COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College women's cross country and women's outdoor track programs earned Northeast 10 Conference Team Academic Excellence Awards after posting their sports' highest cumulative grade-point average during the 2025-26 school year. Women's cross country earned the award for the fourth consecutive school year, while women's outdoor track was recognized following its inaugural campaign.
 
Both squads are guided by head coach Molly Peters, who finished her 20th season with women's cross country last fall; she also oversees the men's cross country and fledgling men's and women's outdoor track programs. Women's cross country posted a 3.777 GPA behind 14 student-athletes landing on the NE10 Academic Honor Roll, necessitating a 3.0 term, both semesters last school year. Women's outdoor track accumulated a 3.594 GPA thanks to nine of its rostered student-athletes spending the entire school year on the NE10 Academic Honor Roll.
 
Women's cross country's 3.777 GPA was third-best among the NE10's 22 Team Academic Excellence Award winners across all sports for the third time in four years after placing second in 2024-25.
 
The NE10 Team Academic Excellence Award is bestowed upon teams with the top GPA among each of the league's 24 sponsored sports. In all, 91.5% of the programs in the conference accumulated at least a 3.0 GPA in 2025-26. All 19 Saint Michael's programs that compete in the NE10 registered 3.0 GPAs, as did each of the three that do not: women's ice hockey, Alpine skiing and Nordic skiing.