5/17/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
May 17, 2011
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV women's tennis team was one of just 15 programs from among all of the sports sponsored by the nine members of the Mountain West Conference to earn a NCAA Public Recognition Award, the school learned Tuesday.
Overall, the NCAA announced that 909 of the 6,385 eligible teams across the nation earned Public Recognition Awards, based on their most recent multiyear Academic Progress Rates. These awards are given each year to teams scoring in the top 10 percent in each sport with their APRs.
Through its APR, which provides an annual scorecard of academic achievement, the NCAA tracks the classroom performance of student-athletes on every Division I sports team. Full APR scores for all teams will be released May 24.
"This is a tribute to the hard work that our girls have done in the classroom and the support we have received over the years from our administration and academic staff," UNLV Head Coach Kevin Cory said. "It's great to see our student-athletes having so much success both on and off the courts."
UNLV women's tennis, which earned a perfect APR score of 1,000, won the 2011 Mountain West Conference regular-season championship with a perfect 8-0 mark and made its fifth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Championships.
