Four Georgia Tech teams earned NCAA recognition for their academic performance, including the golf team for the 11th consecutive year.
Wednesday, the NCAA honored the teams that finished in the top 10 percent of their respective sports for Academic Progress Rate. Besides golf, Tech’s football, volleyball and men’s swimming teams were also recognized. It’s the third time in the past four years that coach Paul Johnson’s team has been honored.
“Our guys have done a nice job with school,” Johnson said. “We try to make sure they go to class and do what they’re supposed to do, but you have to give them the credit. They’re the guys who are going to school and doing it.”
APR tracks eligibility, graduation and retention and is measured with four-year averages. The most recent scores represent the average of the single-year scores from the 2011-12 academic year through 2014-15.
Coach Bruce Heppler’s golf team has received the APR Public Recognition Award every year since the NCAA began measuring APR. In fact, the team had a perfect 1,000 score every year through the 2013-14 academic year. Scores for the 2014-15 academic year have yet to be released.
This is the third time that four Tech teams have been recognized by the NCAA for APR excellence. The most in one year was five, in 2008-09.
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