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La Salle student-athletes boast a 90% graduation rate for students who have exhausted their eligibility, which is among the nation's leaders.
Since 1996, 42 student-athletes have been recognized as Academic All-Americans.
La Salle was identified as the 53rd best men’s basketball program of all-time by Street and Smith's college basketball publication.
La Salle is one of 17 schools to win both the post-season NIT (1952) and NCAA (1954) Tournaments.
La Salle has had three NCAA National Basketball Players of the Year (Tom Gola, Michael Brooks, and Lionel Simmons).
La Salle has three of the top five point scorers in Big Five history (Simmons, Brooks and Gola).
The 1980 Women's Field Hockey team won the National Championship.
La Salle has had 17 Olympians, including four gold medalists.
Track and Cross-Country Coach Charles Torpey has received 16 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year Honors.
The Men's and Women's Cross Country teams have won a combined 13 Atlantic 10 Championships during the past 12 years.
The Athletic Department's Project Teamwork was honored for the ninth consecutive year by the National Consortium for Academics and Sports for its community service and youth outreach program.
La Salle student-athletes graduate at a higher rate than the University student body La Salle student-athletes have a higher grade point average than the University student body as a whole
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Did You Know La Salle Has
• The most National Scholar-Athletes of the Year in 2009-10 in the NCAA
• The most Student-Athletes of the Year (six) of any Atlantic 10 school since the Fall, 2009
• The most student-athletes on the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll for the fourth straight semester
• Four Atlantic 10 Coaches of the Year since Fall, 2009
• La Salle Field Hockey had the top GPA nationally in 2004 and 2008 and second-best in 2003 and 2009
• Two National Scholar-Athletes (Academic All-Americans) named by the Men’s Soccer Coaches' Association in 2010
• The Atlantic 10 Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Year, who was also drafted by the Philadelphia Union of the MLS
• A nationally-recognized community service program (Project TeamWork)
