NAME THOSE ATHLETES - I can only identify a couple, how about you Poke fans, please post the names of the individual student athletes in the above photo...
if you would, please. Thanks.
(This story was written primarily by Assistant Athletic Director Gavin Lang and there was contribution from Pokes Report publisher Robert Allen.)
STILLWATER – Remember seven years ago when Oklahoma State football was threatened with having to give up one day of practice during the season because of a probationary APR score. The Cowboys heroes were Associate Athletic Director for Compliance Kevin Fite and his discovery of the fact that former walk-on wide receiver Larry Mahsetky had returned to Oklahoma State and had graduated giving the program another point that got them clear of APR issues. There were other extenuating circumstances that head coach Mike Gundy has since changed. He would allow players that were preparing for the NFL Draft to stay on scholarship and many of those players blew off their academic responsibilities. Those policies have also changed and are now granted on a player-by-player situation cleaning up some issues.
The Cowboy football team ranked fifth in the Big 12 with an APR score of 973 – it’s third-highest mark since the NCAA began reporting multi-year data in 2004-05.
The Oklahoma State men’s and women’s golf programs both scored a perfect 1,000 in multi-year NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) data that was released today.For Cowboy Golf, it was the fifth straight year and the 12th time in 16 years that the program has produced a perfect multi-year APR. Cowgirl Golf hit 1,000 for the second consecutive year.
Other OSU highlights included the Cowgirl basketball program setting a program record by scoring 983 and the softball program coming within one point of matching its all-time multi-year best as well.
OSU teams that improved their scores from the most recent APR reporting cycle were led by women’s basketball, which improved 14 points from 969 in 2018-19 to a program-record 983 in 2021-22. Other OSU programs that showed improvement since 2018-19 include women’s cross country (982 to 990), softball (984 to 992) and women’s track and field (983 to 988).
The APR holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term.
Teams must earn a four-year APR of 930 to compete in championships, and every team at Oklahoma State is comfortably above that marker.
The 2021-22 academic year marks the return of the APR after two years off. Prior to this year, the most recent data came from the pre-pandemic 2018-19 academic year.