Syracuse Earns BIG EAST Conference Academic Excellence Awards

Syracuse had four teams cited with BIG EAST Conference Academic Excellence Awards. The honor recognizes the program with the highest collective grade-point average in each of the 25 conference sports.

The Orange were winners in football, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and women's volleyball.

Eleven BIG EAST schools had at least one team honored, with Providence finishing with a conference-best five teams recognized. Like Syracuse, DePaul had four teams recognized, while Cincinnati, Louisville, Notre Dame and St. John's had two each. Georgetown, Rutgers, USF and West Virginia all had single teams represented.

The winners were chosen based on the 2009-10 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appears on an institution's squad list as of the last contest of the championship segment in each conference-sponsored sport.

2009-10 BIG EAST Team Excellence Award Winners

Sport	School
Baseball	Notre Dame
Men's Basketball	West Virginia
Women's Basketball	DePaul
Men's Cross Country	Cincinnati
Women's Cross Country	Louisville
Field Hockey	Louisville
Football	Syracuse
Men's Golf	DePaul
Women's Golf	St. John's
Men's Lacrosse	Notre Dame
Women's Lacrosse	Cincinnati
Women's Rowing	Rutgers
Men's Soccer	DePaul
Women's Soccer	St. John's
Softball	DePaul and Providence
Men's Swimming & Diving	Georgetown
Women's Swimming & Diving	Syracuse
Men's Tennis	USF
Women's Tennis	Syracuse
Men's Indoor Track & Field	Providence
Women's Indoor Track & Field	Providence
Men's Outdoor Track & Field	Providence
Women's Outdoor Track & Field	Providence
Women's Volleyball	Syracuse

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Syracuse Earns BIG EAST Conference Academic Excellence Awards

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