LSU WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM WINS NCAA PUBLIC RECOGNITION AWARD
BATON ROUGE - The LSU
women's cross country team received an NCAA Public Recognition Award
Thursday for its exceptional work in the classroom as part of the
NCAA's Academic Performance Program. Each year the NCAA
honors selected sports teams by publicly recognizing their latest
multiyear NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR). This announcement is
part of the overall NCAA academic reform effort and is intended to
highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and
retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their
respective sports. Specifically, these teams posted multiyear
APRs in the top 10 percent of all squads in each sport. The
APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each
semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on
scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and
graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.
We
are pleased that our women’s cross country team is recognized for their
academic performance rate,” said Kenneth O. Miles, Executive Director
of the LSU Academic Center for Student-Athletes. “This symbolizes the
collective effort of coaches, administrators, and members within the
Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes, and I am
pleased to be surrounded by such a committed group of educators. This
public recognition defines us amongst some of the most elite programs
in the country, and it reiterates our commitment to community,
competition, and most importantly the classroom.” The most recent APRs are multi-year rates based on scores from the 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years.
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