General | 6/16/2022 2:00:00 PM

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – Multiple St. Bonaventure athletic programs showed well in the latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) report released by the NCAA, headed up by seven teams which earned Public Recognition Awards for perfect scores: men's cross country and track, men's and women's tennis, women's lacrosse, women's soccer and women's swimming and diving.

The APR is an annual scorecard of academic achievement calculated for all Division I sports teams nationally. The most recent APRs are multi-year rates based on scores from the 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years.

In all, 11 of St. Bonaventure's teams scored 980 or better out of a possible 1,000 points for the latest academic year in the report, 2020-21. Also reaching that total were baseball, men's lacrosse and softball.

Additionally, 14 St. Bonaventure teams scored 980 or better for the multi-year report including the past four years, highlighted by three perfect scores: men's cross country (1,000), men's track (1,000), women's lacrosse (1,000), golf (994), softball (994), baseball (992), women's soccer (990), women's tennis (989), women's track (988), women's cross country (988), men's lacrosse (988), men's swimming and diving (988), women's swimming and diving (986) and men's tennis (983).

ABOUT ACADEMIC PROGRESS RATES (APR)
The NCAA released data through 2020-21 as the 17th set of APR results, a formula introduced as part of the Division I Academic Performance Program. The NCAA released sport-specific data for 2020-21 to each institution, as well as the most recent four years of collected data used to determine a rolling four-year (multi-year) APR score for all athletic teams to provide a meaningful assessment of a team's academic performance.
 
The NCAA's APR is designed to track the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship at a particular institution. It accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation each term to provide a clear measure of each team's academic performance.
 
The APR is based on four years of data, with the most current year's data added and the oldest year removed, to create a four-year (multi-year) rolling rate. Penalties can be applied if an athletic team's multi-year APR score is below 930.