University of Memphis Athletics
Memphis Athletics APR Scores Released
May 10, 2017 | General
Tigers incur no NCAA penalties for 13th-straight year.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The NCAA released its 2016-17 Academic Progress Rates (APR) on Wednesday, and the University of Memphis athletics department will receive no penalties. It is the 13th-straight year that all 17 Tigers athletics programs did not incur APR penalties from the NCAA.
All 17 Tigers programs had APRs of 950 or higher, and Memphis' institutional average of APR scores was 980.4. The current APR is based on the multi-year period from 2012-13 through 2015-16.
For the 2015-16 year alone, Memphis had six programs with perfect 1000 scores. Those programs are baseball, men's golf, men's soccer, men's tennis, women's cross country and women's golf. Three other programs – men's basketball, women's basketball and women's track and field – had scores of 980 or higher for the 2015-16 year only.
Last week, the Memphis women's golf program was honored by the NCAA for posting an APR among the top-10 percent nationally in its sport. It was the seventh-straight year Tigers women's golf received an NCAA Public Recognition Award for its APR score.
The following are some Memphis athletics APR highlights:
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.
Every Division I sports team calculates an 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 intended to require additional focus on academics, including practice restrictions, playing season reductions and postseason ineligibility.
In order to compete in the 2017-18 postseason, teams had to earn a 930 multi-year APR score. NCAA member campuses and conferences in Division I decided to move to the 930 standard because it predicts roughly a 50 percent graduation rate.
All 17 Tigers programs had APRs of 950 or higher, and Memphis' institutional average of APR scores was 980.4. The current APR is based on the multi-year period from 2012-13 through 2015-16.
For the 2015-16 year alone, Memphis had six programs with perfect 1000 scores. Those programs are baseball, men's golf, men's soccer, men's tennis, women's cross country and women's golf. Three other programs – men's basketball, women's basketball and women's track and field – had scores of 980 or higher for the 2015-16 year only.
Last week, the Memphis women's golf program was honored by the NCAA for posting an APR among the top-10 percent nationally in its sport. It was the seventh-straight year Tigers women's golf received an NCAA Public Recognition Award for its APR score.
The following are some Memphis athletics APR highlights:
- Two programs with highest (or tied for highest) APR scores among American Athletic Conference schools in their sports: baseball, women's golf
- Women's track and field (989 score) with the third-highest APR score among the league's institutions in its sport
- Men's track and field (978 score) tied for the third-highest APR score among the league's institutions in its sport
- Men's cross country (990 score) with the fourth-highest APR score among the league's institutions in its sport
- Men's cross country's 990 score, the third-straight year with a 990 or higher score (had a perfect 1000 score the previous two years)
- Women's golf's seventh-consecutive year with a perfect 1000 score
- Women's track and field's 989 score, the highest in program history (previous-best score was 985 last year, which was the first time indoor and outdoor teams were calculated together)
- Football's 965 score, the second-highest in program history (best was its 968 score last year) and second-best since 2006-07
- Baseball's 993 score, the sixth-straight year with a 990 or higher score
- Women's cross country's 985 score, the highest in program history (previous best was 984 last year)
- Men's golf's 987 score, a six-point jump from the previous year and the sixth-consecutive year with a 980 or higher score
- Rifle's 991 score, the third-straight year with a 990 or higher score (had a perfect 1000 score the previous two years)
- Softball's 977 score, the 11th-straight year with a 975 or higher score
- Women's tennis' 982 score, the seventh-straight year with a 980 or higher score
- Volleyball's 983 score, the 12th-straight year with a 980 or higher score
- Women's soccer's 980 score, fifth time in last seven years with a 980 score or higher
- Men's soccer's 975 score, an 11-point jump from last year and the highest in program history (previous-best score was 971 in 2009-10)
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.
Every Division I sports team calculates an 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 intended to require additional focus on academics, including practice restrictions, playing season reductions and postseason ineligibility.
In order to compete in the 2017-18 postseason, teams had to earn a 930 multi-year APR score. NCAA member campuses and conferences in Division I decided to move to the 930 standard because it predicts roughly a 50 percent graduation rate.
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