Notre Dame: The Smartest College Athletes

Notre Dame took other schools to the cleaners this past week—not on the playing field, per se, but in the classroom.  Notre Dame led all Football Bowl Subdivision schools, all 119 of them, with 14 athletic program awards for multi-year Academic Progress Rate Scores. That means that there were 14 programs that were in the top ten percent in the nation academically for more than one year in a row.  The athletic programs getting multi-year honors include: men’s baseball, men’s basketball, men’s cross country, men’s golf, men’s ice hockey, men’s soccer, men’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field, women’s fencing, women’s rowing, women’s soccer, women’s softball, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball.

Congratulations to all the Notre Dame student-athletes, who truly put the “student” in student athlete. Notre Dame has had a long tradition of academic success, combined with supreme athletic achievement in all kind of sports- not just basketball and football.  It comes as a surprise to few that Notre Dame was able to beat out other high-achieving D-1 Bowl schools, like Stanford, Cal, Texas, Duke and Boston College.

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