ORLANDO, Fla. – The Sunshine State Conference recognizes 2,254 student-athletes named on the Spring 2025 Commissioner's Honor Roll. The announcement, made on Tuesday, June 24th, by Acting Commissioner Maryanne Simkulak, includes 521 student-athletes with a perfect 4.00 grade-point average for the semester.
Student-athletes must post a minimum grade-point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00 to be eligible for the SSC Commissioner's Honor Roll. Participants in the sports of men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, women's beach volleyball, men's and women's golf, men's and women's outdoor track, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's lacrosse, women's rowing, baseball, and softball are eligible for the spring honor roll.
Rollins was well-represented among the eleven SSC schools. Of the 255 Tars on the list, 36 of them held a 4.0 GPA for the spring semester. The breakdown by sport for the Tars was: Men's Lacrosse (45), Women's Lacrosse (34), Baseball (32), Men's Swimming (24), Softball (19), Women's Rowing (19), Women's Swimming (19), Men's Golf (12), Men's Basketball (11), Women's Basketball (11), Women's Tennis (9), Men's Tennis (8), and Women's Golf (6).
The number of 2025 honorees breaks the previous record of 1,833 student-athletes named to the 2024 Spring Commissioner's Honor Roll. This year's numbers mark the sixth time the SSC has recognized over 350 perfect grade-point averages on the Spring Honor Roll, besting the previous record of 517 perfect grade-point averages set in 2020.
Having won 135 Division II National Championships since the league was founded in 1975, including a league-high eight in 2024-25, SSC student-athletes have proven successful in competition in addition to the classroom. SSC student-athletes recently achieved an NCAA Division II record 90-percent Academic Success Rate (ASR) following the 2023-24 academic year. The SSC ranks first among NCAA Division II conferences in ASR and has never fallen below second in the metric's 18-year history.
