SANTA CLARA
2010-11 by the numbers

Santa Clara has climbed to No. 67 on Forbes magazine's most recent list of America's top 650 colleges and universities. The annual ranking focuses on the quality of student-teaching, student satisfaction, career prospects, academic awards and level of student debt at graduation. That puts Santa Clara in lofty company, ahead of schools like Michigan and Cal, and well ahead of each of the other eight schools in the West Coast Conference. This comes on the heels of a report last year listing Santa Clara No. 34 among all U.S. colleges and universities in salaries of graduates, and the most recent listing of top schools by U.S. News and World Report, which ranks Santa Clara No. 2 among all regional colleges and universities in the West.

Recently Bianca Henninger, (women's soccer) Tanya Schmidt (volleyball) and Eric Masch (men's soccer) were all named candidates for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Awards this fall as well. There are only 30 in each sport and Santa Clara is the only school in the country to have a candidate in all three sports. The award recognizes the attributes of senior student-athletes in four areas: community, classroom, character and competition.

The collective student-athlete cumulative GPA is now an impressive 3.09, after the athletes posted an all-time single-term high of 3.14 for the spring term. Additionally, the graduation rate for Santa Clara athletes in the most recent tracking cohort is 86 percent, just one point shy of the school's overall graduation rate.

• 3.092 Cumulative GPA for Bronco student-athletes.
• 122 WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll selections.
• 45 All-WCC selections.
• 36 WCC All-Academic selections.
• 15 All-ACWPC All-Academic selections.
• 15 Teams earned 3.0 GPA or higher.
• 10 PCSC Commissioner's Honor Roll selections.
• 8 All-WWPA selections.
• Six Capital One Academic All-District VIII honorees.
• Five WCC Players of the Month.
• Three teams honored by NCAA for APR.
• Three All-Americans.
• Three CollegeInsider.com All-Americans.
• Two All-PCSC selections.
• Two WCC Freshmen of the Year.
• One Capital One Academic All-American.
• One Louisville Slugger's Freshman All- American.
• One WCC Defender of the Year.
• One NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship Award winner.
• One WCC Post-Graduate Scholarship Award winner.