Today the NCAA released its Academic Progress Rates (APR) and the Ivy League stands atop the measurements. Twenty-nine of the League's 33 championship sports were rated: 17 of those had the nation's top progress rate and seven Ivy rankings were second nationally. The APR measures semester-by-semester progress toward graduation of every individual team in Division I.
In the 20 broad-based sports — sponsored by schools in at least 90 percent of the nation's 31 Division I conferences — the Ivy League had an average ranking of 994 (out of a possible 1,000).
That was, by a wide margin, the top figure in the nation. The Patriot League was second at 984.3 followed in order by the Atlantic Coast Conference (972.4), the Big 10 Conference (972.1) and the Atlantic 10 Conference (972.0). The rest of the top 10 included the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (969.6), the West Coast Conference (968.9), the Big East Conference (968.0), the Colonial Athletic Association (967.7) and the America East Conference (965.7).
In 20 'national' sports, the Ivy League had the nation's best APR in 15 — baseball, men's and women's basketball, women's cross country, football, men's golf, softball, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and field and volleyball.
Of the remaining five 'national' sports, the Ivy League was ranked second in four (men's cross country, men's and women's swimming and diving and men's tennis) and the stellar women's golf rating of 995.2 was third overall.
Captain Walk-On
Josh Greenberg had essentially given up on basketball when he was accepted to Yale. But thanks to a serendipitous meeting with a Villanova assistant, Greenberg is not only a member of the Bulldogs team. He’s the captain.
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Joining The Ranks
The final USA Today wrestling coaches dual-meet poll has been released and Ivy champion Cornell sits in 14th place, eight spots ahead of the Penn Quakers. Individually, the League has someone ranked in each of the 10 weight classes.
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Spiking Into History
In the Ivy League's continued celebration of Black History Month, we sat down with Cornell volleyball coach Deitre Collins to discuss her Ivy title, her inclusion as one of the six best collegiate players of the last 25 years and the role of race and gender in coaching hires.
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Curling Dreams
Ivy Leaguers have performed a wide variety of sports at the Olympic Games over the decades. Everything from golf to skeleton; from taekwondo to rugby; and from biathlon to modern pentathlon. If Princeton junior Matt Mielke has his way, he'll add curling to that list in 2010.
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Harvard Claims Two Titles
The Harvard women's squash team emerged victorious with a 5-4 victory over rival Yale to give the Crimson the 2006 Ivy Championship outright. That followed with the Crimson men, behind a trio of All-Americans, finishing off its own League crown with a 6-3 triumph over the Bulldogs in New Haven, Conn. Harvard shares the men's title with Yale and Princeton.
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Princeton's Pearce a Finalist for the Kazmaier Award
Princeton junior forward Kim Pearce was named by the USA Hockey Foundation as one of the 10 finalists for the 2006 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given annually to the most outstanding player in women's collegiate ice hockey.
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Princeton Claims 2006 Ivy Women's Hockey Crown
Behind 20 saves from goaltender Roxanne Gaudiel, the Princeton women's ice hockey team completed a golden weekend Saturday afternoon by defeating Yale, 3-0, to wrap up its first Ivy League since 1995 and its first outright crown since 1992.
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Harvard Honored with Dual-Meet Trophy
The Harvard Crimson women’s swimming and diving team earned the Ivy League’s Dual-Meet Trophy by going a perfect 7-0 in League meets in 2005-06.
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Tigers Finish Swimmingly
The Princeton Tigers claimed the 2006 Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship Saturday night at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool. The Tigers defeated last year's champion Harvard by more than 100 points.
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Depth Propels Cornell to 2006 Men's Heps Crown
Cornell rebuffed a late rally from Princeton to win its third men's title in the last four years. The Big Red won just two of 19 events, but its depth was enough to carry Cornell to the crown. The 400-meter champion Erison Hurtault of Columbia is pictured.
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Big Red Cruises To Fifth Straight Title
The Cornell women won their fifth straight Ivy Heps Indoor title, but it was Yale's Joslyn Woodard and Princeton's Cack Ferrell (pictured) sharing the hardware as the Most Outstanding Performers of the Meet. Woodard became the most decorated female athlete in Heps' history with victories in the 60, 200 and long jump.
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Breaking New Ground
A football lifer, Norries Wilson was searching for a head coaching position. With the Columbia University Lions, he has become a pioneer.
