POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Six Marist programs – women's basketball, women's cross country, women's tennis, women's track & field, volleyball, and men's tennis – have earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards. These programs were honored for having NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores in the top 10 percent of their respective sports.
 
The APR measures eligibility, graduation, and retention every academic term. The current APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19 academic years.


 

• Women's basketball was honored for the second straight year and fifth time overall.
• Women's cross country was lauded for the fourth consecutive year, and is now an 11-time honoree.
• Women's tennis has earned this distinction four years in a row.
• Beginning in 2015, both outdoor and indoor track & field have been considered a single program. Marist women's track & field has now been honored for four straight years in this manner. Prior to that, the women's indoor and outdoor programs earned this distinction seven times apiece.
• Volleyball has now been lauded nine years in a row.
• Men's tennis was recognized for the second straight year and third time overall.

 
The NCAA Public Recognition Awards program has been in existence for 15 years. In this time, 77 Marist programs have been honored.