NEW: Brown Places #2 Nationally in New NCAA Ranking
Thursday, June 21, 2012
In the most recent NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA national office, Brown Athletics ranked #2 in the nation, for the second straight year, out of 335 NCAA Division I schools.
The APR is a measure of eligibility and retention of student-athletes competing on every Division I sports team. The most recent APR scores are based on a multi-year rate that averages scores from the 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years. Teams scoring below certain thresholds can face penalties, such as scholarship losses, restrictions on practice and competition and postseason bans.
Brown's top-shelf performance
Brown’s overall APR is 995, with 14 of its teams earning perfect 1,000 scores. In addition, 20 of Brown’s teams were honored by the NCAA with Public Recognition Awards: baseball, football, men’s basketball, women’s fencing, men’s golf, women’s golf, women’s gymnastics, men’s ice hockey, women’s ice hockey, women’s lacrosse, women’s rowing, women’s skiing, softball, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s swimming, women’s swimming, men’s outdoor track, volleyball, women’s water polo.
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Ivy League schools dominated the top spots with Dartmouth ranked #1 for the first time with 23 teams honored. Brown ranked #2 with 20 teams honored and Harvard ranked #3 with 18 teams honored. There was a five-way tie for #4 with 17 teams each from Penn, Yale, Bucknell, Holy Cross and Notre Dame. Rounding out the Ancient Eight schools in the top 20 were: Princeton (13, t-10th), Columbia (12, 15th) and Cornell (11, t-16th).
The Ivy League holds the top APR among all Division I conferences in 17 of its 29 sports that are NCAA-sponsored sports and are also considered conference-wide sponsored sports.
In the June 14 announcement of the APR Public Recognition Awards, the League led the way in the most teams honored with 131 of the 954 total teams receiving honors. The League’s 131 teams outdistanced all other Division I conferences with the Patriot League second (80 teams), the Big East Conference third (70), the Atlantic 10 Conference fourth (56) and the Atlantic Coast Conference fifth (50).
The Ivy League was the only Division I conference to have commendations for all (eight) of its football teams. Seven of the eight Ivy schools were recognized in baseball, women’s basketball and softball. Six League schools were recognized in women’s golf and men’s outdoor track & field. The six Ivy League schools with men’s ice hockey teams were recognized with NCAA Public Recognition Awards.
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