Student Athlete Grade Point Average and Team Success
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC 137A
Start Date
21-5-2015
End Date
21-5-2015
Keywords
Athletics, Academics, Football
Abstract
A popular idea in society is that success of a collegiate sport team is based on the recruitment of players that have marginal academic qualifications. I would like to examine this proposition by investigating whether grade point averages of student-athletes are correlated with the team’s performance as measured by the team’s win-loss records. Collecting data from schools participating in the Pacific 12 (PAC-12) and the Greater Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) football programs will also allow for a comparison across types of football programs (Div. I vs. Div. II). Data collected will be in the form of unidentifiable and anonymous grade point averages (GPAs) of the 110-man rosters of the twelve teams in the PAC-12 and the seven teams in the GNAC. Once collected, the data will be analyzed to determine if those teams with higher average GPAs are more likely to have higher or lower win percentages as an overall team
Recommended Citation
Puntenney, Scott, "Student Athlete Grade Point Average and Team Success" (2015). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 50.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2015/oralpresentations/50
Department/Program
Recreation Management
Additional Mentoring Department
Sociology
Student Athlete Grade Point Average and Team Success
SURC 137A
A popular idea in society is that success of a collegiate sport team is based on the recruitment of players that have marginal academic qualifications. I would like to examine this proposition by investigating whether grade point averages of student-athletes are correlated with the team’s performance as measured by the team’s win-loss records. Collecting data from schools participating in the Pacific 12 (PAC-12) and the Greater Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) football programs will also allow for a comparison across types of football programs (Div. I vs. Div. II). Data collected will be in the form of unidentifiable and anonymous grade point averages (GPAs) of the 110-man rosters of the twelve teams in the PAC-12 and the seven teams in the GNAC. Once collected, the data will be analyzed to determine if those teams with higher average GPAs are more likely to have higher or lower win percentages as an overall team
Faculty Mentor(s)
Nelson Pichardo