From earning the best academic progress rate for the second consecutive year in the Pac-12 to Sun Devils earning academic achievement awards across many sports -- along with earning their degrees -- here are notes, tweets and digits on some of our top academic accomplishments from the 2022-23 school year.
1: For the second consecutive year Arizona State University led the Pac-12 Conference in Academic Progress Rate (APR). ASU recorded a four-year average APR score of 995 (2018-19 to 2021-22) which ties the ASU best set last year.
Our Sun Devils getting it done in the classroom ??#ForksUp /// #O2V
— Arizona State Sun Devils (@TheSunDevils) May 2, 2023
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2: Turner Washington (Men's Track and Field) and Ryggs Johnston (Men's Golf) were both awarded Pac-12 Scholar Athletes of the Year, making it the third consecutive year the Sun Devils have had two athletes win the honor.
Academic weapon ?? Turner Washington is your Pac-12 Men's Scholar Athlete of the Year!
— Sun Devil Track and Field/XC (@SunDevilTFXC) May 13, 2023
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Leader in the classroom and on the course ?????
— Sun Devil Men's Golf (@sundevilmgolf) April 27, 2023
Congratulations to Ryggs Johnston ??, our @pac12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year!#ForksUp /// ?????? pic.twitter.com/m3NX6P5RZD
3: Five-time NCAA Champion Turner Washington earned his third consecutive Academic All-American Team Member of the Year award, earning a perfect 4.0 GPA as an undergrad and having a 3.8 GPA as a graduate student in the sports, law and business program. Washington is the first athlete across all divisions and sports to earn CSC's Academic All-America Team Member of the Year honor three times in a career.
The first ever three-time Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, Turner Washington ?? pic.twitter.com/dFFb9gppvN
— Sun Devil Track and Field/XC (@SunDevilTFXC) June 29, 2023
3.27: The cumulative GPA of all Sun Devil student-athletes in 2021-22.
3.31: The average cumulative GPA all Sun Devil student-athletes from the 2022-23 academic year.
3.53: The GPA of Sun Devil Women's Basketball achieving academic success for the Spring 2023 semester.
3.54 & 3.56: The Fall 2022 GPAs for the Men's and Women's swim and dive teams, respectively which earned them a selection to the CSCAA Scholar All-American team.
3.55: The corresponding GPA of Sun Devil Volleyball throughout the academic year, earning them an AVCA Team Academic Award.
Dedication in the classroom ??
— Sun Devil Volleyball (@SunDevilVB) July 13, 2023
Another team academic award for the squad! ??#ForksUp pic.twitter.com/5rCNBPmGNF
3.61: The corresponding GPA of Sun Devil Beach Volleyball throughout the 2022-23 season earning them an AVCA Team Academic Award, which had nine athletes on the Pac-12 Spring Honor Roll.
The academic awards keep on coming ??
— Sun Devil Beach VB (@SunDevilBeachVB) July 13, 2023
It's a team academic award for the squad! ??#SandDevils /// #ForksUp pic.twitter.com/ceDruIDXuD
4: The Number of Sun Devils to earn National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NWCA) Scholar All-America Honors, including Brandon Courtney, Michael Mcgee, Kyle Parco and Cael Valencia.
4: After being the second golfer in program history to earn Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, senior Ryggs Johnston became the fourth Sun Devil golfer to be named a CSC Academic All-American, the first since 2006.
Congrats to @rjgolfer2000 on earning @CollSportsComm Academic All-American first-team honors! The @pac12 men's golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year and recent @ASU_Alumni will be back for a fifth year in 2023-24. pic.twitter.com/qLwb57NF3V
— Sun Devil Men's Golf (@sundevilmgolf) June 21, 2023
5: The Number of Sun Devils who were awarded College Sports Communicator's (CSC) Academic All-American First-Team honors this year, the 15th time in school history multiple first-team-members have been awarded. It ties the most amount of athletes that have been first-team selections since 2011-12 with five.
SUPER STUDIOUS ????
— Sun Devil Soccer (@SunDevilSoccer) December 6, 2022
Congrats to @EvavanDeursen_ for being recognized on @CollSportsComm 1st Team Academic All-American ??????
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5: The number of Men's Tennis athletes collecting 2023 ITA Scholar-Athlete awards.
Congratulations to Jacob Bullard, Max McKennon, Nico Cigna, Murphy Cassone and Spencer Brachman for being named to the 2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll! ??
— Sun Devil Men's Tennis (@SunDevilMTennis) July 10, 2023
Each athlete also received the 2023 ITA Scholar-Athlete Award ????#ForksUp /// #O2V
5: Women's Golf Showed off in the classroom with five athletes earning a spot on the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
Putting in work as Students AND Athletes ??
— Sun Devil W. Golf (@SunDevilWGolf) July 11, 2023
5?? from @SunDevilWGolf landed on the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll ?? pic.twitter.com/UbWgnh1x6z
5: Along with having five women's golfers on the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll, they also landed five on the WGCA All-American Scholars list.
Scholar Ballers ????
— Sun Devil W. Golf (@SunDevilWGolf) July 26, 2023
5?? Sun Devils were named All-American Scholars by the WGCA ??
That gives ASU 3??4?? Academic All-Americans in the Missy Farr-Kaye era ?? pic.twitter.com/1cuqstG38u
6: The Number of Sun Devil Water Polo athletes named to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation 2023 All-Academic Team.
Whether in the water or in the classroom, our Sun Devils find success! ??
— Sun Devil Water Polo (@SunDevilWP) May 23, 2023
Congratulations to our six Sun Devils for being named to the MPSF All-Academic Scholar Team! ??
