CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina women's lacrosse team was honored on Monday by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association as an Academic Squad, honoring the Tar Heels' team GPA.
The IWLCA has recognized 42 schools as earning Academic Squad honors for the 2012 season. Every school with a team GPA of 3.0 or higher earned Academic Squad honors, including NCAA champion Northwestern.
Eleven squads that participated in the NCAA Championships were named as Academic Squads, including UNC.
The Tar Heel team earned its best team grade point average on record (since at least 1999) in the spring of 2012. The squad's combined GPA for the spring was 3.227 (on a 4.0 scale), up from 3.014 in the fall of 2011. UNC academic records for the team go back as far as the 1999-2000 academic year. Twenty-five of 31 players on the squad earned a GPA of 3.0 or better in the spring of 2012.
