Baseball and Tennis Win Academic Awards

Harker teams have won two state academic team championships, the California Interscholastic Federation announced June 8. Harker’s boys tennis and baseball cumulative team GPAs, 3.7960 and 3.64 respectively, won state and section honors. Harker won five North Coast Section academic championships in 2008-09. Along with baseball and boys tennis, Harker earned top honors in boys volleyball, 3.6340; boys soccer, 3.6520; and wrestling, 3.6080. The school will receive a banner for display recognizing the accomplishment. The academic championships were initiated in 1996 to reward teams with the highest collective grade-point averages, based on an unweighted 4.0 scale. The program now encompasses 17 sports and 27 teams.

June 9, 2009Tags: Sports, topathletics