Rice Posts 11 Perfect APR Scores
5/20/2020 11:45:00 AM | General, Men's Basketball, Men's Cross Country, Men's Golf, Men's Tennis, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Women's Tennis, Women's Track & Field, Women's Volleyball
Owls combine for a 993.7 mark
Rice's 14 intercollegiate athletic programs combined to post a single-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) score of 993.7, including perfect scores of 1000 by 11 sports, as released by the NCAA on Tuesday.
Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, golf, soccer, swimming, men's and women's tennis, women's track and field and volleyball each posted a perfect score for 2018-19 and the Owls' 78.6% of programs scoring 1000 ranked sixth among all programs competing at the FBS level.
Women's cross country has recorded a perfect score in each of the 15 years since the NCAA began the current program. This marks the 12th consecutive year for women's tennis, the ninth for both soccer and volleyball and the eighth for men's cross country.
To compete in the 2019-20 postseason, teams had to achieve a four-year APR of 930. NCAA members chose the 930 standard because that score predicts, on average, a 50% graduation rate for teams at that APR level.
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric in which scholarship student-athletes earn 1 point each term for remaining eligible and 1 point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that do not 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 and four-year rates. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data. APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.
Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, golf, soccer, swimming, men's and women's tennis, women's track and field and volleyball each posted a perfect score for 2018-19 and the Owls' 78.6% of programs scoring 1000 ranked sixth among all programs competing at the FBS level.
Women's cross country has recorded a perfect score in each of the 15 years since the NCAA began the current program. This marks the 12th consecutive year for women's tennis, the ninth for both soccer and volleyball and the eighth for men's cross country.
To compete in the 2019-20 postseason, teams had to achieve a four-year APR of 930. NCAA members chose the 930 standard because that score predicts, on average, a 50% graduation rate for teams at that APR level.
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric in which scholarship student-athletes earn 1 point each term for remaining eligible and 1 point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that do not 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 and four-year rates. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member-provided data. APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.
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