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22 NORTH ALLEGHENY ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
North Allegheny Scholar-Athlete Program
The North Allegheny Athletic Department promotes and recognizes our student-athletes who distinguish themselves through outstanding classroom achievement. We believe in success in the three “A’s” – Academics, Athletics, and the Arts. We emphasize to our student-athletes that their athletic excellence begins with success in the classroom.
It is with great pleasure that I provide you with an overview of our Scholar-Athlete Program for the winter 2023-2024 season.
The Athletic Department recognizes three individual and two team scholar-athlete awards. We use the first nine-week grading period for fall sports, the second nine weeks for winter sports and the third nine weeks for spring sports.
Individual Awards
Unified Boosters Organization Scholar-Athlete Award
The Unified Booster Organization Award provides certificates are given to our student-athletes and marching band members who earned a grade point average of 3.4 or better during their sports/activity season.
Athletic Director’s All Scholar-Athlete Team
The North Allegheny Athletic Department provides All Schol- ar-Athlete Award honors to student-athletes receiving a grade point average of 3.70 to 3.99 during their sports season.
Athletic Director’s All-Academic Award
ing academic achievement by the North Allegheny Athletic Department. Each honoree receives a scholar-athlete t-shirt and special recognition on the North Allegheny Athletics website.
Team Awards
Athletic Director’s All-Scholar Team Award
This award provides special recognition to those high school teams that have earned a total team GPA of 3.2 to 3.49 during their sports season.
Athletic Director’s All-Academic Team Award
This award provides special recognition to those teams that have earned a total team GPA of 3.5 or better during their sports season.
Student-Athletes earning a 4.0 GPA or better during their sports season are granted special honors and distinction for outstand-
Winter Sports
Total Participants .................................................................. 463
NAI/MS
............................ 216 ............................ 161 .............................. 74 ............................. 48 ...........................74% ........................... 3.76 ............................ 123 ................................ 5
Combined Fall & Winter Combined
..................... 685 .............................................. 1,838 ..................... 532 ...............................................1,471 ..................... 278 ................................................. 821 ......................147.................................................379 ....................78%.............................................800% .................... 3.74 ............................................... 3.80 ....................... 25 ...................................................60 ......................... 5 ..................................................... 8
High School Total student-athletes – 3.4 GPA or higher ............................ 371
Number of students – 4.0 GPA or higher .............................. 204 Number of students – 3.7 or higher......................................... 99 Percentage of student scholar-athletes (3.4 & up)............... 87% Overall Fall GPA .................................................................... 3.73 All-Academic Team Awards ...................................................... 13 All-Scholar Team Awards ........................................................... 1
All High School Programs qualified for the Athletic Director’s All-Academic Team Award or the All-Scholar Athlete Team Award.
All 16 of our
JH/MS athletic teams qualified for one of the two team awards.
30 of 31 Winter Athletic Teams (grades 7 – 12) qualified for the Scholar-Athlete Team Program.