BGSU Athletics Posts Impressive APR Scores
by Jason Knavel, Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Communications
5/24/2011 2:18:38 PM
Bowling Green, Ohio – Sixteen of Bowling Green’s 18 sports either retained or improved its Academic Progress Rate (APR) multi-year score from a year ago and both the football and men’s basketball programs posted their highest single-year APR scores since the report began in 2003-04, as released by the NCAA today. All 18 of BGSU’s teams exceed the APR minimum multi-year score of 925 and seven teams posted a perfect single-year score of 1000.
“Once again, we are proud of the work our student-athletes continue to do in the classroom,” Mark Shook, BGSU’s Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Student-Athlete Services, said. “These results represent the total team effort from the student-athletes committed to their academic pursuits to the coaches who recruit and support them to the support staff we have put around them.”
The football team had a single-year rate of 965 to push its multi-year APR score to 941. The multi-year rate is the average of the last four single-year rates. Two years ago the team took scholarship reductions for a multi-year score below 925 but since head coach Dave Clawson took over the program, the rate improved to 931 a year ago before a 10-point increase again this year.
The men’s basketball team posted its highest score ever, a 980 single-year score for a multi-year rate of 928. The women’s basketball team had its second-highest single-year score ever with a 984, improving its multi-year rate to 979. The ice hockey team showed a 50-point single-year increase from a year ago with a 974 score, but its multi-year rate dropped one point to a 963.
Seven teams posted a perfect 1000 single-year APR score, two more than a year ago. Men’s cross country, men’s golf, men’s soccer, women’s golf, women’s soccer, swimming, and tennis all had scores of 1000.
The women’s tennis team had a perfect multi-year score of 1000, the same score it has received every year of the APR, and received public recognition a week ago for being in the top 10 percent of all teams within that sport.
Both swimming (993) and women’s golf (991) had multi-year scores above 990, while women’s cross country (987), women’s soccer (985), softball (984), gymnastics (980), and volleyball had scores of 980 or better. After women’s basketball’s 979 score, the baseball, indoor track, and outdoor track programs all scored 967. The hockey team had a 963, men’s soccer had a 955 and men’s golf posted a 951. Football had a 941, while men’s cross country had a 935 and men’s basketball scored 928.
APR scores are based on retention and eligibility of each scholarship student-athlete. Each student-athlete can earn four points per year – one point for first-semester eligibility, one point for first-semester retention, one point for second-semester eligibility, and one point for second-semester retention. The total points earned are then divided by total points possible and the decimal place is dropped for the APR score.
The APR is a real-time measure of eligibility, retention and graduation of student-athletes competing on every NCAA Division I athletics team. The most recent scores are based on a multi-year rate that averages scores from the 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10 academic years. The goal of academic reform is improvement, not punishment. Not only does academic reform ensure accountability for student-athletes, teams and institutions, but it also provides fairness by considering individual circumstances per team and school.
BGSU MULTI-YEAR APR SCORES
Baseball – 967
Men’s Basketball – 928
Men’s Cross Country – 935
Football – 941
Men’s Golf – 951
Ice Hockey – 963
Men’s Soccer – 955
Women’s Basketball – 979
Women’s Cross Country – 987
Women’s Golf – 991
Gymnastics – 980
Softball – 984
Women’s Soccer – 985
Swimming – 993
Women’s Tennis – 1000
Indoor Track and Field – 967
Outdoor Track and Field – 967
Volleyball - 980
I blame Gregg Brandon for the improvement by the football program.
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