Five Teams Post Perfect APR Multi-Year Rates

CHICAGO – The NCAA released the latest Academic Progress Rate report with five DePaul programs posting multi-year rates of 1,000. Women's basketball, women's cross country, men's golf, softball and men's tennis each recorded perfect rates while 11 programs at DePaul surpassed the NCAA overall APR of 983. The overall four-year Academic Progress Rate for Division I student-athletes concluding with the 2017-18 academic year held steady at 983, the highest ever recorded.

Men's golf posted a perfect rate for the 13th time in 14 years while women's basketball held a 1,000 APR for the ninth consecutive year and 10th time overall. The women's cross country team achieved the highest score for the third straight time while softball posted its fifth consecutive perfect score and 10th overall. Men's tennis achieved a perfect mark for the second time in-a-row and third overall.

Women's soccer and volleyball each registered a mark of 997 followed by women's track and field (993), women's tennis (992), men's soccer (988), men's cross country (984), men's track and field (979) and men's basketball (959).

To compete in the 2019-20 postseason, teams must achieve a 930 four-year APR. NCAA members chose the 930 standard because that score predicts, on average, a 50 percent graduation rate for teams at that APR level. Additionally, teams must earn at least a 930 four-year APR to avoid penalties.

The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric where scholarship student-athletes earn one point each term for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that don't offer scholarships track their recruited student-athletes.

Every Division I sports team submits data to have its Academic Progress Rate calculated each academic year. The NCAA reports both single-year rates and four-year rates, on which penalties for poor academic performance are based. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data. The four-year rates include student-athletes who were in school between the 2014-15 and 2017-18 academic years.

Last week, five DePaul programs were recognized with Public Recognition Awards from the NCAA for having multi-year Academic Performance Rate (APR) scores in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. Women's basketball, women's cross country, men's golf, softball and men's tennis were all recognized by the NCAA.

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