GORHAM, Maine – Three-hundred two of the approximately 450 University of Southern Maine student-athletes were announced as part of the Little East Conference Academic Honor Roll for the 2025 Fall semester. The conference office listed a total of 2756 student-athletes competing in the conference's 24 championship sports from the full and associate Little East Conference member institutions as recipients of this academic distinction.
To be named to the LEC Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must earn a semester GPA of 3.00 or better and have been an active member of the team at the conclusion of the season. The LEC Academic Honor Roll debuted in 2020. The Little East Conference also awards All-Academic team honors during each playing season (fall, winter & spring with a different criteria).
Husky student-athletes from each of the 22 Little East Conference championship sports sponsored by the University of Southern Maine (Huskies' Athletics does not sponsor men's and women's swimming & diving, and USM wrestling does not compete in the Little East Conference) were represented on the list.
One hundred eighty-six of the Huskies honored are members of the University of Southern Maine's 12 women's team competing in the Little East Conference, while 151 student-athletes were recognized from the 10 men's teams. Broken down by sport, Southern Maine student-athletes achieving a 3.00 or better grade point average or better: women's indoor and outdoor track & field (32), women's soccer (29), baseball (28), men's lacrosse (26), men's ice hockey (22), men's indoor and outdoor track & field (21), field hockey (19), men's soccer (19), softball (19), women's ice hockey (18), women's basketball (16), women's lacrosse (15), men's basketball (14), women's cross country (11), women's volleyball (11), men's cross country (10), women's tennis (9), men's golf (7), women's golf (7), mem's tennis (4). Of note, with several multi-sport student-athletes competing in the Little East Conference, there is overlap among teams resulting in 337 roster spots earning a 3.0 or higher GPA, and 306 individual student-athletes.
At the completion of the fall 2025 academic semester, Husky student-athletes continued live out the Division III philosophy combining for a strong 3.269 grade point average. Of the 22 Husky teams in the Little East Conference, 20 programs combined for a team GPA of 3.0 or higher, and 21 of the Huskies' 23 teams overall had a 3.0 or higher grade-point average. Huskies' women's ice hockey leads the way as the women's team with the highest team GPA of 3.703 while the men's ice hockey team has 3.311 has the best GPA for men's programs. Three programs had a team GPA of 3.5 or higher: women's soccer (3.510), women's cross country (3.612), and women's basketball (3.615).
With academic majors ranging from Elementary Education, Biology, Music Education, Mechanical Engineering, Economics, Exercise Science, Linguistics, Chemistry, and more, 53 University of Southern Maine student-athlete earned a remarkable 4.0 grade point average during the fall semester.
The University of Southern Maine will host its 37
th Annual William B. Wise Scholar Athlete ceremony on February 22. A record 379 student-athletes will be honored as Wise Scholar-Athletes at the department's annual ceremony highlighting students maintaining a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average during the previous academic year (2024-2025).
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