CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Citadel Volleyball team scored 100 in the NCAA Graduation Success Rate as announced by the conference office.
"The outstanding graduation success rates of the SoCon institutions are a leading indicator of the educational commitment of the student-athletes that compete across The Southern Conference," SoCon Commissioner Michael Cross said. "Our institutions highly value academic success and knowing their student-athletes are graduating at high rates shows how much the faculty, coaches and athletics staff encourage academic achievement. The intellectual development of student-athletes and their academic success across the SoCon is a tremendous point of pride and celebration!"
The Bulldogs were one of six volleyball programs to record a perfect score of 100 in the graduation success rate.
ABOUT THE GSR
The Graduation Success Rate was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately measure the success of Division I student-athletes.
• The GSR takes into account the many different academic paths followed by today's college students.
• Unlike the federal graduation rate, the GSR holds institutions accountable for transfer students. The GSR also accounts for midyear enrollees and is calculated for every sport.
• By counting incoming transfer students and midyear enrollees, the GSR increases the total number of student-athletes tracked for graduation by approximately 37 percent.
• Under the GSR calculation, institutions are not penalized for outgoing transfer students who leave in good academic standing. These outgoing transfers are essentially passed to the receiving institution's GSR cohort.
• The NCAA also calculates the federal graduation rate for student-athletes, because it is the only rate to compare student-athletes to the general student body.
• This year marks the 22nd year of GSR data that have been collected. The NCAA began collecting GSR data with the entering freshman class of 1995. The latest entering class for which data are available is 2016.
