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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE GSR & APR NUMBERS its GSR score in each of the past among the league’s top four REMAIN STRONG three years, tied Iowa State and scores. or the sixth consecutive year, Kansas for second-place among Baylor has finished either first or Baylor University ranked Big 12 institutions in 2011, and the second among all Big 12 among the Big 12 Conference trio were followed by Kansas State institutions in GSR scores five times F (78), Oklahoma State (77), Texas leaders in the National Collegiate in the last six years, and produced Athletic Association’s (NCAA) (74), Texas A&M (73), Oklahoma the league’s top mark three Graduation Success Rate (GSR) (71) and Texas Tech (70). times. measurement, as its 2011 GSR The 2011 Graduation Success Rates are In eight sports where score of 79 tied for second among the GSR was league schools behind Missouri based upon the four entering freshmen measured by the basketball (92), men’s golf (88) and recognition awards from the been recognized by the NCAA for (81), and was just under the NCAA, Baylor teams women’s golf (88). National Collegiate Athletics APR excellence. national average (80). classes in Division I from 2001-02 met or exceeded the Baylor, which has finished either Association (NCAA) Division I The Baylor softball team, which Baylor, which has improved through 2004-05, and national threshold in first or second in the Big 12 Academic Performance Program was also honored in 2011, mark the ninth year the their particular sport for Conference in overall student- for having Academic Progress Rate recorded a perfect APR score of NCAA has collected GSR all Division I institutions. athlete graduation rates eight times (APR) scores which rank among the 1000 and was the only Big 12 data. BU produced league-leading in the league’s 16-year history, tied top 10 percent within their softball program to garner national 2011 GSR scores in three sports — respective sport. It marks the In addition, Baylor tied Iowa the University of Missouri for fourth recognition. The Bears’ baseball volleyball (100), softball (100) and among league schools in the 2011 second time both programs have team registered an APR of 990 and State for first-place among league baseball (82), while women’s cross schools in 2011 female student- Federal Graduation Rates Report at was one of two Big 12 baseball country/track & field ranked third 64 percent, a 2 percent programs recognized for APR athlete GSR scores with a 94 with its score of 94. It marked the Baylor has finished either first percent mark, while its male improvement over its 2010 mark. excellence, along with the third consecutive year that the Lady or second among all Big 12 student-athlete GSR score of 64 Baylor has graduated at least 60 University of Texas. BU’s baseball Bear softball team registered the team had also been honored in tied Kansas State for fourth in the Big 12’s top GSR mark. percent of its student-athletes 12 institutions in GSR scores five times since it joined the Big 12 2007. league. Baylor, Missouri and times in the last six years, and Kansas were the only league Other Baylor programs which Conference in 1996. Baylor has now received 10 met or exceeded the 2011 national produced the league’s top schools to have both their male Baylor’s baseball and softball public APR awards in six sports — and female GSR scores rank GSR score in their particular sport men’s cross country (2006 and were women’s soccer (96), women’s programs received 2012 public mark three times. “…these days, it's all special for Baylor.” Suzanne Halliburton, Austin American- Statesman (March 30, 2012) 2011-12 BAYLOR ATHLETICS ANNUAL REPORT 2011), baseball (2007 and 2012), APR average for their respective A school-record 630 Baylor recognition in each of the last 10 student-athletes have earned semester and 121 for the spring men’s basketball (2009), men’s golf sport—baseball, men’s basketball, student-athletes earned 2011-12 semesters. degrees since Baylor joined the Big 2012 term. Of those honorees, 116 (2010), women’s golf (2009 and men’s cross country, football, men’s Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll During the fall 2011 semester, 12 Conference in 1996. recorded a 4.00 GPA in at least one 2010) and softball (2011 and 2012) golf, men’s indoor track & field, status—326 for the 2011 fall 62.8 percent of all BU student- After recording a school-record of the two semesters. Baylor Dean’s since the program was instituted men’s outdoor track & field, semester and 304 for the 2012 athletes posted a GPA of 3.0 or 3.12 cumulative GPA for the spring List recognition