This document updates the Athletic Tracking Study completed by the Palomar College Institutional Research and Planning department in 1999. To complete this study, the authors placed student athletes into cohorts based on the year in which they began participating in the athletic program. They then tracked the persistence and performance of each cohort by semester. For this study they added three new years of cohorts from 1988-89 through 1998-99. Also, for general comparison purposes, they tracked cohorts of first-time full-time students over the same time period. The authors note that this study tracks first-time athletic program participants. A preliminary tracking of students in the cohorts showed that many athletes complete a course at Palomar prior to participating in an athletic program. Key research findings include: (1) persistence from first to second semester for athletes has decreased slightly over time although remaining relatively high (87%); (2) compared with other campus groups, athlete completion rates, including California State University certifications, remain high; and (3) the percentage of "transfer level" units completed by the athlete cohorts increases over time. Appended to this report are tracking tables from each athlete and first-time, full-time cohort that provides data on persistence, degree completion, transfer certifications, and grade point average. (RC)