UCR Athletics Shines on Single-Year APR Report
6/7/2024 9:48:00 AM | General
11 teams earn perfect APR score of 1,000
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - UC Riverside's classroom excellence for its 300+ student-athletes shined once again with this week's reveal of new NCAA Academic Progress Report (APR) scores. Â
UCR saw 11 programs score a perfect 1000 in 2022-23 with 14 achieving a score over 950. Â
"Our student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom and in competition and we couldn't be prouder," commented UCR Athletics Director, Wesley Mallette. "Under the leadership of Senior Associate AD for Academic Services and Student-Athlete Affairs/Senior Woman Administrator, Michelle Almazan, and her team, our student-athletes are doing quite well and we will continue to work to provide them with the resources they need to help ensure their success in the classroom."
The APR was developed by the NCAA in 2004 to measure the academic progress and performance of athletic programs at its member institutions. The APR is determined by using the eligibility and retention for each student-athlete on scholarship during a particular academic year. Student-athletes are awarded one point for each semester they are enrolled and one point for each semester they are eligible for intercollegiate competition. A student-athlete can earn a maximum of two points per semester and a maximum of four points during an academic year.Â
The APR is calculated by taking the number of possible points for a particular sport and dividing that number by the total number of points earned from student-athlete retention and eligibility over the same period of time. The percentage is then multiplied by 1,000 to get the actual APR. The minimum APR academic standard for each team is 930.Â
The NCAA does not penalize an institution for student-athletes who remain academically eligible but did not return to the institution due to circumstances beyond the student and/or institution's control. Examples of this include student-athletes who leave to pursue professional athletics, suffer from incapacitating physical or mental illness, or experience extreme financial difficulties as the result of a specific event such as a death in the family.Â
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Complete information on the 2022-23 APR Report can be found at the NCAA's website, NCAA.org.Â
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UC Riverside's 2022-23 Academic Progress Rate ScoresÂ
Baseball – 995Â
Men's Basketball – 1,000Â
Men's Cross Country – 1,000Â
Men's Golf – 1,000Â
Men's Soccer – 961Â
Men's Tennis – 1,000Â
Men's Track & Field – 1,000Â
Softball – 940 Â
Women's Basketball – 1,000Â
Women's Cross Country – 1,000Â
Women's Golf – 1,000Â
Women's Soccer – 967Â
Women's Tennis – 1,000Â
Women's Track & Field – 1,000Â
Women's Volleyball - 1,000
