Eight student-athletes finish with 4.0 GPA

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA - Eight Lincoln University student-athletes finished the fall term with a 4.0-grade point average as the student-athletes as a whole finished the fall semester with a 2.82 term GPA.

The softball program was the only team with multiple 4.0 student-athletes as sophomore Lakya'h Young (Bel Air, Md./Harford Technical), freshman Jaelynn Barrios (Bayonne, N.J./Bayonne) and freshman Cate Liskey (Richland, Pa./Eastern Lebanon ) achieved the feat. The other student-athletes were senior volleyball player Sequoia Rantin (Baltimore, Md./Eastern Tech), fifth-year senior women's basketball player Bryanna Brown (New York, N.Y./Bishop Loughlin), freshman women's soccer player Theresa Schmid (Ringelai, Germany/Gymnasium Freyung)t, freshman football player Jamal Maloney (Dothan, Ala. /Rehobeth) and sophomore baseball player Damaal Sands (Nassau, Bahamas/Montverde Academy (FL)).

Led by Brown, the women's basketball program posted the highest grade point average, finishing the semester with a 3.38 GPA. Fifty-six percent of the team earned Dean's List recognition, the highest of any program.

The highest male grade point average went to the men's cross country team as 50 percent (4 of 8) of the team earned Dean's List Recognition. The team was the lone men's team to reach the 3.0 mark, finishing with a 3.063 GPA.

In all, 11 of the 13 teams continued academic success with cumulative grade point averages of above 3.0, while five of those programs achieved the feat in the fall term.

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Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), educates and empowers students to lead their communities and change the world. Lincoln offers a rigorous liberal arts education to a diverse student body of approximately 2,200 men and women in more than 35 undergraduate and graduate programs.