CAROLINA LEADS ACC PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN APR RECOGNITIONS FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR
CHAPEL HILL – Nine University of North Carolina athletic programs have earned NCAA Recognition Awards for outstanding Academic Progress Rates, the NCAA announced on Wednesday. That marks the third consecutive year UNC has won the most recognition awards among public schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference and ties Rutgers for the most awards won by any public school in the Power 5 Conferences.
The APR measures a team's academic success by tracking the progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation. This year’s awards are based on multi-year rates from data including 2014-15 to 2017-18.
It’s the second year in a row Carolina is tied for the most awards by a Power 5 public school. Notre Dame (14), Northwestern (13), Boston College (12), Stanford (12) and Duke (10) are the only schools in the Power 5 to have more teams earn recognition awards this year. Recognition awards are presented to those teams that finish in the top 10 percent in the nation in their respective sports.
Carolina’s nine teams that received the honor this year include men’s fencing, men’s golf, men’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, women’s fencing, gymnastics, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis. Eight of the nine teams scored a perfect 1000 in the APR from 2014-15 to 2017-18.
The nine teams mark the second-most recognition awards UNC has earned in the 14-year history of the APR. Ten UNC teams won the award a year ago and eight teams were honored two other times.
Notre Dame, BC, Duke and Carolina had nine or more teams honored this year. Other ACC schools to win recognition awards include Syracuse and Virginia with seven; Clemson and Miami with six; Virginia Tech with five; Florida State, Louisville and Wake Forest with four; Pittsburgh with three; and Georgia Tech and NC State with two.
Carolina women’s fencing has finished in the top 10 percent in the country in each of the 14 years the NCAA has sponsored the APR. Retiring head coach Ron Miller’s Tar Heels are one of just 73 programs across the country to have earned the recognition award every year.
Gymnastics earned its 10th consecutive award, men’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis won for the sixth time and women’s swimming and diving won its fourth award. Men’s fencing and men’s soccer are being honored for the third time, men’s golf for the second year and women’s soccer earned its first recognition award.
Men’s teams represented four of Carolina’s nine recognition award winners (44.4 percent). That exceeds the national average where 35.5 percent of the honored teams are men’s programs.
The Power 5 conferences include the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 and Southeastern Conference.
CHAPEL HILL – Nine University of North Carolina athletic programs have earned NCAA Recognition Awards for outstanding Academic Progress Rates, the NCAA announced on Wednesday. That marks the third consecutive year UNC has won the most recognition awards among public schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference and ties Rutgers for the most awards won by any public school in the Power 5 Conferences.
The APR measures a team's academic success by tracking the progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation. This year’s awards are based on multi-year rates from data including 2014-15 to 2017-18.
It’s the second year in a row Carolina is tied for the most awards by a Power 5 public school. Notre Dame (14), Northwestern (13), Boston College (12), Stanford (12) and Duke (10) are the only schools in the Power 5 to have more teams earn recognition awards this year. Recognition awards are presented to those teams that finish in the top 10 percent in the nation in their respective sports.
Carolina’s nine teams that received the honor this year include men’s fencing, men’s golf, men’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, women’s fencing, gymnastics, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis. Eight of the nine teams scored a perfect 1000 in the APR from 2014-15 to 2017-18.
The nine teams mark the second-most recognition awards UNC has earned in the 14-year history of the APR. Ten UNC teams won the award a year ago and eight teams were honored two other times.
Notre Dame, BC, Duke and Carolina had nine or more teams honored this year. Other ACC schools to win recognition awards include Syracuse and Virginia with seven; Clemson and Miami with six; Virginia Tech with five; Florida State, Louisville and Wake Forest with four; Pittsburgh with three; and Georgia Tech and NC State with two.
Carolina women’s fencing has finished in the top 10 percent in the country in each of the 14 years the NCAA has sponsored the APR. Retiring head coach Ron Miller’s Tar Heels are one of just 73 programs across the country to have earned the recognition award every year.
Gymnastics earned its 10th consecutive award, men’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis won for the sixth time and women’s swimming and diving won its fourth award. Men’s fencing and men’s soccer are being honored for the third time, men’s golf for the second year and women’s soccer earned its first recognition award.
Men’s teams represented four of Carolina’s nine recognition award winners (44.4 percent). That exceeds the national average where 35.5 percent of the honored teams are men’s programs.
The Power 5 conferences include the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 and Southeastern Conference.
