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

Madison, Wis. - University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student-athletes earned the 2025-26 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) All-Academic Award, the league office announced Thursday.  The WIAC All-Academic Award is presented to those institutions with a grade point average of its student-athletes that is equal to, or greater than, the grade point average of the overall student body.  UW-La Crosse student-athletes compiled a 3.401 cumulative grade point average with the overall student body finishing at 3.357.  

It is the 24th time in the last 25 years the UW-La Crosse student-athlete grade point average was higher than the combined grade point average of the overall student body.

All eight institutions, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Stout and UW-Whitewater earned the 2025-26 WIAC All-Academic Award.  It marked the fifth time (2020-21, 2022-25) in conference history every institution earned the distinction. 

UW-La Crosse posted the highest combined grade point average among the eight WIAC institutions with its 3.401. The Eagles have recorded the highest combined grade point average in the WIAC in 20 of the last 27 years.

UW-La Crosse recorded 470 student-athletes, including 282 women and 188 men, with a cumulative grade point average of 3.000 or higher in 2025-26.  

During the 2025-26 academic year, over 50 percent of the student-athletes competing in the conference achieved a 3.000 grade point average or better (on a 4.000 scale) and were named to the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.

Complete list of the 2025-26 WIAC Men's Scholastic Honor Roll

Complete list of the 2025-26 WIAC Women's Scholastic Honor Roll