Kansas football team sets academic record

Kansas University’s football team set a team record with a 2.67 grade-point average in the spring 2006 semester, according to statistics released Thursday by Kansas University’s athletic department.

A total of 205 student-athletes – 51 percent of student-athletes on rosters – earned a 3.0 grade-point average or higher to qualify for the athletics director’s Honor Roll.

KU teams achieved a collective 2.93 GPA, the second-highest average in the 20 years of keeping such records at Kansas. Seven teams, led by swimming and diving’s 3.39, recorded GPA’s of 3.0 or better.