Carlow University Department of Athletics earns second AMCC Institutional Peak Performer Award

AMCC RELEASE | ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM

LATROBE, Pa. --- The Carlow University Department of Athletics earned the AMCC Institutional Peak Performer Award for the second time in three years, with 74.8 percent of athletes qualifying for the academic all-conference team, the league announced Thursday.

The percentage of student-athletes qualifying for academic all-conference honors bests the AMCC record set by Mount Aloysius College in 2025.

The award is bestowed annually on the AMCC member with the highest percentage of student-athletes named to the Academic All-Conference Team. Carlow student-athletes also captured eight Team Peak Performer awards (men's soccer, women's soccer, women's volleyball, women's cross country, women's tennis, men's tennis, men's golf, and women's basketball), which recognizes the team with the highest collective cumulative GPA in each sport.

Out of Carlow's entire student-athlete population, 98 earned Academic All-Conference honors. Eighty-one earned Peak Performer (3.5 or higher GPA), and 42 were named to Chi Alpha Sigma, the National Collegiate Student-Athlete Honor Society.

Penn State Behrend was the runner up to Carlow, with 61.65 percent of their student-athletes qualifying, and Hilbert College ranked third at 59.6 percent.

Across the conference, 1,129 student-athletes achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher as of the Fall 2025 semester, the standard to earn academic all-conference honors.

Sixty-four percent (721) of those individuals were tabbed Individual Peak Performers for earning a GPA of 3.5 or higher. A special subset of those student-athletes was also selected for induction to Chi Alpha Sigma, the National Collegiate Student-Athlete Honor Society, which recognizes both academic performance, leadership and character for selected juniors and seniors.