by Amy Bokker (Phoenixville) and Hofstra (3.50) s guided by Abby Morgan (Great Valley).
West Chester led all Division II women’s teams in the nation with a collective GPA of 3.407. Recently, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference named 18 members of the team on the league Academic Honor Roll.
Division II
2009 IWLCA Merit Squads (Team GPA)
West Chester 3.407 GPA
Gannon 3.345 GPA
Belmont Abbey 3.21 GPA
2009 IWLCA Academic Squads
Belmont Abbey
Bloomsburg
C. W. Post
Dowling
Gannon
Mercyhurst
Molloy
Pfeiffer
Division I
2009 IWLCA Merit Squads (Team GPA)
Wagner 3.53 GPA
Stanford 3.523 GPA
Hofstra 3.50 GPA
2009 IWLCA Academic Squads
Albany
American
Binghamton
Boston College
Brown
Canisius
Cincinnati
Cornell
Dartmouth
Drexel
Duke
Duquesne
Fairfield
Fresno State
George Washington
Georgetown
Harvard
Hofstra
James Madison
La Salle
Lafayette
Lehigh
Long Island
Manhattan
Maryland
New Hampshire
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Princeton
Quinnipiac
Robert Morris
Rutgers
Sacred Heart
Saint Francis
Saint Joseph‘s
Siena
Stanford
Syracuse
Temple
Towson
Vanderbilt
Vermont
Villanova
Wagner
William and Mary
Division III
2009 IWLCA Merit Squads (Team GPA)
Vassar 3.474 GPA
College of Notre Dame 3.443 GPA
Washington & Lee 3.438 GPA
2009 IWLCA Academic Squads
Allegheny
Alvernia
Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin
Bridgewater
Bryn Mawr
Buffalo State
Catholic
Colby
Connecticut
Denison
Drew
Eastern
Elmira
Elms
Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg
Goucher
Hamilton
Haverford College
Hollins
Manhattanville
McDaniel
Messiah
Middlebury
Misericordia
Mount Holyoke
Nazareth
Neumann
University of New England
TCNJ
North Central
College of Notre Dame
Oberlin
Oswego
Redlands
RPI
RIT
Rowan
St. Lawrence
St. Mary’s
Saint Vincent
Smith
Stevens
Swarthmore
Trine
Trinity College
Tufts
Ursinus
Vassar
Virginia Wesleyan
Washington and Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Western Connecticut State
William Smith
Williams
Wooster
