UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
2215 S Brook Street, Louisville, KY 402082772 www.gocards.com

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony with and in subjection to the general education policy of the University of Louisville.

The University of Louisville Athletic Association (ULAA) achieved many impressive results during its 2019-20 fiscal year. ULAA's student athletes excelled academically and were awarded for community service efforts. Cardinal sports teams collectively achieved an impressive 3.332 combined grade point average for the 2019-20 academic year, including a record 3.507 GPA for the 2020 Spring semester. All 23 sports programs were above a 3.0 collective GPA for the 2020 Spring semester, with 84 percent (472 of 562) of the Cardinals' student-athletes earning a 3.0 GPA or better and reaching Athletic Director's Honor Roll status. A total of 117 ULAA student-athletes achieved a 4.0 GPA for the 2020 Spring Semester. Student-athletes also achieved a record 91 percent graduation rate in the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) Report, which was developed 15 years ago to account for transfers into the university who graduate and those who leave in good academic standing. The Cardinals' GSR, most recently reported for freshmen who entered in the 2012-13 academic year, has risen 25 percent since the reporting began 15 years ago. ULAA won the 2019-20 NCAA Team Works Award competition, its second national title for outstanding community service in the six years of the competition. For the 2019 fall semester during the national competition, student-athletes amassed over 6,800 service hours through its CardsCARE community outreach program in the NCAA Team Works Helper Helper Community Service Challenge. The Cardinals have ranked in the top 10 nationally in service hours for six consecutive years. Athletic teams at the organization had tremendous success in a shortened 2019-2020 season. The University of Louisville (UofL) stood at seventh in the nation in the Learfield IMG College Director's Cup Division I fall 2019 national all-sports standings, before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of winter sports championships and nearly all of the spring's sports season. The Cardinals were one of eight ACC schools in the top 20 schools in the Director's Cup fall standings, five more than the next best conference. UofL joined the University of Michigan as one of the only two programs to collectively reach the postseason in fall 2019 in football, men's soccer, women's soccer, field hockey and volleyball. The 2019-20 season was the first time in UofL history that football, men's soccer, women's soccer and field hockey have all participated in postseason competition in the same year. Individual sports programs saw impressive and unprecedented success this year. The Cardinals' football team posted the best turnaround in the nation among Power Five schools, rising to an 8-5 record after finishing 2-10 a year ago, topping the season off with a Music City Bowl victory. The UofL field hockey team, ranked fifth in the nation, won its first-ever NCAA Tournament game before falling in the national quarterfinals. UofL's volleyball team (22-10) advanced to the final eight teams of the NCAA championship -- its highest finish in school history -- while upsetting No. 2 Texas along the way. The Cards' women's soccer team reached the NCAA second round and its men's soccer team advanced to the NCAA's final 16 teams. The women's basketball team finished 28-4, won the ACC regular season championship and was ranked No. 6 in the nation before the NCAA Tournament was cancelled. The men's team achieved a 24-7 record and finished the season positioned eighth in the nation in the NCAA's NET rankings (No. 14 AP, No. 13 USA Today). Louisville was one of five schools with both of its men's (14th) and women's (6th) basketball teams ranked among the nation's top 15 in the final AP poll. UofL's swimming teams performed well with the men (ninth in the nation) and women's (16th) squads both highly ranked before their postseason was cancelled. And finally, the baseball team was the preseason No. 1 team in the nation, finishing their abbreviated season at No. 2.

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