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Crimson Claims IFA Titles
For the second straight year, the Harvard Crimson swept the team events at the 109th Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships, held over the weekend at Hutchison Gymnasium on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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Three-Peat
The Yale women's squash team was forced to come from behind to defeat Trinity for its third straight national title at the Howe Cup in Cambridge, Mass., on Sunday. Harvard took third place with a victory over Princeton.
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Doctoral Candidate
The Boston Globe's Gordon Edes writes that while one ex-Yale pitcher has moved on to medical research, his old lab partner vies for a spot in the Red Sox bullpen.
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Ivy Weekly Women’s Basketball Awards 14 - 2/27
Princeton sophomore Meagan Cowher averaged 16.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in the Tigers’ first-ever Dartmouth-Harvard road sweep in Princeton women’s basketball history. For her efforts in the pivotal wins this weekend, Cowher has earned Week 14 honors as the Ivy League women’s basketball Player of the Week.
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All Ivy Women's Track & Field
The results of the Heptagonal Games Championships yielded the 2006 Ivy League Champion as well as the Most Outstanding Performer and the All-Ivy team for 2006. Cornell's Sheeba Ibidunni won both strength disciplines — the shot put and the weight throw.
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Ivy Weekly Men's Basketball Awards 14 - 2/27
Penn junior Mark Zoller had double-doubles in victories over Harvard and Dartmouth, and the Quakers inched closer to their second straight Ivy title in men's basketball. For his 15 points and 14.5 rebounds in the two games, Zoller has earned the Week 14 Ivy Player of the Week honors.
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All Ivy Men's Track & Field
The results of the Heptagonal Games Championships yielded the 2006 Ivy League Champion as well as the Most Outstanding Performer and the All-Ivy team for 2006. Brown's Ray Bobrownicki earned his third straight All-Ivy honor by winning the high jump.
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Zucker, Gaudiel Honored by ECAC Hockey
The Ivies have been honored throughout the ECAC Women’s Hockey League season, and they ended the regular season in style. Brown’s Keaton Zucker was named the ECAC Player of the Week and Princeton's Roxanne Gaudiel (pictured) took home the Goaltender of the Week award.
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All-Ivy Women's Swimming & Diving - 2005-06
Five swimmers from four different schools earned multiple individual first-team All-Ivy status at the 2006 Ivy Women's Championship over the weekend. The five were Brown's Eileen Robinson, Princeton's Ellen Gray, Yale's Moira McCloskey and Harvard's Jackie Pangilinan and Noelle Bassi (pictured).
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Dartmouth ECAC Co-Champions
The Dartmouth men’s ice hockey team won its first-ever ECACHL title this weekend, sharing the championship with Colgate. The Big Green are the top seed heading into the ECAC tournament, followed by Colgate and fellow Ivies Cornell and Harvard. Dartmouth’s David Jones also earned Player of the Week honors for his play in the final regular-season weekend.
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Penn Closing in on 2nd Straight Ivy Title
With three games to go, Mark Zoller (pictured) and the Penn men's basketball team have a two-game lead on Princeton for the 2005-06 Ivy League championship. The Quakers would wrap up the outright crown with two wins this weekend.
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Ivies to Watch
The lacrosse season is just getting started and some of the top players in the country are on Ivy rosters this season. Five Ivy women and eight Ivy men have been put on the Tewaaraton Trophy watch list as players who could be vying for the top varsity lacrosse player in the country in 2006.
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Heading To Long Island
On Thursday the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championship will begin at the Nassau County Aquatics Center in East Meadow, N.Y. The championship, which includes the eight Ivy schools plus the Naval Academy, runs through Saturday.
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Stehle, Collins Named Academic All-Americans
Senior forwards Matt Stehle of Harvard and Lenny Collins of Cornell were each named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Teams Wednesday morning, with Stehle making the second team and Collins the third team.
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All-Ivy Women's Ice Hockey - 2005-06
The women's hockey All-Ivy squad has a definite orange-and-black feel. Three of the six members of the first team are from Princeton, including Player of the Year Kim Pearce (pictured). Pearce's teammate, Annie Greenwood, was the unanimous selection as the Rookie of the Year.
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She's All Set
Yale's Jacqueline Becker is graduating as one of the best setters in Bulldogs' volleyball history. But, according to Bulldog Magazine's Carl Williott, she is taking plenty of great experiences with her and has a budding music career to boot.
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Ivies Shine In NCAA Academic Rankings
Today the NCAA released its Academic Progress Rates (APR) and the Ivy League stands atop the measurements. Twenty-nine of the League's 33 championship sports were rated: 17 of those had the nation's top progress rate and seven Ivy rankings were second nationally.
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