IRVINE, Calif. – Dominican University won the 2021 PacWest Academic Achievement Award with a record GPA of 3.623, leading the conference to its highest average GPA at 3.312 in conference history.
 
For the third year in a row, a new PacWest record was set for the highest average GPA among student-athletes at an institution. In 2019, Dominican set a new PacWest record at 3.47 for the Penguins’ ninth Academic Achievement award as a school. Last year, Point Loma won the Academic Achievement Award for the first time with a record-setting GPA of 3.499.
 
Dominican retook the record this year with its 3.62 GPA for the 10th Academic Achievement Award for the school. Point Loma’s student-athletes improved their average GPA from last year’s record-setting number to 3.52, which is now the second-highest GPA in conference history.
 
Azusa Pacific had the third-highest GPA of this year and the fourth-highest in conference history as the Cougars posted a 3.48 GPA which is also a school record. Biola recorded a 3.45 GPA which is also a school record and the seventh-highest average in conference history. Biola’s mark would have been record-setting just three years ago.
 
Chaminade had the conference’s fifth-best GPA this season at a 3.40, and Hawai`i Pacific was also right above the conference average with a 3.34 GPA. Holy Names improved its GPA from last year from 3.20 to 3.26 to help boost the conference’s average by eight-thousandths from last year. The conference’s average of 3.31 is higher than the GPA of four of the previous Academic Achievement Award winners from 2009 to 2012.