INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Boise State men’s tennis and Hawai‘i women’s volleyball teams were honored today by the NCAA with public recognition awards for their latest multiyear NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores.
These awards are given each year to teams scoring in the top 10 percent in each sport with their APRs.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester or quarter by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete. The APR includes eligibility, retention and graduation in the calculation and provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport. High-performing teams receiving public recognition awards this year posted APR scores ranging from 976 to a perfect 1,000.
“The vast majority of sports teams are performing very well academically and exceeding the 925 threshold for their APR scores,” said NCAA President Myles Brand. “Nearly 800 of these teams are worthy of special attention, and I commend them for their excellence in academics and athletics.”
The 767 teams publicly recognized this year for high achievement represent 11.9 percent of the approximately 6,484 Division I teams. The list includes 448 women’s teams and 319 men’s or mixed squads.
A total of 205 institutions, out of 331 Division I colleges and universities, placed at least one team on the top APR list. Another six schools that offer athletics in more than one division, out of 50 overall that do so within the NCAA, placed Division I teams on the list as well.
Last year, a total of 712 teams were recognized. The number of teams in some sports may exceed 10 percent depending on how many achieved perfect 1,000 APR scores.
Multi-year APR scores for all Division I sports teams, including the teams receiving public recognition awards, will be announced May 6. The announcement also will include immediate and historical penalties for low-performing teams. The most recent APRs are multi-year rates based on scores from the 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years.