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Georgia Tech's 17 athletic programs recorded impressive scores in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate released in May, including five teams with perfect 1000s for the 2005-06 academic year.
"Our coaches and student athletes have done an excellent job in terms of meeting NCAA requirements," said athletics director Dan Radakovich. "We're not where we want to be but we're well on our way. The goal of everyone is for our athletic programs to be as highly lauded as our academic programs."
The APR is the centerpiece of the academic reform package enacted in 2004 to assess the classroom performance of entire athletic teams. Teams must maintain a minimum score of 925, which correlates with a 50 percent anticipated graduation rate, or risk penalties including scholarship reductions or exclusion from postseason play.
The most recent APR data reported scores for 2005-06 in addition to averages of the 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 academic years. Men's golf, women's tennis and volleyball and men's and women's cross country recorded perfect 1000s for 2005-06, the third consecutive year of perfection for the golf team.
Team scores for the three-year period included women's swimming, 996; women's tennis, outdoor track and cross country, 990; women's indoor track, 987; volleyball, 986; men's tennis, 978; men's swimming, 976; baseball, 974; women's basketball, 970; football, 959; softball, 957; men's basketball, 944; men's indoor track, 943; men's outdoor track, 940; and men's cross country, 938.
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