ATLANTA — The BYU women’s basketball team posted the 31st-highest team GPA in the country during the 2025-26 season and was named to the WBCA Academic Honor Roll on Tuesday.
The WBCA Academic Top 25 recognizes collegiate women’s basketball teams across the nation in their respective divisions that carry the highest combined GPAs, including all student-athletes on their rosters for the entire season. To be recognized, a team must maintain a combined GPA of 3.0 or higher and be nominated by its head coach, who must be an active WBCA member. The 2025-26 season marks the 31st year the WBCA has compiled its academic honor rolls.
In his introductory press conference in March 2025, head coach Lee Cummard emphasized that “excellence is the expectation, and that is how we do everything.” That standard has proven to apply as much to classroom performance as it does to success on the court.
During the 2025-26 academic year, BYU registered a cumulative team GPA of 3.639 and a winter semester GPA of 3.73—both representing the program's highest marks since at least 2017. Individually, six players maintained GPAs above 3.50 across both the fall and winter semesters, while 14 of the roster's 15 student-athletes currently hold a cumulative GPA of 3.21 or higher.
The Cougars return eight players to the 2026-27 roster. They will be joined by four newcomers as BYU enters its fourth season as a member of the Big 12 Conference.