INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA announced its latest single and multi-year Academic Progress Report (APR) for NCAA Division I schools today and the University of Utah was again near the top of the Pac-12 for APR success. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation of all student-athletes on scholarship, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.
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The latest multi-year APR calculations include scores from 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. The average for Utah's teams was 988, up one point from last season's average of 987, while establishing a new department record for the fourth consecutive year and easily exceeding the NCAA minimum requirement of 930.
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Utah had five sports (cross country, gymnastics, women's tennis, track and volleyball) with perfect single-year APR scores of 1000. The volleyball team earned a perfect single-year APR score for the fourth consecutive year, while both gymnastics and cross country teams received perfect scores for the third straight season.
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Cross country and volleyball both registered perfect multi-year APR scores of 1000. Both teams, who received public recognition from the NCAA last week for posting a multi-year APR in the top 10 percent of all athletic teams in the country, are tied for the highest multi-year APR score in the Pac-12 for their respective sports.
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The men's basketball (990) and women's track (996) teams have the second-highest multi-year APR in the Pac-12 for their respective sports, while football (983) and the men's golf (993) teams posted the third-highest multi-year APR scores in the Pac-12 for their respective sports. Football produced a multi-year APR ranking in the top third of the Pac-12 Conference for a sixth-straight year.
Seven Utah teams improved their multi-year scores from a year ago. Making gains were women's basketball (+10), men's skiing (+7), women's soccer (+5), women's volleyball (+5), softball (+4), women's track (+4) and men's tennis (+1). Football, cross country, gymnastics, women's skiing, women's swimming & diving and women's tennis all maintained the same multi-year APR.
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