{"id":45659,"date":"2017-07-24T03:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=45659"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:26:14","slug":"rockets-rank-no-22-nationally-in-gpa-among-womens-golf-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_24_2017\/rockets-rank-no-22-nationally-in-gpa-among-womens-golf-programs","title":{"rendered":"Rockets rank No. 22 nationally in GPA among women&#8217;s golf programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UT women&#8217;s golf program was honored for its outstanding classroom performance this year by earning its greatest recognition to date from the Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association. The Rockets&#8217; 3.723 team grade-point average during the 2016-17 academic year ranked No. 22 nationally (17th among NCAA Division I programs), with Jacksonville University leading the way with a remarkable 3.924 GPA.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_45676\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=45676\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45676\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/womens-golf-team.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/womens-golf-team.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/womens-golf-team-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rockets&#8217; 3.723 team grade-point average during the 2016-17 academic year ranked No. 22 nationally \u2014\u00a017th among NCAA Division I programs \u2014 according to the Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association.<\/p><\/div>&#8220;What a great honor for our student-athletes,&#8221; Head Women\u2019s Golf Coach Nicole Hollingsworth said. &#8220;We have only been on this list once before in the history of this award, and this year&#8217;s grade point average is our best yet. I am so proud of their hard work in the classroom, golf course and community. What an awesome award to end the year!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toledo registered a school record 3.780 cumulative GPA in the 2017 spring semester and has posted team grade-point averages above 3.00 in 27 of the 28 semesters under Hollingsworth.<\/p>\n<p>The Women&#8217;s Golf Coaches Association is a nonprofit organization representing women&#8217;s collegiate golf coaches. The association was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockets&#8217; 3.723 team grade-point average during the 2016-17 academic year ranked No. 22 nationally \u2014\u00a017th among NCAA Division I programs \u2014 according to the Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45684,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659\/revisions\/45684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}