University of Louisville student-athletes turned in a strong semester in the classroom during the fall semester, with 511 placed on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll. The honor roll recognizes student-athletes with at least a 3.0 grade point average for the semester.
All UofL student athletes combined to produce an average GPA of 3.0 or better for the 22nd straight semester. Cardinal student-athletes achieved a 3.359 collective GPA for 2021 fall semester.
Red and Black Scholar honors were bestowed upon 441 student-athletes for achieving at least a 3.25 grade point average, while 96 student-athletes finished the semester with a 4.0 GPA.
Field hockey led the way for Louisville’s 23 sports, posting a 3.760 team GPA during the fall, with baseball holding the highest team GPA of UofL’s men’s teams at 3.418.
In recent national graduation rates released by the NCAA, UofL student-athletes achieved a record 91% graduation rate to match the Cardinals’ best mark in the Graduation Success Rate Report.
Five Louisville athletic teams – men’s and women’s basketball, women’s cross country, women’s golf and volleyball – received public recognition through the NCAA Academic Performance Program for ranking in the top 10% in the 2015-19 most recent multiyear Academic Progress Rate scores, which measures academic eligibility, retention and graduation for student-athletes. Fourteen UofL programs produced perfect APR scores for the most recent single-year figures.
