NCAA APR Database

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Wofford College athletic programs received strong scores in the latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) results that were released by the NCAA on Wednesday. Overall, fifteen of the eighteen sports offered at Wofford were above the Division I average of 976 for all institutions.
 
Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic year. Scholarship student-athletes each semester receive one point for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. Teams scoring below certain thresholds can face consequences, including practice restrictions and playing season reductions. Rates are an average of the past four years' performance. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable data at the time of analysis.
 
In order to compete in the 2014-15 postseason, teams must achieve either a 930 multi-year APR or a 940 average over the most recent two years. This approach represents the next step in a phased-in move to a standard 930 benchmark, which will be in place for most schools with next year's announcement of 2013-14 data collected in the fall of 2014.
 
Ten athletic teams from Wofford College received praise from the NCAA last week with public recognition awards for their latest APR scores. Teams recognized were football (985), men's soccer (998), men's tennis (1000), men's golf (1000), women's basketball (995), women's cross country (1000), and men's indoor track (1000), men's outdoor track and field (1000), women's indoor track (1000), and women's outdoor track and field (1000). All ten teams were first in the Southern Conference in APR score.
 
Other teams and their multi-year scores include baseball (986), men's basketball (961), women's golf (991), women's soccer (992), women's tennis (983), rifle (929), and volleyball (987).
 
Men's soccer is fifth in the nation at 998, while women's basketball is 27th. Among all NCAA Division I (FBS and FCS) football teams, Wofford's score of 985 is twelfth in the nation. The Terriers are ahead of schools such as Stanford (984), Georgia Tech (983), Boston College (981), Harvard (980), Rice (975), Vanderbilt (974), Notre Dame (972), and Wake Forest (970).
 
The NCAA provides APR adjustments for student-athletes who transfer to another four-year school after earning a 2.6 grade-point average and those who leave in good academic standing for professional athletics careers. The most recent APRs are multi-year rates based on the rates from the 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.
 
APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.