INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Drake University men's cross country team has been honored with the NCAA Division I Public Recognition Award for ranking as one of the highest-performing teams in the nation in the Academic Progress Rate (APR).
The Public Recognition Awards are given each year to teams with APRs in the top 10 percent in their respective sports. Those receiving Public Recognition Awards recorded multi-year APR that ranged from 985 to a perfect 1,000. The Drake men's cross country team was one of those elite programs to achieve a perfect score of 1,000 for the year ending 2016-17.