MORAGA, Calif. — In what became a different spring semester for Gaels Baseball, there were two different forms of success: on the field, and in the classroom. Once the season was suspended and ultimately cancelled, the Gaels hit the books hard during the spring semester, en route to a recent best in term grade point average for the entire time. As a unit, the Saint Mary's College Baseball team put up a 3.27 team grade point average for the 2020 spring semester.
 
To break down the numbers further, 24 of the 38 student-athletes on the roster posted GPAs north of 3.0, which comes out to 63% of the team. 13 of those 24 featured GPAs of 3.50 or better, with two Gaels putting up perfect 4.0's in the spring: Connor Linchey and JC Santini. Linchey enjoyed the success as a freshman, a difficult feat to accomplish, and Santini did so while rehabbing from a back injury that prevented him from playing during the 2020 season.
 
Nearly as impressive as the term GPA is the cumulative GPA that the Gaels sport at the end of the 2020 school year: 3.14. This number shot up with the term GPA as 11 Gaels set personal bests for grade point average during a semester.
 
The baseball team was one of 15 Gaels teams to record GPAs of 3.0 or better during the spring semester. Of the 98 student-athletes recognized at the 2020 President's Scholar-Athlete Luncheon in April, ten of those came from the baseball team. 
 
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