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Women's Tennis Posts Perfect APR Score
June 12, 2013 | Women's Tennis, Academic Services
June 12, 2013
The women's tennis team was one of six University of Louisville athletic teams posted a perfect score in the most recent single-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA.
Joining the women's tennis team are the five other UofL sports with a perfect 1000 APR score for the most recent 2011-12 year: men's basketball, men's cross country, men's golf, women's golf, and women's lacrosse. UofL's men's basketball, men's cross country and women's golf teams are among the top 10 percent in their respective sports in the latest multiyear APR, which measures academic eligibility, retention and graduation for student-athletes. Men's cross country and women's golf have a perfect 1000 score for the four-year period from 2008-12 and men's basketball is close to that figure with a 995 score.
The 2013 NCAA men's basketball champion Cardinals have excelled not only on the court, but in the classroom as well. The team produced a collective 3.295 grade point average for the 2012-13 academic year, with a record 3.41 combined GPA for the fall semester, the highest ever for the Cardinals. A total of 15 of 17 Cardinals earned a 3.0 or better for the fall semester.
The women's tennis team is coming off a banner year. The Cards had the highest nationally ranked doubles team of Mandy Brown and Julia Fellerhoff in school history as well as the highest ranked singles player in Becca Shine with Shine making the quarter finals of the ITA Singles Regional and Fellerhoff making the ITA Singles Regional Semi-Finals. Julia Fellerhoff and Rebecca Shine were invited to the ITA All-American Tournament. They both were named to the All-BIG EAST Team for the second straight year. The University of Louisville women's tennis team finished the season in the national rankings for the second time in school history.
The academic achievement is not new to the Cardinals. UofL's men's basketball team earned the 2010-11 and 2011-12 BIG EAST Conference Team Academic Excellence Awards, which recognizes the highest collective grade-point averages in each of the conference's 24 sports (the 2012-13 awards have not been announced yet). The Cardinals' football team posted a combined 2.72 team grade point average over the last academic year and 30 team members were named BIG EAST All-Academic. For the spring semester, 37 football student-athletes earned a 3.0 or better GPA.
All of the 23 Cardinals sports teams -- including 10 men's and 13 women's sports -- have a four-year APR score above 920 and none are subject to any penalties.
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