ORONO, Maine -- The America East conference announced on Wednesday, July 15 that a record-breaking 84% of its student-athletes earned Academic Honor Roll status for achieving a GPA of at least 3.0.

A total of 85% of Maine's student-athletes earned America East Honor Roll status for the 2025-26 academic year, with 81% of its spring student-athletes making the 3.0 or higher mark. Maine's women's basketball program saw 100% of its student-athletes earn honor roll status while 92% of the softball squad earned the status to rank second in its sport. The Black Bears had the second most student-athletes honored to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll (3.5+ GPA) with 63.9 percent earning the honor.
 

• This year 84 percent of student-athletes who competed in America East sponsored sports earned Honor Roll recognition for achieving at least a 3.0 GPA during the 2025 fall semester or 2026 spring semesters.
• In total, 60 percent of student-athletes and 2,052 in total earned Commissioner's Honor Roll status for registering a GPA of 3.5 or better.
• Overall 2,887 America East student-athletes were named to the Academic Honor Roll in 2025-26.
• New Hampshire led the league as 88.3% of its student-athletes earned at least a 3.0 this year, followed by NJIT at 87% and Vermont at 86.9%. Binghamton was fourth at 85.3%.
• Bryant had the highest total number of student-athletes earn at least a 3.0 this year with 421, followed by UMass Lowell (367), Binghamton (360) and Vermont (359).
• New Hampshire had the highest percentage of student-athletes named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll at 73.2 percent. Maine was second at 63.9 percent, followed by Vermont (63.2) and UAlbany (61.0).
• Women's swimming & diving had 95% of its student-athletes achieve at least a 3.0 to lead all programs this spring, followed by women's basketball (88%), women's lacrosse (87%) and women's track & field (87%).
• America East student-athletes have averaged at least a 3.0 GPA in each of the last 21 years.
• Four programs had 100% of their student-athletes earn honor roll status during the spring semester:
  • Maine women's basketball
  • UMBC women's lacrosse
  • NJIT women's basketball
  • NJIT baseball.

The Academic Honor Roll reflects grades from the 2026 spring semester as the majority of all competitions in America East sponsored sports took place in the spring.

Below is a complete list of all UMaine spring honorees:

Baseball: 26 of 38 student-athletes recognized