Football Nicolle Holcomb
The Lone Star Conference Academic Excellence Award presented by Balfour was announced Thursday morning, along with the individual sport academic champions for the 2020-21 year.
Eastern New Mexico’s football team earned the sport academic championship with the highest team GPA out of all LSC football programs. The Greyhounds posted a team GPA of 2.767 for the year.
Award winners were determined by a point system, with points distributed according to finish by sport in those that the LSC sponsors after a conference-wide comparison of team GPA’s. The member institution with the highest team GPA in each sport was named the sport’s Academic Champion and earned five (5) points toward the overall award. Each sport’s runner-up picked up four (4) points and third-place three (3) points toward the overall award. Any program with a Team GPA of 2.00 and above earned one (1) point. Points for each member institution were totaled by gender and then divided by that institution’s number of counter programs in that gender to arrive at the comparison value.
Below are all of the sport academic champions.
| Men’s Sport | Academic Champion | GPA |
| Baseball | UT Tyler | 3.331 |
| Men’s Basketball | St. Edward’s | 3.423 |
| Men’s Cross Country | UT Tyler | 3.641 |
| Football | Eastern New Mexico | 2.767 |
| Men’s Golf | West Texas A&M | 3.528 |
| Men’s Indoor T&F | UT Tyler | 3.451 |
| Men’s Outdoor T&F | UT Tyler | 3.451 |
| Men’s Soccer | UT Tyler | 3.590 |
| Men’s Tennis | St. Mary’s | 3.623 |
| Women’s Sport | Academic Champion | GPA |
| Women’s Basketball | Lubbock Christian | 3.783 |
| Women’s Cross Country | Western New Mexico | 3.789 |
| Women’s Golf | St. Mary’s | 3.873 |
| Women’s Soccer | UT Tyler | 3.692 |
| Softball | Angelo State | 3.662 |
| Women’s Indoor T&F | UT Tyler | 3.455 |
| Women’s Outdoor T&F | UT Tyler | 3.455 |
| Volleyball | Texas Woman’s | 3.826 |
| Women’s Tennis | UT Tyler | 3.904 |
