{"id":147,"date":"2007-10-31T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/31\/baylor-student-athletes-lead-big-12-in-graduation-rate\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T15:18:43","slug":"baylor-student-athletes-lead-big-12-in-graduation-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/baylor-student-athletes-lead-big-12-in-graduation-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor student-athletes lead Big 12 in graduation rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/gradbear1.jpg\" alt=\"Graduation bear\" align=\"right\" \/>No, this isn&#8217;t a repeat post. About a month ago, we were talking about how <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/04\/baylor-leads-big-12-in-football-graduation-rate-again\/\">Baylor led the Big 12 (again) in football graduation rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/wps\/portal\/!ut\/p\/kcxml\/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4j3CQXJgFjGpvqRqCKOcAFfj_zcVH1v_QD9gtzQiHJHRUUAc0tpTA!!\/delta\/base64xml\/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfTFU!?CONTENT_URL=http:\/\/www2.ncaa.org\/portal\/academics_and_athletes\/education_and_research\/academic_reform\/grad_rate\/2007\/d1_school_grad_rate_data.html\">the NCAA released numbers<\/a> pertaining to the athletic department as a whole, and for the second straight year, <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/genrel\/103007aab.html\">Baylor&#8217;s student-athletes lead the Big 12 Conference in Graduation Success Rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Five Baylor programs (football, baseball, men&#8217;s tennis, women&#8217;s tennis and women&#8217;s golf) led the conference in GSR, while three more ranked second. Men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball each placed third in the Big 12.<\/p>\n<p>I never fully appreciated how hard it is for even the smartest student-athlete to keep their GPA up in-season until I traveled full-time with an athletic team a few years ago. Studying for tests while riding a bus back from Dallas or Houston at midnight on a weeknight after spending the previous few hours sweating on a field somewhere &#8212; well, I couldn&#8217;t have done it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to give some sort of sob story for the athletes, but rather to point out how impressive it is when you read that 44.9% of student-athletes earned a 3.0 or better GPA last fall, or that that number improved to 48.1% this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor student-athletes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this isn&#8217;t a repeat post. About a month ago, we were talking about how Baylor led the Big 12 (again) in football graduation rates. Yesterday, the NCAA released numbers pertaining to the athletic department as a whole, and for the second straight year, Baylor&#8217;s student-athletes lead the Big 12 Conference in Graduation Success Rate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}