COLONIA, NJ – The East Coast Conference Academic Team of Excellence Awards for the 2024-25 academic year were announced on Thursday. 

The ECC Academic Team of Excellence Award is presented to the team with the highest cumulative grade point average in their respective sport. Molloy led the way with five teams winning the honor. Mercy and Roberts Wesleyan recorded three teams apiece, followed by District of Columbia, Georgian Court, and Staten Island with two each.

There were eight repeat winners of the award. Mercy men’s soccer wins it for a conference-leading sixth consecutive year while D’Youville baseball and District of Columbia men’s and women’s tennis all earn their fourth consecutive accolades. 

82 percent of the conference's teams (118 of 144) achieved a 3.0 team GPA or higher. UDC's tennis teams led the way with the women holding the highest overall GPA of any ECC team (3.91), while the Firebird men had the highest of any men's team (3.83). 

100 percent of the ECC's baseball, men’s tennis, men’s volleyball, women’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, softball, women’s tennis, and women’s volleyball programs achieved a 3.0 team GPA or higher. 

Additionally, six teams saw each member of their squad earn a 3.25 GPA or higher in the Daemen women’s cross country team, District of Columbia women’s tennis team, D’Youville women’s bowling and women’s tennis teams, Mercy women’s volleyball team, and Molloy women’s cross country team.

2024-25 ECC Academic Team of Excellence Award Recipients
Baseball: D'Youville * (fourth consecutive year)
Esports: Molloy
Men's Basketball: Staten Island
Men's Cross Country: Molloy
Men's Lacrosse: Roberts Wesleyan
Men's Indoor Track & Field: Georgian Court
Men's Outdoor Track & Field: Molloy
Men's Soccer: Mercy * (sixth consecutive year)
Men's Tennis: District of Columbia * (fourth consecutive year)
Men's Volleyball: St. Thomas Aquinas
Women's Basketball: Molloy
Women's Bowling: Roberts Wesleyan
Women's Cross Country: Roberts Wesleyan * (second consecutive year)
Women's Lacrosse: Mercy * (third consecutive year)
Women's Indoor Track & Field: Georgian Court
Women's Outdoor Track & Field: Daemen
Women's Soccer: Staten Island
Softball: Molloy * (second consecutive year)
Women's Tennis: District of Columbia * (fourth consecutive year)
Women's Volleyball: Mercy * (second consecutive year)

* repeat winner

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Previous Academic Team of Excellence Award Winners
2023-24
2022-23
2021-22