PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The BIG EAST Conference has announced the 23 teams that have been recognized with 2007-08 Team Academic Excellence Awards recognizing the highest collective grade-point averages in each conference sport.

Eight BIG EAST schools had at least one team honored, while Notre Dame had a conference-best six teams recognized. Cincinnati had five teams honored, while DePaul had four, Seton Hall had three, Syracuse had two, and Louisville and Rutgers had one each.

The winning teams included Notre Dame’s men’s tennis, women’s tennis and men’s outdoor track and field teams – all of which captured BIG EAST championships in 2007-08. Louisville’s field hockey team, which won a share of the 2007 regular-season title, and DePaul’s men’s soccer team, which was the winner of the BIG EAST Red Division in the regular season, also were among the honored teams.

The winners were chosen based on the 2007-08 grade-point average of each student-athlete that appears on an institution’s squad list in a particular sport.

2007-08 BIG EAST Team Excellence Award Winners

Sport School

Baseball Georgetown
Men’s Basketball Notre Dame
Women’s Basketball DePaul
Men’s Cross Country Cincinnati
Women’s Cross Country DePaul
Field Hockey Louisville
Football Cincinnati (I had to single this one out)
Men’s Golf Seton Hall
Women’s Golf Cincinnati
Women’s Lacrosse Notre Dame and Rutgers
Women’s Rowing Georgetown
Men’s Soccer DePaul
Women’s Soccer Seton Hall
Softball Seton Hall
Men’s Swimming & Diving Georgetown
Women’s Swimming & Diving Cincinnati
Men’s Tennis Notre Dame
Women’s Tennis Notre Dame and DePaul
Men’s Indoor Track & Field Notre Dame
Women’s Indoor Track & Field Cincinnati
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Notre Dame
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Syracuse
Women’s Volleyball Syracuse

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