Dallas, Texas - FIU Women's Basketball has been honored with Conferences USA's Sport Academic Award, league officials announced Thursday. The Sport Academic Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest GPA for the academic year.

Women's hoops ended the academic year with a 3.40 GPA, highest among CUSA women's basketball teams. The team had nine players who earned a 3.0 GPA or higher, and four players who recorded a GPA of 3.75 or higher.

Additionally, FIU was the only CUSA team to have two players selected to the CUSA All-Academic Team in Courtney Prenger and Olivia Trice, with Prenger ending with a 4.0 GPA and Trice ending with a 3.92 GPA. Prenger, along with Maria Torres, were also named as College Sports Communicators Women's Basketball Academic All-District recipients.

Women's basketball is coming off a historic year that saw the team win 20+ games for the first time since the 2011-2012 season, and their first appearance in the WNIT since the 2012-2013 season.

The following is a list of all Sport Academic Award honorees:

Baseball – DBU

Men's Basketball – Liberty

Women's Basketball – FIU

Men's Cross Country – Jax State

Women's Cross Country – Liberty

Football – NM State

Men's Golf – WKU

Women's Golf – WKU

Women's Soccer – WKU

Men's Tennis – Jax State

Women's Tennis – UTEP

Men's Track and Field – Liberty

Women's Track and Field – LA Tech

Softball – UTEP

Volleyball – Liberty

Beach Volleyball – Florida Atlantic

Bowling – Youngstown State

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