Since 2006, 123 Sun Devils have been named to the MPSF All-Academic Team. ??#ForksUp /// #O2V pic.twitter.com/sAia92Ls7s
7: The number of Sun Devil Hockey players that achieved a 4.00 GPA or above in the Spring 2023 semester.
FOUR POINT OHHH ??
— Sun Devil Hockey (@SunDevilHockey) June 13, 2023
Shoutout to our guys who earned a 4.00 GPA or above in Spring 2023 #BeTheTradition pic.twitter.com/BRUaVnpWGx
8: The entire women's tennis roster were named as ITA Scholar Athletes, including earning All-Academic Team with a 3.99 GPA as a team.
Congrats to all eight student-athletes on the 2022-23 squad for being named ITA Scholar Athletes! ??
— Arizona State Women's Tennis (@sundevilwtennis) July 11, 2023
The Sun Devils were also named an ITA All-Academic Team after having a 3.88 cumulative GPA for the school year! ??
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9: Throughout the four-year span, nine Sun Devil programs extended streaks of perfect multi-year scores, with Men's Golf excelling in the classroom with nine straight years of a perfect APR score of 1000.
9: The number of Sun Devil Lacrosse athletes who earned a spot on the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll for achieving a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or greater.Competing on the field and in the classroom ??#ForksUp /// #O2V pic.twitter.com/MyJ1h37unk
— Arizona State Sun Devils (@TheSunDevils) May 2, 2023
For the sixth consecutive year the Sun Devils have been named an Academic Honor Squad by the @IWLCA ??#ForksUp /// #O2V pic.twitter.com/dU0JsYvT3l
— Sun Devil Lacrosse (@SunDevilWLax) July 26, 2023
11: The number of athletes who've earned College Sports Communicator's Academic All-America honors this year, breaking the 2011-12 mark of nine athletes making it the most in school history to have 11 athletes earning the award.
*New Sun Devil Record Alert??
— Sun Devil OSAD (@SunDevil_OSAD) July 10, 2023
We want to honor the 11 student-athletes who have earned their spot as a College Sports Communicators Sun Devil Academic All-American! #O2Vhttps://t.co/xOgPKNpXZ5 pic.twitter.com/v9YeQe4pjt??????The list of accolades for Yanni Acuña gets longer as she is named to the @CollSportsComm Academic All-America® First Team.
— Sun Devil Softball (@ASUSoftball) June 6, 2023
She becomes the sixth player in program history to be named to one of the teams multiple times.
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The first Sun Devil in program history to receive Academic All-America ??#ForksUp /// #O2V pic.twitter.com/FcHSTMTu68
— Sun Devil Lacrosse (@SunDevilWLax) June 22, 2023
12: The number of Sun Devil gymnasts that were on the 2023 Pac-12 Winter Honor Roll, for academic success. The most the program has had!
We have 1??2?? on the 2023 Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll! That's the most we have ever had ??????
— Sun Devil Gymnastics (@SunDevilGym) May 3, 2023
Full list here: https://t.co/FXN40jIH1F#GymDevils /// #ForksUp pic.twitter.com/u6ozCgy2LG
21: The amount of Sun Devil Lacrosse athletes who made the Dean's list in the Fall 2022 semester, with a team-wide GPA of 3.60 and a perfect single-year APR score of 1,000.
Classroom comes first ??@SunDevilWLax STUDENT-athletes recently completed an extremely successful semester academically ??@SunDevil_OSAD /// #O2V pic.twitter.com/w8R65h9ZAT
— Sun Devil Lacrosse (@SunDevilWLax) January 3, 2023
26: The Number of Sun Devil Graduate student-athletes who competed during the 2022-23 school year after obtaining their bachelor's degree.
First day of school but we cant help thinking about some of our recent alumni ?????https://t.co/uarc8UDlOI
— Sun Devil OSAD (@SunDevil_OSAD) January 10, 2023
47: Athletes who went above and beyond while competing as a Sun Devil that graduated with honors this past Spring.
For all of the hard work that was put in through the years, congratulations to all of our Sun Devils in the class of 2023!#ForksUp /// #O2V pic.twitter.com/54Qa5VMDZ1
— Arizona State Sun Devils (@TheSunDevils) May 8, 2023
3.74: The corresponding GPA of the Sun Devil Women's Golf team for the Spring 2023 semester.
15: The number of athletes on the Sun Devil Soccer team who achieved a place on the Fall Academic honor roll after maintaining a 3.3 cumulative GPA or above.
20: The number of Sun Devil Lacrosse athletes who made it onto the Spring Pac-12 Academic Honor roll with a cumlative 3.3 GPA-or-above.
79: The percentage of athletes at ASU who were Scholar-Athletes that have a GPA equal to or higher than 3.0 as of 2021-22.
79: The amount of student-athletes that made the Spring Pac-12 Academic honor roll that have a cumulative 3.3 GPA-or-above.
Congratulations to our 79 student-athletes on being named to the 2023 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll!
— Arizona State Sun Devils (@TheSunDevils) July 10, 2023
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87: The number of Sun Devil student-athletes listed on the 2023 Winter Academic Honor Roll, part of 854 total student-athletes across the conference. See the list here.
87: The GSR for the football program which is an all-time high for the team since GSR scores became available.
92: Sun Devil Athletics matched its all-time high of a 92 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for its student-athletes, and has surpassed its all-time high every year since 2008.
132: The number of student-athletes who achieved a 4.0 semester or cumulative GPA in 2022-23.
134: The amount of Sun Devil student-athletes who earned their degrees in 2022-23.