2024-25 Gopher Athletics Year in Review - University of Minnesota Athletics

TEAM (NATIONAL)

▸ Spirit Squad - UCA/UDA Small Coed Game Day Cheer & Dance Pom National Champions
Won the program's first cheer and 23rd dance national title

TEAM (CONFERENCE)

▸ Men's Hockey - Big Ten Regular Season Champions
Won third title in the last four years and seventh regular-season title in 12 seasons of B1G Hockey

INDIVIDUAL (NATIONAL)

▸ Kostas Zaltos (NCAA Outdoor Track & Field)
Became first Gopher since 2018 to win NCAA Track & Field title; had sixth-longest throw in NCAA history; became four-time All-American

INDIVIDUAL (CONFERENCE)

▸ Annie Nabwe (Big Ten Indoor Track & Field)
Became fifth Big Ten weight thrower to win back-to-back conference titles

▸ Gable Steveson (Big Ten Wrestling)
First heavyweight and 19th overall to win four league titles in Big Ten history // Second Gopher to win four B1G titles

▸ Kostas Zaltos (Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field)
Became the first to win four Big Ten hammer throw titles with a new championship meet record

▸ Charles Godfred (Big Outdoor Track & Field)
Repeated as Big Ten long jump champion // Just eight centimeters shy of Jesse Owens' meet record set in 1933

▸ 4x100M Relay Team (Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field)
(Zion Campbell, Kion Benjamin, Aaron Charles and Devin Augustine)
Broke their own Big Ten Championship record and upset top-ranked USC to win the title

▸ Annie Nabwe ( Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field)
Won her first outdoor B1G title and third of her career after posting school record in the hammer throw

▸ Student-athletes semester GPA: 3.45 (Spring 2025)
For the sixth consecutive semester, all sport programs are above a 3.0 GPA in both their semester and cumulative GPAs

▸ Student-athlete cumulative GPA: 3.46 (Spring 2025)
School Record

▸ Graduation Success Rate: 95%

▸ Academic Progress Rate (APR): 14 programs with a perfect APR score; six programs have a perfect 1,000 multiyear rate

▸ Academic All-Americans: 8
T-4th in Big Ten / T-8th in Nation

▸ Academic All-District: 62
1st in Big Ten / 1st in Nation

▸ Academic All-Americans since the 2016-17 academic year: 84

▸ Academic All-Big Ten: 389 (343 in 2023-24)

▸ Big Ten Distinguished Scholars: 140 (121 in 2023-24)

▸ Learfield Directors' Cup Standing: 39th