Colorado State University Athletics
CSU soccer, men's cross country recognized by APR
4/13/2016 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Colorado State soccer team and men’s cross country team were recognized Wednesday by the NCAA when it released its list of teams for the Academic Progress Rating (APR) Public Recognition Awards, which highlight programs that have posted multi-year APR scores in the top 10 percent for their respective sports.
This year’s award recognized teams for their APR performance in 2014-15. The most recent APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2011-2012, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years. This is the third consecutive APR honor for the men’s cross country program, while women’s soccer earned the academic honor for the first time in the program’s history.
“As distance runners, we pride ourselves on being great student athletes,” men’s cross country head coach Art Siemers said. “It takes a similar level of dedication and discipline to put in up to 100 miles of running in a week’s training and being successful in the classroom.”
The men’s cross country team enjoyed tremendous success athletically as well, finishing second in the Mountain West and producing two All-Americans, Jefferson Abbey and Jerrell Mock.
The soccer program also showed terrific growth in its third year of existence, finishing second in the Colorado Cup, a season-long tournament consisting of all Division I women’s soccer programs in Colorado.
“”We have a great academic support system in place for our student athletes here at CSU,” soccer head coach Bill Hempen said. “This all takes a team, student athletes and academic support, working together for the common goal of academic success. Good kids working with good people.”
This is the third time that CSU has had multiple teams earn APR honors in the same year since the Public Recognition Awards program began in 2004-05.