Baseball improves APR scores, avoids severe NCAA penalties

By: Jonathan Ramos / Asst. Sports Director When the NCAA released its Academic Progress Rates a year ago, the baseball team accumulated a four-year average of 873 en route to its second historical penalty, which limited them to sixteen practice hours a week. In light of the most recent report released this past May, the program’s four-year average remained at 873, which would’ve resulted in severe historical penalty-occasion three penalties. However, the school filed a historical penalty waiver for baseball looking to get relief from penalties on the grounds that the program has shown great improvement. As a result of the waiver, the NCAA relieved FIU of the occasion three penalty and once again handed…