Georgia Athletics

NOTABLE NUMERALSt 47

UGA has captured 46 national championships in 11 different sports, with 29 of those coming in

the 2000s.

UGA registered a graduation rate 86 of 86 percent in the most recent NCAA statistics, with five sports posting a perfect 100 percent. A total of 52 former Georgia 52 football players were on NFL rosters for the opening weekend of the 2022 season. UGA student-athletes combined 11 to win 11 medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, including three Gold Medals. Seventeen of UGA’s 21 athletic 17 programs have posted top20 finishes in their national championships during the 2000s. Georgia have finished as one of 24 the nation’s top-25 programs in the NACDA Director’s Cup allsports rankings for 24 consecutive years.

UGA IN 2020:

PRO PICKS & CHAMPIONS

> UGA was the only school with a former player on the 2020 Champions of the

NFL (Mecole Hardman), MLB (Alex

Wood) and NBA (KCP below). > In 2020, UGA became just the fifth school to have top-10 selections in the NFL (Andrew Thomas, No. 4 by the Giants), MLB (Emerson Hancock, No. 6 by Seattle) and NBA (Anthony Edwards, No. 1 by Minnesota) in the same draft cycle.