Virginia Athletics Continues to Excel in NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate Report

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Virginia athletics program as soon as once more displayed spectacular ends in the Educational Progress Price (APR) Institutional Report launched by the NCAA in the present day (Might 2). 4 Cavalier applications posted good multi-year charges of 1,000 whereas a complete of 12 (of 23) groups had an ideal APR for the 2021-22 educational yr.

Based on the NCAA, the nationwide four-year educational progress fee for the present report remained 984 from the earlier yr. UVA’s multi-year common for its 23 applications through the present reporting interval is 991. For functions of the report, indoor and out of doors observe and area seasons are mixed. UVA’s males’s and ladies’s squash applications should not included within the report since they aren’t NCAA Championship-sponsored applications.

The NCAA’s minimal APR educational commonplace for every staff is 930. Usually, groups that scored beneath the benchmark must face penalties that encourage an emphasis and prioritization on teachers. Nevertheless, as a result of present penalty suspension (because of sports activities seasons being canceled through the pandemic) in place, groups falling beneath the minimal 930 rating won’t be subjected to penalties this yr.

Regular Educational Efficiency Program operations with program penalties and lack of entry to postseason competitors will resume in spring 2024. This may also embody the general public recognition of high-performing groups.

All 23 UVA sports activities applications included within the report exceeded the required APR of 930. 4 Cavalier applications – girls’s golf, girls’s lacrosse and ladies’s softball and area hockey – posted good multi-year scores of 1,000 and 18 of 23 had a rating of a minimum of 990.

It marks the thirteenth time the UVA girls’s golf staff has been acknowledged for an ideal annual rating of 1,000, the sixth time for girls’s lacrosse, the third time for softball and the second time for area hockey.

The Cavalier soccer program’s multi-year rating of 983 matched its highest within the historical past of the APR program that dates again to the 2004-05 educational season. The UVA baseball staff (994) had its greatest all-time mark. The Cavalier wrestling staff (993) and ladies’s tennis program (992) additionally equaled their earlier greatest APR multi-year scores.

The 12 UVA groups with an ideal (1000) APR rating for the 2020-21 educational yr included: baseball, males’s basketball, males’s cross nation, males’s golf, males’s soccer, males’s tennis ,area hockey, girls’s golf, girls’s lacrosse, softball, girls’s swimming and diving and ladies’s tennis.

Applied in 2003 as a part of an formidable educational reform effort in Division I, the Educational Progress Price (APR) holds establishments accountable for the educational progress of their student-athletes via a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of every student-athlete for every educational time period.

The APR offers a real-time take a look at a program’s educational success every semester by monitoring the educational progress of every student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and commencement and offers a measure of every staff’s educational efficiency. This yr, the APR rating was a multi-year common of the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 educational years.

That is the second yr of publicly reported APRs after a one-year COVID-19 hiatus. Final spring, the Division I Board of Administrators authorized the discharge of APR scores however voted to proceed the suspension of program penalties.