General | 9/18/2025 9:45:00 AM
The National College Athlete Honor Society announced the Empire 8 Conference had one of the largst Chi Alpha Sigma classes in the country during the 2024-25 academic year. The Empire 8 ranked fourth out of all NCAA conferences with 457 total student-athlete inductions. St. John Fisher University held the fifth highest induction class in 2024-25 by institutions with 166 student-athlete inductions.
Only the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (1,055), Big Ten Conference (1,020), and College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (473), had higher student-athlete inductions than the Empire 8 in 2024-25. By institution, The Ohio State University (218), Lander University (186), University of Minnesota (169) and Gustavus Adolphus College (167) had higher student-athlete inductions than St. John Fisher.
Chi Alpha Sigma was founded in 1996 by then-DePauw University head football coach Nick Mourouzis. His goal was to provide outstanding student-athletes with an opportunity to become connected within a fraternal association that aligns their educational and athletic successes for a lifetime.
To be inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, a student-athlete must achieve junior or senior academic standing at their institution, complete four full-time semesters or six quarters of college coursework after high school, as determined by the certifying institution, and must have achieved a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.