The NCAA released its seventh annual Academic Progress Rates report today and a total of six teams at five schools had perfect scores of 1000 for the 2009-10 academic year: Louisiana Tech-men's golf; Nevada-men's golf; Hawai‘i-women's cross country; New Mexcio State-men's and women's golf; and Utah State-women's cross country.
Boise State, Hawai‘i and Utah State (the latter two for the second straight year) were the only three schools in the WAC with all of their teams above the 925 standard.
93 percent of all teams in the WAC met the minimum this year
as 138 of the 148 teams in all WAC-sponsored sports were at or above
the 925 standard.
The APR is a real-time “snapshot” of a team’s academic success and
is used by the NCAA and universities to measure current academic
success by looking at the academic progress of each current
student-athlete. It includes eligibility, retention, and graduation as
factors in the rate calculation. Each student-athlete can add two
points to the team’s overall score per semester, including one for
academic eligibility and one for returning to school the next semester.
The 925 threshold set by the NCAA equals roughly a 60 percent
Graduation Success Rate. Teams that score below 925 and have a
student-athlete who failed academically and left school can lose
scholarships. Teams can lose up to 10 percent of their scholarships
each year for poor academic performance under the immediate penalty
structure and also face a historical penalty structure.