WBCA RECOGNIZES IOWA LAKES IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ACADEMIC TOP 25

The Iowa Lakes women’s basketball team was recognized this week as the team with the third highest GPA of all community colleges in the nation.

The Laker women boasted a 3.469 GPA for the 2007-2008 college year. 

“It is a real honor to our players to follow up from being number one in the nation last year to being third in the nation this year,” said Head Women’s Basketball Coach Brian Radtke. “It is a great achievement for them and they are a great core set of student athletes.”

The GPAs are calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by each student-athlete on an institution's roster in the given academic terms by the total number of hours earned by the team. The GPAs are rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point. Per a motion passed by the WBCA Board of Directors in 2007, teams making the list of Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll must obtain at least a 3.000 overall GPA.

Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) promotes women's basketball by unifying coaches at all levels to develop a reputable identity for the sport and to foster and promote the development of the game in all of its aspects as a sport for women and girls.

For more information about Iowa Lakes, please visit www.iowalakes.edu.