STATESBORO, Ga. - The Georgia Southern Athletics Department recognized 232 scholar-athletes at Thursday night's football game against Appalachian State. These student-athletes have found a way to balance playbooks and text books, all earning a term grade point average of a 3.0 or higher in the Spring 2016 semester. Among these student-athletes are 86 Dean's List recipients, as well as 40 scholar-athletes who earned a perfect term GPA of 4.0 and were named to the President's List.
Due to competition, the football scholar-athletes from the sports of football were not on the field.
Leading these students across the field and congratulating the student-athletes for academic achievement were University President Dr.