Switching gears into student-athlete welfare, what issues is SAAC currently focusing on?
One of the things that we really focused on at our meeting a few weeks ago (and since then) is the Academic Progress Rate (APR) and how to help our student-athletes retain eligibility. By understanding what the APR is, SAAC members are then able to go back out to their teams and help them understand how important it is. If you leave as a junior or a senior and don’t complete the requirements that are necessary for boosting the APR rating for your team, then even though you’ve left your mark on Clemson, you leave a negative effect on the rest of the people that are coming up behind you. It’s important for us because we’re a voice among the student-athletes to educate our teams on what it means to have a good APR rating and to retain eligibility so that the athletes coming up will have the same opportunities that we had.
