Baseball Wins Lone Star Academic Team Title

RICHARDSON, Texas — For the fourth consecutive year, the St. Mary's University Baseball team has won a Lone Star Conference Sport Academic Team Championship, the league office announced on Tuesday.
 
The Rattlers posted the highest GPA of the 13 teams that compete in baseball, posting a cumulative 3.434 for the 2024-2025 academic year. It is the fourth-straight title for the baseball team, which is the longest active streak in the league.
 
"This award is a reflection of the hard work all of our student-athletes put in on their academics," said Executive Director of Athletics Robert Coleman. "For the baseball team to win this four years in a row is a true testament to how St. Mary's prepares our student-athletes for life after graduation."
 
Texas Woman's and St. Edward's claimed the 12th annual Lone Star Conference Academic Excellence Awards presented by Balfour. Texas Woman's captured its third consecutive and record eighth overall women's award, while St. Edward's earned the men's honor for the first time as the athletic departments with the highest collective team grade-point average (GPA) for the 2024-25 academic year. 
 
The overall award winners were determined by a point system, with points distributed according to finish after a conference-wide comparison of team GPAs. The member institution with the highest team GPA in each sport was named the Sport Academic Champion and earned five (5) points toward the overall award. The runner-up in each sport picked up four (4) points and third-place three (3) points toward the overall award. Any program with a Team GPA of 2.00 and above earned one (1) point. Points for each member institution were totaled by gender and then divided by that institution's number of counter programs in that gender to arrive at the comparison value.
 
The Hilltoppers snapped a streak of three-straight wins on the men's side by StMU, narrowly edging out the Rattlers for the title.
 
Since joining the Lone Star Conference, St. Mary's has won four LSC Academic Excellence Awards (2020 Women, 2022 Men, 2023 Men, 2024 Men) and 10 team academic awards.
 
St. Mary's All-Time LSC Team Academic Awards
2024-2025         Baseball
2023-2024         Baseball
2022-2023         Baseball, Women's Golf
2021-2022         Baseball, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis
2020-2021         Women's Golf, Men's Tennis
2019-2020         Volleyball