LSU Men’s Swimming Posts Perfect Graduation Success Rate

Courtesy: LSU Athletics

BATON ROUGE – The LSU Men’s Swimming and Diving Team posted a perfect score of 100 in the most recent Graduation Success Rate released by the NCAA.

Along with the men’s team, five other LSU sports scored a perfect 100. Those teams include men’s tennis, softball, women’s golf, women’s tennis, and volleyball.

“It’s what we do here,” said LSU head swim coach Dave Geyer. “Bottom line is that the student-athletes in our program are coming here to get an education first and foremost. Our Athletic Department and University provides so many resources for our athletes in and out of the pool to find success. This is concrete evidence of a great system of moving parts to aide our student-athletes.”

“This is a tremendous accomplishment which we are very proud of,” said LSU head diving coach Doug Shaffer. “It is challenging to balance academics with athletics but we always stress the importance of academics and most importantly earning degrees. It is very rewarding to achieve a 100 on the most recent GSR.”

Tiger Graduates

Tyler Harper – Enterprise Resource Planning Officer for CGI Technologies and Solutions

Harrison Jones – Physical Therapy Tech

Alarii Levreault Lopez – Reservoir Engineer for Exxon … Tiger Twelve Class of 2019… CoSIDA Academic All-District … CSCAA honorable mention Scholar All-American … 4.0+ GPA

Matt McClellan – Data Analysis in Houston for Posse Resources

Mitchell Petras – Delaware Basic Drilling Engineer for Anadarko … CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American … Astronaut Scholar (Astronaut Scholarship Foundation) … 4.0+ GPA

Thomas Smith – Software Analyst for Tyson Foods … H. Boyd McWhorter Scholarship Nominee … CSCAA honorable mention Scholar All-American

The NCAA developed the Graduation Success Rate to more accurately assess the academic success of student-athletes. The NCAA began compiling these figures with the entering freshman class of 1995.