Thursday, May 09, 2019

UNCW's student-athletes have excelled in the classroom once again, according to the NCAA's 15th round of Academic Progress Rates (APR) released by the governing body of college athletics late Wednesday.

Thirteen of UNCW's 18 teams in the report achieved a perfect APR score of 1,000 for the reporting year of 2017-18. Teams that reached perfection included men's cross country, men's soccer, men's swimming and diving, men's track and field, women's basketball, women's cross country, women's golf, softball, women's soccer, beach volleyball, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and women's volleyball.

The report comes one week after seven UNCW teams collected NCAA Public Recognition Awards for placing among the top 10 percent nationally in the classroom in the multi-year calculation for their sports. The group included men's cross country, women's cross country, women's golf, women's beach volleyball, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and women's volleyball teams.

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