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JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn - Carson-Newman's beach volleyball team brought home the Director's Cup at the 10th annual Eagle Scholars Ceremony Tuesday evening at Holt Fieldhouse.
The Director's Cup is presented to the top academic team on campus which best represents the values espoused by the Eagle Scholar Program as selected by the Eagle Scholar Committee. Previous winners include women's basketball (2015), baseball (2016), softball (2017), swimming (2018), volleyball (2019), women's soccer (2020) and women's track and field (2021)
A whopping 306 Carson-Newman student-athletes were lauded with status as Eagle Scholars at the event.
Roughly half of Carson-Newman's student-athlete population were recognized during the ceremony.
The 306 honorees barely edges out the previous record. A total 305 where recognized last year, a growth of 25.5 percent from the previous year's record-class of 243. It marks a 10th consecutive year of growth since the program began in 2013 with 72 being recognized.
The Eagle Scholars Program recognizes academic achievements among Carson-Newman student-athletes. To become an Eagle Scholar, student-athletes must have a GPA of 3.25 or higher. Eagle Scholars receive a patch to wear on their uniforms during regular season competition. This year also marks the fourth year that the program also includes the introduction of the Gold Scholars. These honorees will receive a golden patch to wear on their uniforms for maintaining a GPA higher than 3.75. There are 84 such gold scholars in this year's program and 59 Platinum Scholars, which recognizes students with perfect 4.0s.
Carson-Newman is the only school in the South Atlantic Conference to offer such a program.
It was the teamwork of Gloria Walker and Amy Humphrey, then members of the University's Student Success Center that helped to bring the program together in 2013.
2013 - 72
2014 - 93
2015 - 128
2016 - 160
2017 - 177
2018 - 213
2019 - 220
2020 - 243
2021 - 305
2022 - 306
