The Gulf South Conference announced that West Alabama’s Aileen Charles was named as the GSC Champion Scholar-Athlete for women's soccer, prior to kickoff of the 2025 GSC Championship semifinal match between West Alabama and West Florida.
 
CHAMPION SCHOLAR-ATHLETE HISTORY
 
Charles, a senior from Tuscaloosa, Ala., earned the GSC Champion Scholar-Athlete Award with a 4.00 grade point average while majoring in finance. She is West Alabama’s sixth recipient of the award and the first from the women’s soccer program.
 
This is the seventh year that the Gulf South Conference has presented the Champion Scholar-Athlete Award. The award is given out at the final site of each GSC Championship event and awarded to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA among teams participating. Each student-athlete GPA is based on the most recently completed term, and the individual must have a minimum of 48 credit hours to be eligible for the award. Student-athletes are only eligible to win the award once per academic year.