April 24, 2008
SPOKANE, Wash. - Gonzaga University had four sports teams represented among the 712 NCAA Division I sports teams honored by the NCAA Thursday with public recognition awards for their latest multi-year Academic Progress Rate scores.
Men's cross country, men's outdoor track, men's tennis and women's golf were the four Bulldog sports teams recognized.
These 712 teams posted multi-year APR scores in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. The teams recognized this year represent 11.4 percent of the 6,272 Division I teams. The list includes 401 women's teams and 311 men's or mixed squads. A total of 192 Division I institutions had at least one team on the top APR list. High-performing teams receiving awards posted APR scores ranging from 965 to a perfect 1,000 over the data collection period.
"Once again I think it shows the emphasis our coaches, student-athletes and administrators put on performance in the classroom as well as performance on the field of competition," Gonzaga athletic director Mike Roth said. "These four sports teams are to be commended for being among the best of the best."
"Congratulations to these teams and their student-athletes for success in the classroom," NCAA President Myles Brand said. "They are setting a great example for their peers and future student-athletes, as well."
The effort is part of a public-recognition program the Division I Board of Directors approved in January 2006. Last year, a total of 839 teams were recognized.
For the second consecutive year, Yale University had the most teams (28) recognized. By conference, the Ivy Group had by far the most number of teams honored (150), followed by the Patriot League (89) and the Big East Conference (47). In all, West Coast Conference membership had 16 sports teams recognized with Gonzaga leading the way with four.
By sport, women's tennis featured the most teams (46), followed by women's volleyball (41) and women's golf (39). The men's sport with the highest number of teams were basketball and cross country (both with 33) and golf (32). This is the first year that basketball led men's sports.
The following is a breakdown of teams from the four sports for which Gonzaga was recognized.
Men's Cross CountryBucknell UniversityCollege of Charleston (South Carolina)Davidson CollegeDuke UniversityEastern Washington UniversityFairfield UniversityGonzaga UniversityIndiana University-Purdue University, Fort WayneJacksonville UniversityLafayette CollegeLehigh UniversityLoyola College (Maryland)Loyola Marymount UniversityLoyola University (Illinois)Radford UniversityRider UniversityRutgers, State Univ of New Jersey, New BrunswickSaint Louis UniversitySt. Bonaventure UniversitySyracuse UniversityUniversity of DaytonUniversity of DelawareUniversity of IowaUniversity of KansasUniversity of Miami (Florida)University of New HampshireUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of South AlabamaUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonValparaiso UniversityVanderbilt UniversityWright State UniversityYale University
Men's TennisBall State UniversityBelmont UniversityBucknell UniversityColgate UniversityCollege of the Holy CrossColumbia University-Barnard CollegeCornell UniversityCreighton UniversityDartmouth CollegeFairfield UniversityFordham UniversityGonzaga UniversityLafayette CollegeLehigh UniversityLouisiana State UniversityNorthwestern UniversityPrinceton UniversityRobert Morris UniversitySt. Bonaventure UniversityU.S. Naval AcademyUniversity of DaytonUniversity of DelawareUniversity of PennsylvaniaVirginia Commonwealth UniversityWinthrop UniversityWofford CollegeYale University
Men's Track, OutdoorBoston CollegeBrown UniversityColumbia University-Barnard CollegeDartmouth CollegeDavidson CollegeDuke UniversityFurman UniversityGeorgetown UniversityGonzaga UniversityHarvard UniversityLafayette CollegeLoyola Marymount UniversityLoyola University (Illinois)Marquette UniversityPrinceton UniversityRice UniversitySaint Louis UniversityU.S. Air Force AcademyU.S. Naval AcademyUniversity of HartfordUniversity of Miami (Florida)University of New HampshireUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of PennsylvaniaValparaiso UniversityWake Forest UniversityYale University
Women's GolfAlcorn State UniversityBoston UniversityBowling Green State UniversityBucknell UniversityButler UniversityCollege of the Holy CrossColumbia University-Barnard CollegeDartmouth CollegeDuke UniversityElon UniversityFairfield UniversityGeorgetown UniversityGonzaga UniversityJames Madison UniversityKent State UniversityLehigh UniversityLong Island University-Brooklyn CampusLongwood UniversityMonmouth UniversityNorthern Illinois UniversityNorthwestern UniversityPepperdine UniversityPrinceton UniversitySamford UniversitySiena CollegeSouthern Methodist UniversityStanford UniversityUniversity of Arkansas, FayettevilleUniversity of DaytonUniversity of Illinois, ChampaignUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Missouri, ColumbiaUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillUniversity of OregonUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of South AlabamaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of WashingtonYale University
