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Varsity - May 15, 2014

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20 // VARSITY May 15, 2014 BY THE NUMBERS 3.28 3.00 4 142 8,086 Four UW athletics pro- grams were publically recognized this month for posting outstanding Academic Progress Rate scores for the 2012-13 academic year. Men's cross country, women's golf and women's ten- nis all posted perfect scores of 1,000, while the football program's score of 989 ranked No. 3 nationally behind only Duke (996) and Northwestern (991). The women's cross country team boasts the highest cumula- tive GPA of any Wis- consin team at 3.28. The men's tennis team's cumulative GPA of 3.18 is the highest of any men's team. By the end of the sum- mer term, a total of 142 Badgers student- athletes will have received their diplomas in 2013-14. Over the past nine semesters, UW student-athletes have combined to post a cumulative grade-point average of 3.00. UW student-athletes appeared at 278 dif- ferent events during the 2013-14 academic year, combining to volunteer a total of 8,086 hours as part of the Badgers Give Back program. That's a 190% increase over the 4,185 hours volun- teered in 2012-13. ACADEMIC EDITION

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