More than 220 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ student-athletes earned recognition on the 2011-12 Conference USA Commissioner\u2019s Academic Honor Roll.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s total ranked first among all Conference USA public institutions for the sixth-consecutive year.<\/p>\n
Student-athletes named to the honor roll must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better. Student-athletes with a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or better also receive the C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal. Those recipients will be announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s announcement marked the latest of many accomplishments for the Knights in the classroom.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s student-athletes have achieved an overall GPA of at least 3.0 for each of the last eight semesters.<\/p>\n
In October, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ posted a program-best 83 percent Graduation Success Rate, which tied with the University of Florida for the top rating among Florida\u2019s public universities.<\/p>\n
The Knights also have enjoyed success on the field in 2011-12. Six teams have earned national top 25 rankings: men\u2019s golf, men’s and women\u2019s soccer, women’s indoor track & field, women’s outdoor track & field and baseball. The women\u2019s soccer team advanced to the Elite Eight, and the women\u2019s indoor track & field team placed eighth at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.<\/p>\n
Only one member of the 12-school Conference USA placed more student-athletes on the honor roll than Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½. Rice, an elite private school, had 232 student-athletes garner recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 220 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ student-athletes earned recognition on the 2011-12 Conference USA Commissioner\u2019s Academic Honor Roll. Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s total ranked first among all Conference USA public institutions for the sixth-consecutive year. Student-athletes named to the honor roll must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better. Student-athletes with a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or better also receive the C-USA…","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[422,3087,3088,4491,7947,4857,5208],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-34310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-mens-golf","tag-mens-soccer","tag-student-athletes","tag-track-and-field","tag-ucf-athletics","tag-womens-soccer"],"yoast_head":"\n