Published on January 25, 2016 by Joey Mullins
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Among Samford’s fall sports, soccer has the most representatives on the team with 10. The football and volleyball teams placed six members each on the team.
As a league, the eight football teams led the way with 80 Academic All-Conference selections, while the 10 women’s soccer schools were second with 73 and the nine volleyball programs were third with 48.
Samford’s 27 student-athletes on the team posted an average grade point average of 3.55.
To be eligible for the team, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA entering the fall season and are required to compete in at least one-half of their teams’ competitions during the recently concluded fall campaign. In addition, the student-athletes must have successfully completed at least 24 credit hours in the previous two semesters.
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 5,791 students from 49 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.