is awarded to all seven years ago. The APR provides women’s cross country, women’s spring term. One-hundred-twenty- better, while 59.5 percent recorded 2011 term, Baylor student-athletes students with a 3.7 grade-point a real-time look at a team’s golf, women’s soccer, softball and eight (128) of those were named at least a 3.0 in the classroom for did not allow that mark to stand as average who are enrolled in at least academic success each semester by women’s tennis. with a perfect 4.0 grade-point the spring 2012 term. the record long, as they combined 12 hours and make no grade lower tracking the academic progress of averages for at least one of the two to record a 3.16 GPA for the fall than a C. each student-athlete on scholarship. terms. Student-athletes must Sixty-three (63) Baylor student- BIG 12 & NATIONAL athletes achieved perfect 4.0 2011 term, followed by a 3.14 mark Robert Griffin III was named The APR accounts for eligibility, achieve a minimum 3.0 semester for the 2012 spring one of two 2011-12 Big 12 retention and graduation and ACADEMIC TEAM & grade-point average to earn INDIVIDUAL HONORS semester. In each Sportspersons of the Year, joining provides a measure of each team’s Commissioner’s Honor Roll status. of the last eight Texas’ Kylie Doniak, as the league’s academic performance. Baylor student-athletes semesters, the honorees. The Sportsperson of the In the latest NCAA APR report, continued their winning ways in the cumulative GPA of Year Awards were started in 2000- Baylor had a school-record 249 based on scores from the 2007-08, classroom, too, as a school-record all Baylor teams as 01 to annually recognize student- 149 individuals were selected to 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 student-athletes named to the been above a 3.0, athletes who displayed an academic years, every Baylor 2011-12 Academic All-Big 12 with the last three extraordinary degree of sports - program registered an APR score of teams, including a record 119 first- Dean’s List during the 2011-12 terms (spring 2011, manship and/or community service team honorees. It marked the at least 956 and no teams are academic year, 128 for the fall fall 2011 and during the academic year. This subject to penalty. Baylor’s sport-by- fourth consecutive year BU spring 12) standing year’s winners were selected by a sport 2012 APR scores are: produced 100 or more overall 2011 semester and 121 for the as the three media panel and are also Academic All-Big 12 honorees. Men’s Programs: Baseball (990), spring 2012 term. highest semester nominated for the NCAA’s Sports - basketball (956), cross country (992), Sixteen BU programs produced GPAs in school manship Award. football (956), golf (988), tennis at least two 2011-12 Academic All- history for any Griffin III became not only the (968), indoor track (978) and Big 12 performers, and 15 had Baylor established school semester. face of the Bears’ football program, outdoor track (973). multiple first-team honorees, led by records for fall, spring and total Big grade-point averages during the Fifteen (15) Baylor teams posted but an ambassador of the entire women’s track & field’s 23 first-team 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll Women’s Programs: Basketball fall 2011 term, while 65 registered 3.00 grade-point averages for both university during his four years in selections. All-told, seven Baylor selections during the 2011-12 4.0 marks for the 2012 spring the fall 2011 and spring 2012 Waco. Since his 2008 arrival on (967), cross country (984), golf (993), programs—women’s track & field academic year; the seventh soccer (985), softball (1000), tennis semester. semesters. At the end of the 2012 campus, the quarterback has given (25), equestrian (18), women’s consecutive year it established spring semester, the cumulative freely of his time to the city and (987), indoor track (964), outdoor soccer (16), men’s track & field (16), overall total, fall and spring Some 107 Baylor student- track (968) and volleyball (965). athletes, including six master’s GPA for BU’s 19 teams was a 3.14. Central Texas area. He was a 2011 women’s cross country (11), football semester records. American Football Coaches Twelve of Baylor’s 17 teams that (10) and baseball (10) produced degree recipients, earned degrees Baylor had a school-record 249 Baylor has had at least 200 during fall 2011 (46) and spring student-athletes named to the Association Good Works Team the NCAA tracks for APR scored double-digit 2011-12 Academic All- student-athletes earn Big 12 member and a finalist for the 2010 above the national 2012 Division I Big 12 selections.

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