{"id":40492,"date":"2012-09-05T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=40492"},"modified":"2012-09-05T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:12:43","slug":"ucf-football-owns-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-football-owns-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Football Owns the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40494\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\" class=\"figure\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-football-owns-the-classroom\/may-5-2012-ucf-graduate-athletes-2012-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40494\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img size-medium img-fluid w-100 wp-image-40494\" title=\"May 5, 2012: UCF Graduate Athletes 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/09\/RTG20120505-00741-300x199.jpg\" alt><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img size-medium img-fluid w-100 wp-image-40494 lazyload\" title=\"May 5, 2012: UCF Graduate Athletes 2012\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/09\/RTG20120505-00741-300x199.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Football student-athletes Latavius Murray, Theo Goins and Billy Giovanetti are among the Knights who graduated in the spring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ruling the gridiron and the classroom, the UCF football team has plenty to boast at the start of the 2012 season. Living up to the title of student-athlete, 11 Knights who have already earned their bachelor\u2019s degree have UCF among the leaders in graduated players.<\/p>\n<p>In a survey that went out to all 124 Football Bowl Subdivision&nbsp;schools, the Knights are tied for third with Florida State and trail only Virginia Tech (15) and Pittsburgh (12). In all, eight teams across the nation boast 10 or more graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The stellar group for the Knights includes Rob Calabrese, Rey Cunha, Lyle Dankenbring, Kevin Garvy, Billy Giovanetti, Theo Goins, Brendan Kelly, Latavius Murray, Jordan Rae, Ray Shipman and Phil Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the 11 graduates who each play a significant role on the team, UCF earned an all-time high 79 rating in the NCAA Graduation Success Rate earlier this year and received the Conference USA Sport Academic Award for boasting the highest team grade-point average of all 12 C-USA football programs.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, the Knights have been well represented on the C-USA Honor Roll with at least 35 student-athletes carrying a GPA of 3.0 or better. 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