Golf and Girls’s Swimming & Diving Earn BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Awards

NEW YORK—Villanova has two winners of BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Awards for 2024-25 because the golf and girls’s swimming & diving groups have been every acknowledged in an announcement by the convention workplace on Thursday morning. The award is offered to the 22 groups that compiled the very best collective grade-point averages in every convention sport in the course of the earlier tutorial yr. This is the eighth time in 15 years the award has been offered that the Wildcats have had a number of winners in a single yr.
 

The winners of the Team Academic Excellence Awards have been chosen primarily based on the 2024-25 grade-point common of every student-athlete who appeared on an establishment’s roster as of the final contest of the championship phase in every conference-sponsored sport. Villanova has earned 27 Team Academic Excellence Awards because the honor was created starting with the 2010-11 tutorial yr. This is the fifth time that girls’s swimming & diving has achieved the distinction and the primary win for the golf group.
 

Women’s swimming & diving led seven BIG EAST groups in its sport with a 3.706 GPA in 2024-25 whereas additionally successful its 12^th consecutive convention title and having 14 members of the group tally All-BIG EAST performances within the pool. Thursday’s award announcement is simply the most recent accolade for the Wildcats for the tutorial excellence of the group’s student-athletes. Villanova earned Scholar All-America Team standing from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) for the 20^th straight semester in Spring 2025.
 
Five members of the group – sophomore Peri Gaguzis, sophomore Anna Farley, junior Alexa Fegley, junior Arabella Lee, and junior Katie White have been named second group CSCAA Scholar All-Americans for having a GPA of at the least 3.5 along with attaining a “B” time commonplace for the nationwide championship or certified for a diving zone qualification meet.
 
Farley was a member of each the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team and the PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Team, whereas Lee and sophomore Meghan Tiernan have been additionally CSC Academic All-District picks. Villanova had 29 student-athletes earn a spot on the Spring 2025 Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for having a semester GPA of three.2 or increased.
 
The golf group led 10 BIG EAST groups with a 3.660 GPA for the tutorial yr. For the sixth straight yr, the Wildcats earned Presidents Special Recognition from the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) when it introduced its 2024-25 Team Awards. Teams are eligible for that distinction by having a group GPA above a 3.5 for the tutorial yr.
 
For the fifth straight yr, a number of Villanova golfers earned All-America Scholar honors for having a stroke common beneath 76 and a GPA over 3.2 whereas taking part in additional than 50 p.c of the group’s rounds performed in the course of the yr. This yr’s honorees included senior Jackson Lehner and the junior duo of Ryan Pamer and Matt Zerfass. Pamer was acknowledged on the CSC Academic All-District Team and moved on to earn consideration on the Academic All-America poll. He mixed these accolades with being a second group All-BIG EAST choice and a PING All-Region honoree. Villanova had 10 picks to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the Spring 2025 semester.
 
In addition to acting at an elite degree within the classroom, the Wildcats tallied their highest end since 2012 on the BIG EAST Championships with a tie for fourth place within the group standings. Pamer tied for seventh place individually and is the second Villanova golfer within the final three years to tally a high 10 end on the convention championships.