With 15 sports – from the women's golf team to the football squad, from the field house to the diamond, from the track around the gridiron to the woods around campus – we have the intercollegiate competition you seek. Nearly 40 percent of Culver-Stockton students are involved in at least one intercollegiate team. In addition, we have a variety of intramurals for the occasional athlete in everyone.

But Culver-Stockton sees more than the athlete in you. As part of the Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), we are committed to the NAIA Champions of Character program and the belief that athletic participation builds core values: respect, responsibility, integrity, servant leadership and sportsmanship. Participation in this program helps build character, strengthens leadership, and emphasizes the student athlete's personal values and his/her responsibility to be a mentor for younger athletes.

We also see the "student" in every student athlete. Culver-Stockton is as proud of our All Americans as we are of the number of C-SC students who are recognized each year by the NAIA as "Scholar Athletes." Although every C-SC faculty member will work with student athletes to accommodate schedules, every C-SC coach emphasizes that academics comes first. Several teams include group study sessions with the same regularity as team practice.

NAIA member since 1937 Heart of America Athletic Conference member since 1981 17 NAIA All-Americans in five different sports 29 HAAC Championships 134 NAIA Scholar-Athletes since 1985

If you are a student-athlete preparing to enter college, it is important to know the graduation rate of the college that you will be attending. Below is a summary of the graduation rate survey for Culver-Stockton College that identifies the 2001 cohort or freshman class of full-time, first-time, degree seeking undergraduates and student athletes that received athletic financial aid.

The report is provided as an Adobe^® Acrobat^® PDF document and can be viewed using the Adobe^® Reader^®. (You can download this free reader at www.adobe.com.) The report indicates six-year graduation rates, as well as individual rates by sport. The following is information that you should be aware of when interpreting the report:

• Students are reported in only one athletic sport. For example, if they play football and baseball they are only reported in football. The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) has provided the hierarchy to use - football, basketball, baseball, and other sports.
• Only students who receive athletic financial aid are reported. In other words, if they did not receive a scholarship from football and were listed on the team, they are not included on this report.
• Only first-time freshmen are included on this report. Transfers are not included anywhere.
• Other sports are a combination of soccer, golf, volleyball and softball.
• The graduation rate does not consider when a student does not play after the initial cohort year. For example, if a football player enters as a freshman, becomes injured and does not play the remainder of his college years, he is still included in the graduation rate calculation.