SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Wofford College athletic programs received the latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) results that were released by the NCAA on Wednesday. Overall, seven sports at Wofford were above the Division I average of 983 for all institutions.
 
Every Division I sports team calculates its Academic Progress Rate each academic year. The NCAA reports both single-year rates and four-year rates, on which penalties for poor academic performance are based. The APR, created to be a more real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates, is a team-based metric through which scholarship student-athletes each term earn 1 point for remaining eligible and 1 point for staying in school or graduating.
 
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 2019-20 postseason, teams must have achieved a 930 four-year APR. NCAA member representatives chose the 930 standard because that score predicts a 50% graduation rate for the team. Additionally, teams must earn a four-year APR of at least a 930 to avoid penalties. 
 
The Wofford women's cross country team received praise from the NCAA last week with a public recognition award for their latest APR score of 1000. Women's cross country was first in the Southern Conference in APR score, along with football and women's track and field.
 
Other teams and their multi-year scores include baseball (971), football (984), men's basketball (970), men's cross country (963), men's golf (974), men's soccer (976), men's tennis (975), men's indoor and outdoor track (985), rifle (979), women's basketball (970), women's cross country (1000), women's golf (952), women's lacrosse (985), women's tennis (982), women's indoor and outdoor track (996), volleyball (989).
 
For the first time, a portion of NCAA revenue is being distributed this year to members based on the academic achievement of student-athletes, including APR scores.  Each school can earn one academic achievement unit per year if its student-athletes meet at least one of the following requirements:

• Earn an overall single-year all-sport Academic Progress Rate of 985 or higher.
• Earn an overall all-sport Graduation Success Rate of 90% or higher.
• Earn a federal graduation rate that is at least 13 percentage points higher than the federal graduation rate of the student body at that school.

 
As requested by the Division I Board of Directors, the NCAA will not publicize which schools received the unit. Dollar figures were impacted by the cancellation of the 2020 Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
 
APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.