14 UC sports receive perfect APR score

Bill Koch, bkoch@enquirer.com 2:05 p.m. EDT May 15, 2014

Fourteen of UC's 19 athletic programs achieved a perfect score of Academic Progress Rate of 1,000 in 2012-13. The NCAA released the multi-year rates for all Division I institutions Wednesday, covering the period from 2009-10 through 2012-13.

The APR is a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete, each term, at every Division I institution. Starting with the 2014-15 championships, teams are required to earn a four-year rate of 930, or a 940 average of the most recent two years, to compete in NCAA post-season competition.

During the four-year span, UC saw the number of programs achieving a perfect score of 1,000 increase from four in the first year of the reporting period to 14 in the final year, with the department's overall score increasing each of the past four years to an average of 985 in 2012-13. For the entire four-year period, the department averaged a score of 975. None of UC's programs will be subject to any postseason penalties from the NCAA.

UC had seven programs (men's cross country, women's cross country, men's golf, women's golf, men's swimming, tennis and men's outdoor track) post a perfect score in three of the four years during the period.

In 2012-13, baseball, men's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, lacrosse, men's soccer, men's and women's swimming and diving, women's tennis, men's indoor and outdoor track, and volleyball all achieved a perfect score of 1,000.

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That is outstanding!

Well done UC and our fine student-athletes!!! Improved academic performance gives more positive light on our university.

Excellent news. This is the stuff that really counts, folks.

STUDENT-athletes; congratulations for all your hard work.

Exactly why I don't get bent out of shape over what we cannot control. Clearly, UC is outstanding at what it CAN control.