Charleston, S.C. The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) has released the 2007-08 Division I All-Academic Wrestling Team rankings. The Citadel wrestling team broke into the top twenty, placing 19th overall.
The list is comprised of the top 30 teams ranked by the combined cumulative GPA of ten 10 grapplers that wrestled in the conference tournament, along with two others that may have competed for the team throughout the season.
More than half of the Bulldog wrestlers currently hold a 3.0 GPA or higher, which helped the Dogs to their impressive national ranking. The young grapplers have proved their spot both on the mat and in the classroom.
The Citadel was the highest placing team from the Southern Conference Tournament that was recognized. The Bulldogs took fourth as a team with six individual placers at the Mat Jam tournament back in March. Davidson was the only other SoCon program to be honored.
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Top 30 All-Academic Teams
Rank School Name Team GPA
1 American 3.335
(tie) Duke 3.335
3 Liberty 3.286
4 Stanford 3.269
5 Princeton 3.209
6 Gardner-Webb 3.175
7 Brown 3.156
8 Columbia 3.114
9 Campbell 3.109
10 Northern Illinois 3.100
11 Davidson 3.082
12 George Mason 3.062
13 Cal State-Bakersfield 3.060
14 Northwestern 3.038
15 Harvard 3.018
16 Army 3.012
17 North Dakota State 2.973
18 Northern Colorado 2.963
19 The Citadel 2.960
20 Lock Haven 2.949
21 Cornell 2.943
22 Eastern Michigan 2.934
23 Michigan State 2.933
(tie) Navy 2.933
25 Central Michigan 2.922
26 Ohio State 2.919
27 Duquesne 2.907
28 Oklahoma State 2.904
29 Penn 2.901
30 Michigan 2.894
