April 26, 2007

AUBURN - The Auburn men's golf team received public recognition by the NCAA for their perfect 1,000 Academic Performance Rate (APR) score for 2006-07, the NCAA announced Thursday. The Auburn men were the only Southeastern Conference golf program to be recognized by the NCAA.

"We are extremely proud of the men's golf team for receiving public recognition from the NCAA for their outstanding Academic Progress Rate score," said Auburn Athletics Director Jay Jacobs. "Coach Mike Griffin, the student-athletes he has developed and the academic support staff are to be commended. One of our goals is retention of our student-athletes and their overall academic and athletic experience and we appreciate Coach Griffin and his program's commitment towards this goal."

It was the second consecutive year the men's golf program received the recognition for being in the top 10 percentile among men's Division I golf programs and the second time in as many years that it posted a perfect score of 1,000.

The NCAA-developed Academic Progress Rate (APR) is the fulcrum upon which the entire academic-reform structure rests. Developed as a more real-time assessment of teams' academic performance than the six-year graduation-rate calculation provides, the APR awards two points each term to student-athletes who meet academic-eligibility standards and who remain with the institution. A team's APR is the total points earned by the team at a given time divided by the total points possible.