Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU Tennis Team Listed as NCAA Honors High Academic Achievement
April 22, 2009 | Women's Tennis
April 22, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The NCAA is honoring Division I sports teams with public recognition awards for their latest multi-year NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR), and the Bowling Green State University tennis team is on that list. Each of the nearly 800 teams listed posted multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. The public recognition awards are part of the broad Division I academic reform effort.
The Falcon tennis team, coached by Penny Dean, earns the honor for the third consecutive year.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete. The APR includes eligibility, retention and graduation in the calculation and provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport.
The most recent APR scores are multi-year rates based on the scores from the 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years.
High-performing teams receiving public recognition awards this year posted APR scores ranging from 976 to a perfect 1,000, said NCAA President Myles Brand.
"The vast majority of sports teams are performing very well academically and exceeding the 925 threshold for their APR scores," Brand said. "Nearly 800 of these teams are worthy of special attention, and I commend them for their excellence in academics and athletics."
The 767 teams publicly recognized this year for high achievement represent 11.9 percent of the approximately 6,484 Division I teams. The list includes 448 women's teams and 319 men's or mixed squads.
A total of 205 institutions, out of 331 Division I colleges and universities, placed at least one team on the top APR list. Another six schools that offer athletics in more than one division, out of 50 overall that do so within the NCAA, placed Division I teams on the list as well.
For the third consecutive year, Yale University had the most teams (28) recognized. By conference, the Ivy Group had the most number of teams honored (144), followed by the Patriot League (85) and the Big East Conference (60).
Last year, a total of 712 teams were recognized. The number of teams in some sports may exceed 10 percent depending on how many achieved perfect 1,000 APR scores.
Multi-year APRs for all Division I sports teams, including the teams receiving public recognition awards, will be announced Wednesday, May 6.
The NCAA's official release CAN BE FOUND HERE. The NCAA release contains links to the entire list of teams honored, sorted both by institution and by sport.
