{"id":11714,"date":"2025-05-28T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=11714"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:41:08","slug":"mizzou-student-athletes-complete-a-record-setting-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/05\/28\/mizzou-student-athletes-complete-a-record-setting-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou student-athletes complete a record-setting semester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mizzou Athletics celebrates Spring 2025 student-athlete graduates.\" class=\"wp-image-11721\" style=\"width:325px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/20250504_ATH_ALTGRAD-19-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mizzou Athletics celebrates Spring 2025 student-athlete graduates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This spring, our student-athletes set a new standard for excellence with a <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2025\/5\/22\/general-mizzou-student-athletes-achieve-another-record-setting-semester-in-classroom.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cumulative grade-point average of 3.402<\/a> \u2013 the highest spring GPA in Mizzou Athletics history! Our student-athletes have posted a cumulative GPA above 3.0 for an incredible 17 consecutive semesters. Eight programs also achieved individual record spring GPAs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tigers continue to excel in the classroom while also competing for championships, including impressive showings from our men&#8217;s and women\u2019s track and field teams. At the Southeastern Conference Track and Field Championships, Kristi Perez-Snyman and Valentina Barrios were <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2025\/5\/20\/track-field-track-and-fields-perez-snyman-barrios-earn-all-sec-honors.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">named to the All-SEC First Team and Second Team<\/a>, respectively. Kristi became the first women\u2019s team member in Tiger history to win gold in high jump, recording a leap of 1.90m (6-2.75) and setting a new school record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/high-jump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/high-jump.jpg\" alt=\"Mizzou\u2019s Kristi Perez-Snyman with her gold medal in women's high jump.\" class=\"wp-image-11716\" style=\"width:325px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/high-jump.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/high-jump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/high-jump-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/high-jump-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/high-jump-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mizzou\u2019s Kristi Perez-Snyman with her gold medal in women&#8217;s high jump.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Across both teams, <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2025\/5\/23\/nineteen-tigers-qualify-for-ncaa-track-field-west-regional-championships.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nineteen track and field student-athletes<\/a> progressed to this week\u2019s NCAA Track and Field West Regional Championships. We look forward to cheering their continued success!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou student-athletes are the pride of Missouri. We are pleased to celebrate their hard work and many accomplishments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, our student-athletes set a new standard for excellence with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.402 \u2013 the highest spring GPA in Mizzou Athletics history! Our student-athletes have posted a cumulative GPA above 3.0 for an incredible 17 consecutive semesters. Eight programs also achieved individual record spring GPAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}