Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Texas State Women’s Tennis Team Publicly Recognized By NCAA

SAN MACROS, TEXAS (April 22. 2009) The NCAA announced Wednesday that the Texas State women’s tennis team was among 800 Division I sports teams who were publicly recognized for their top academic performance as part of the NCAA academic reform program.

This public recognition went to teams that were among the top 10 percent of their sport’s most recent multi-year Academic Progress Rates. The APR provides a real-time look at a team’s academic success each semester or quarter 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. High performing teams receiving public recognition awards this year posted APR scores ranging from 976 to a perfect 1,000.

In addition to Texas State, the other women’s tennis teams which received public recognition included Arizona State, Boston College, Bowling Green, Bradley, Brown, Bucknell, Butler, Coastal Carolina, Holy Cross, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, DePaul, East Carolina, Fairfield, Fordham, Gardner-Webb, George Mason, Georgetown, James Madison, Lafayette, Lehigh, Long Island, Brooklyn-Longwood, Loyola (Maryland), Mercer, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary's, Penn State, Princeton, Rutgers, New Jersey, Saint Joseph's, Saint Louis, Siena, St. Bonaventure, St. Peter's, Stanford, Stephen F. Austin, TCU, California-Davis, Connecticut, Delaware, Denver, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri- Kansas City, UNLV, New Mexico, North Carolina-Greensboro, Charlotte, Northern Iowa, Notre Dame, Penn, Pittsburgh, Wake Forest, Xavier and Yale.

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