ROSEMONT, Ill. – Penn State Athletics saw 110 student-athletes earn Academic All-Big Ten honors from its fall programs. Florence Caron (women’s cross country), Liam Clifford (football), Dominic DeLuca (football), Tyler Holzworth (football), and Amanda Poorbaugh (women’s soccer) all had perfect 4.0 GPAs.
To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selections, students must be on a varsity team and have been enrolled full time at the institution for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
Among the honorees is women’s soccer’s Kaitlyn MacBean, who recently became the 12th PSU women’s soccer athlete to become a multi-time All-American. Her 2025 season saw 10 goals and an assist for 21 points. She tallied double-digit goals in each of her last three seasons.
Football led the fall team honorees, naming 43 student-athletes to the list. Women’s soccer led on the female team side, with 17 of 18 eligible athletes earning a spot.
Team-by-Team Honorees
Men's Cross Country – 7
Women's Cross Country – 12
Field Hockey – 11
Football – 43
Men's Soccer – 13
Women's Soccer – 17
Women's Volleyball – 7
The latest 110 honorees bring Penn State's total academic honorees to 9,284 since 1991-92.
Penn State Highest Spring Academic All-Big Totals (3.0 GPA):
2021 – 131*
2024 – 117
2017 – 117
2023 – 116
2020 – 114
2025 – 110
2022 – 109
*- School Record
Graduation Success Rates
Penn State student-athletes earned a record-tying 93% NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and 13 programs earned perfect 100% ratings. This is the ninth consecutive year the Nittany Lions have posted a record or record-tying performance in the classroom. Penn State is one of only eight schools that have won at least 10 NCAA Championships since the 2015-16 academic year and earned at least a 90 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) in the 2025 NCAA report (Florida, North Carolina, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Virginia).
The NCAA's annual graduation rates report of Division I institutions across the nation revealed Penn State student-athletes at the University Park campus earned a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 93% to equal the school’s all-time record of 93%, which was set in the 2023 and 2024 NCAA reports. Nittany Lion students posted a 93% graduation rate compared to the 90% average for all Division I institutions for student-athletes entering from 2015-16 academic year through the 2018-19 academic year.
Penn State student-athletes have logged a Graduation Success Rate in the 88-93% range during each of the past 19 NCAA reports, improving from 88% in the 2015 report to a record-tying 93% report in the 2025 report.
Penn State Among the Nation's Most Comprehensive and Successful Athletic Programs
Under the leadership of Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics, Dr. Patrick Kraft, Penn State has one of the nation's most comprehensive and successful athletic programs, featuring 800 student-athletes across 31 varsity programs (16 men's, 15 women's). The Nittany Lions' 31 programs are tied for the fourth-highest number of sports sponsored by a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institution.