General | 7/3/2026 2:30:00 PM

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) concluded its week of academic awards Friday by announcing the 2025-26 Top Team GPA Awards, with Gannon earning conference-best team GPAs in four sports and tying for the second-most Top Team GPA Awards in the league.

On Wednesday, the Golden Knights placed 300 student-athletes (156 men and 144 women) on the 2025-26 PSAC Scholar-Athlete list, leading the conference with 69 percent of their student-athletes earning Scholar-Athlete recognition.

On Thursday, Gannon men's soccer senior midfielder Sverre Orten was named the 2025-26 PSAC Pete Nevins Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, becoming the fourth Golden Knight in program history to earn the conference's highest individual academic honor.

Friday's announcement recognized the conference's top-performing teams in the classroom. The Top Team GPA Awards, now in their 15th year, honor the team with the highest cumulative grade-point average in each of the PSAC's sponsored sports.

Gannon led the PSAC in four sports during the 2025-26 academic year, earning Top Team GPA honors in women's cross country, men's golf, men's swimming and women's swimming. The Golden Knights tied East Stroudsburg for the second-most conference-leading team GPAs, trailing only Slippery Rock's seven.

The women's cross country team posted the highest GPA among Gannon's conference-leading programs with a 3.763 cumulative GPA. The women's swimming team followed closely with a 3.737 GPA, while the men's golf team finished with a 3.699 GPA. The men's swimming team rounded out Gannon's conference-best marks with a 3.547 GPA.

In all, 15 of Gannon's 16 teams that compete in the PSAC recorded a cumulative GPA of 3.000 or better. They include: women's cross country (3.763), women's swimming (3.737), men's golf (3.699), softball (3.673), men's cross country (3.655), volleyball (3.591), women's basketball (3.589), women's golf (3.578), women's lacrosse (3.559), men's swimming (3.547), women's soccer (3.513), baseball (3.463), men's soccer (3.388), men's basketball (3.105), and men's wrestling (3.089).

Overall, Gannon finished the academic year with a department-wide cumulative GPA of 3.492.

The Golden Knights also continued their tradition of academic excellence, recording at least four conference-leading team GPAs for the second consecutive year. Gannon has now had at least two teams earn PSAC Top Team GPA honors in each of the 15 years the conference has presented the awards.