Student-athletes set school GPA record.

Last year at Youngstown State University there was history made by their student athletes. They collectively has a 3.05 cummulative grade point average with 23 of their athletes having 4.0 GPA, while 176 achieved 3.0. Sophmore Vicky Rumph stated that, "Athletics really pushes me to do well in school because it gives me a specific time that I can set away for homework." I found this interseting because many athletes make the excuse that their athletics takes up a majority of their time and it causes them to lack in their studies. But not for the student athletes at this university. The coaches kept their athletes focused by "enforcing mandatory study table hours to all players regardless of grade and grade point average." I feel that coaches should be required to force their athletes to attend study hall. However, that isn't the case everywhere, coach tell their athletes to go to study hall but aren't monitoring if they are actually getting their grades up.