After setting a “bold and aggressive” five-year academic plan in 2022, Wichita State Athletics and student athletes have reached a seemingly “unattainable” set of academic goals according to Gretchen Torline, the director of Athletic Academic Services.
The conclusion of the spring 2024 semester yielded a 3.399 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) by student athletes and signaled the last semester before the halfway point of the initiative.
“I can remember back when I started, a million years ago, that we were just … so happy to stay at a 3.0 (department-wide GPA average),” Torline said. “We thought if we could ever get to a 3.