BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The Wagner College baseball, field hockey, men's tennis, softball, and women's tennis teams earned the NEC Team GPA Award for their respective sports, the conference announced on Thursday.
The Seahawks' five Team GPA Awards are the second most in the conference behind NEC Institutional Academic Award winner Mercyhurst (seven).
Baseball's cumulative 3.548 GPA was good enough for the program's fourth Team GPA title and second in a row, having won previously in 2020, 2023, and 2025. Wagner also claims the NEC Spring Scholar-Athlete of the Year in baseball, and the NEC Male Team Student-Athlete of the Year, both won by graduate student outfielder
Lukas Torres. The Seahawks finished the regular season at 29-24 (23-10 NEC), clinching the no. 3 seed in the NEC tournament, before being eliminated on the second day of the tournament.
Field Hockey won its second Team GPA Award in three seasons, finishing with a 3.698 mark in 2026. The Seahawks finished the regular season 6-3 in the conference and reached their third consecutive NEC Championship game as the no. 3 seed. The Seahawks sent three players to the All-NEC Second Team after the season concluded.
Like the baseball team, Wagner men's tennis earned their second consecutive Team GPA Award with a 3.673 mark. Along with the academic accomplishment, men's tennis also claimed its first ever NEC Championship in April, when graduate student
Tom Lamers clinched the title with a three-set victory at third singles. Lamers also earned the NEC Spring Scholar-Athlete of the Year in men's tennis, wrapping up the Seahawk's historic 2025-26 season.
Softball picked up their second Team GPA Award in three seasons, finishing the academic year with a 3.622 mark. The Seahawks won their first ever NEC Championship in 2026, after earning three straight come-from-behind wins in the tournament. They also sent six players to All-NEC teams, and claimed junior
Karson Zavala as the NEC Pitcher of the Year.
Men's tennis and softball were the only two teams in the NEC this season to win both their respective conference tournaments and the Team GPA Award.
Rounding out the five Wagner Team GPA Award winners is the women's tennis team, who finished with a 3.891 GPA. This is the highest GPA not just among Wagner winners, but across all Team GPA winners in the NEC, edging out LIU women's golf (3.800) for the top mark.
During the season, the Seahawks earned their second straight quarterfinal victory in the NEC Tournament, while sophomore
Victoria Madail earned All-NEC First Team honors in singles, the first time any Seahawk earned that honor for women's tennis.
Wagner's department-wide GPA of 3.429 was the second-highest in the NEC, only trailing Mercyhurst's 3.515 mark.
