OXFORD, Miss. — Seven of Ole Miss\u2019 athletics teams scored above the national average in graduation success rate (GSR).\u00a0 Additionally, women\u2019s basketball, women\u2019s golf, soccer and women\u2019s tennis registered a perfect 100 GSR.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile all of the University of Mississippi\u2019s Olympic sports and W. Basketball teams continue to graduate above the national average, we are most excited about the opportunity we have in the next years to become a national leader in our revenue sports,\u201d said senior associate athletics director Derek Cowherd. \u201cThe student-athletes are working harder than ever before. They are concentrating on meeting the individual and team goals that we\u2019ve set for them, and we have the support of the professors, the University, and athletics department to reach those goals in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s tennis has achieved a perfect score in all nine years since the inception of the rating, while women\u2019s golf received a perfect GSR for the fifth straight year.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s basketball and soccer each earned a perfect GSR for the first time.<\/p>\n
Including the four teams with a perfect GSR, men\u2019s golf (86), men\u2019s tennis (89) and volleyball (92) all posted scores above the national average of 81.<\/p>\n
The GSR measures graduation rates at Division I institutions for student-athletes who entered college as freshmen in 2003-2006 and includes transfers into the institutions. The GSR also allows institutions to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained.<\/p>\n
The NCAA GSR and the Academic Success Rate (ASR) were developed in response to college and university presidents who wanted graduation data that more accurately reflected the mobility among college students today. Both rates improve on the federally mandated graduation rate by including students who were omitted from the federal calculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"