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Women's Golf Earns NCAA Public Recognition For Academic Performance

May 16, 2018

TAMPA, MAY 16, 2018 – The USF women's golf team received a Public Recognition Award from the NCAA for earning a high score in the most recent Academic Progress Rate (APR) compilation.

Coach Erika Brennan's women's golf team earned a perfect multi-year APR score of 1,000 for the fifth straight year and eighth time overall to rank among the top 10 percent nationally in APR performance in their respective sport.

USF Athletics has now earned 29 NCAA Public Recognition Awards overall, 19 in the last seven seasons, garnered by eight different programs. The NCAA APR program, started in 2004-05, is in its 13th year.

The awards are intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports.  The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship.  The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance. 

The aggregate 2016-17Academic Progress Rate data for all NCAA Division I institutions will be announced next week. 

USF saw 58 student-athletes earn their degrees during spring commencement ceremonies and a total of 75 earn degrees for the 2017-18 academic year.

About USF Athletics
USF Athletics sponsors 19 varsity men's and women's teams that compete in 11 different sports, 18 at the NCAA Division I level in the American Athletic Conference. The Bulls' athletic program celebrated its 50^th anniversary in 2015, having begun with a men's soccer contest in 1965. Nearly 500 student-athletes train and compete in the athletic district located on the east end of the campus in Tampa, Fla. The Bulls have claimed 15 American Athletic Conference team titles since joining the conference in 2013, including four in 2016-17, and own 112 conference championships overall. Ten USF programs reached national post-season competition in the 2016-17 season and nine were ranked in the Top 25 nationally. The Bulls posted a program-record 86 percent Graduation Success Rate in 2016, have logged an annual department grade-point average over a 3.0 for the six straight semesters, and saw 106 student-athletes earn their degree during the 2016-17 academic period.
 
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