INDIANAPOLISÂ - The NCAA has announced its latest single and multi-year Academic Progress Report (APR) for NCAA Division I schools. 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 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, and 2016-17. The average for Utah's teams was 986 easily exceeding the NCAA minimum requirement of 930.
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Utah had five sports (gymnastics, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's tennis, and volleyball) with perfect single-year APR scores of 1000. The volleyball team earned a perfect single-year APR score for the fifth consecutive year, gymnastics received a perfect score for the fourth straight season, and men's tennis has been perfect for three years in a row.
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Cross country, gymnastics and volleyball each registered perfect multi-year APR scores of 1000. These teams, along with track, received public recognition from the NCAA for posting a multi-year APR in the top 10 percent of all athletic teams in the country. Track also posted the highest multi-year APR score for the Pac-12, while cross country, gymnastics and volleyball were all tied for the top score in their respective disciplines.
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The football (983) and men's basketball (985) 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 seventh-straight year.
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Four Utah teams improved their multi-year scores from a year ago. Making gains were women's basketball (+10), men's swimming (+6), gymnastics (+4), and women's track (+2). Baseball, football, men's tennis, women's tennis and volleyball all maintained the same multi-year APR.
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