SAN DIEGO — All seventeen Torero teams achieved a 3.0 GPA or higher and 133 scholar-athletes maintained at least a 3.50 GPA across the 2023-2024 academic year, USD Athletics announced on Wednesday afternoon.

"We would like to congratulate our Torero student-athletes on another outstanding academic performance, and extend gratitude to our graduates who have now made the transition into alumni," said Antwan Joseph, USD's Interim Associate Athletic Director of Academics and Student-Athlete Development. "The student-athletes at USD are the epitome of excellence in class, competition and community."

Women's cross country and track paced the department with a 3.58 GPA in 2023-2024, followed by men's cross country (3.54) and women's swimming and diving (3.47).

All five of USD's teams that qualified for NCAA Tournament action in 2023-2024 boasted a 3.10 or higher, including men's tennis (3.34), men's soccer (3.28) women's tennis (3.22), men's golf (3.20), and baseball (3.13). 

In total, 298 San Diego athletes had GPAs above 3.0 and seven had perfect 4.0s.

Fifty-one Toreros took home All-West Coast Conference Academic Honors in 2023-2024, 47 USD football players earned All-Pioneer Football League Academic recognition, and 21 USD swimmers and divers were named to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation's All-Academic Team.

"The academic accomplishments of our student-athletes are exemplary and indicative of the type of students we have here at USD as a whole," added Kimya Massey, USD's Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Athletics. "We have incredible students who manage so much on a daily basis. We are very proud of them and appreciative of the academic support staff and faculty who support them both on and off the fields of play."

USD's academic successes this past year were punctuated by a trio of individual awards. Softball's McKenna Braegelmann earned the WCC's 2024 Champion of Change Award, baseball's Angelo Peraza was named the 2024 Mike Gilleran Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and swimming and diving's Hannah Hintermeister was selected as a 2024 winner of the University of San Diego's prestigious Alcala Award, of which only four (two to women and two to men) are presented each year.