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Officials name senior vice president, chief of staff
By Fiona Riley, Assistant News Editor • March 26, 2024

Brief: Eleven teams have perfect APR scores in new report

Eleven of GW’s 22 athletic teams received perfect Academic Progress Rate scores of 1000 for the 2008-2009 academic year, according to an NCAA report released on June 9.

The APR report – which lists baseball, women’s cross country, men’s golf, gymnastics, women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, women’s swimming, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and volleyball as GW teams with perfect scores – is designed to track an individual team’s academic performance by awarding a single point for each student-athlete that remains academically eligible and another point for each student-athlete that remains enrolled in the school, according to the NCAA website.

The NCAA calculates the APR every semester and is based on the four most recent academic years (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009). Of the 22 GW teams, five (men’s soccer, men’s tennis, gymnastics, women’s rowing, and women’s tennis) were listed as having received perfect four-year scores.

For the second consecutive year, the men’s basketball team was once again the GW team with the lowest APR. The team’s four-year score of 936 was comparable, however, to that of basketball teams at other local universities such as Georgetown, whose team scored 937, and Maryland, whose team scored 917.

The men’s basketball team’s score also showed a strong improvement from last year’s score of 917, a number that a University news release said was, “due largely to attrition,” an allusion to the 11 scholarship players that have departed early from the program since 2004.

Number Crunch

The number of rounds in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Former GW baseball players Erik Cantrell and Tom Zebroski were selected in the seventh and 45th rounds, respectively.

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