The department’s 3.35 cumulative GPA ranks seventh among the conference award-winning members, while their 73% Academic All-Conference achievement ties for fourth overall alongside the College of Idaho.

General 6/26/2025 5:00:00 PM Clayton Messerle, Assistant Athletic Director

Warrior Athletics Earns CCC Presidents’ Cup Academic Excellence Award for Third-Consecutive Year

CORVALLIS, Ore. – For a third-straight academic school year, Corban University's fifteen varsity sports sponsored by the Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) were rewarded for their commitment to academic excellence earlier this morning, as they were selected as one of ten schools to meet the qualifications for Presidents' Cup Academic Excellence status for the 2024-25 school year. All ten conference members to earn this year's recognition were also recipients in 2023-24, with seven of the bunch joining the Warriors for a third-consecutive award cycle.

To read the CCC's release on the academic award-winning departments across the Pacific Northwest, click HERE.

"This is a prestigious honor from the Cascade Collegiate Conference," began Corban director of athletics Bill Pilgeram. "We are extremely proud of our student-athletes, coaches, faculty, and administrators in earning this recognition for their commitment to excellence in everything they do."

In order to receive the designation, a department must achieve an overall combined GPA of 3.0 or better among all student athletes that compete in sports sponsored by the CCC and declares a champion in, along with having 60% or higher of student-athletes who are eligible to receive Academic All-Conference (sophomore standing/3.2 GPA) recognition. Those varsity sports include men's/women's (M/W) soccer, M/W golf, M/W basketball, M/W wrestling, M/W cross country, M/W track & field, women's volleyball, beach volleyball, baseball, and softball.

The Corban Athletic department averaged a 3.35 cumulative GPA among the above listed sports to hit the first set of qualifications for the award this past school year. They also maintained the necessary 60% of student-athletes who were eligible to receive Academic All-Conference accolades for their respective season of competition by a thirteen percent margin with 73% of all Warriors earning the award in 2024-25, which is three percent higher than it was in 2023-24.

The department's 3.35 cumulative GPA ranks seventh among the conference award-winning members, while their 73% Academic All-Conference achievement ties for fourth overall alongside the College of Idaho. Among the Christian-centered institutions, Corban was just one hundredths of a GPA point behind Northwest University at 3.36 for the top GPA, while holding the highest percentage of Academic All-Conference student-athletes with nearly three-quarters of the rostered Warriors earning the seasonal CCC award. Each benchmark from the ten conference members who earned Presidents' Cup honors this year can be found below.

2024-25 CCC Presidents' Cup Academic Excellence Designation

Institution Overall GPA % Academic All-Conference

Bushnell 3.30 67%

College of Idaho 3.48 73%

Corban 3.35 73%

Eastern Oregon 3.41 72%

Lewis-Clark State 3.44 74%

Multnomah 3.27 62%

Northwest 3.36 67%

Oregon Tech 3.46 76%

Southern Oregon 3.47 76%

Warner Pacific 3.22 73%