The NCAA released publicly their latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores for 800 Division I teams. Thirteen of the Mount’s eighteen sports ranked above the national average with four teams ranked in the 80-90^th percentile. Mount St. Mary’s University’s Women’s Golf and Tennis teams had perfect scores of 1,000 and were honored by the NCAA last month for their scholastic and athletic excellence. These two teams posted multi-year APR scores in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. “We are proud of our Division I athletic program,” says Mount President Thomas H.  Powell, “not only for the athletic accomplishments of our student athletes, but particularly for their academic achievements.”

Every Division I sports team calculates its APR each academic year, based on the eligibility, retention and graduation of each scholarship student-athlete. An APR of 925 translates to an NCAA Graduation Success Rate of approximately 60 percent. Teams that score below 925 and have a student fail academically and leave school can lose up to 10 percent of their scholarships. Known as immediate penalties in the academic reform program, these scholarships can be lost each year and not reawarded until the following year.

The average APR for all Division I student-athletes is 960, according to the latest data, which for most teams is based on three years of academic performance. The average APR for male student-athletes is 950 while the average for female student-athletes is 970.

Four Mount teams ranked in the 80-90^th percentile. Those teams are Men’s Basketball, Men’s Soccer, Softball, and Baseball. Because APR scores are based on a sport-by-sport basis, the baseball’s APR score of 975 is not comparable to the men’s basketball’s APR of 967.

“We congratulate our teams and our student-athletes who work hard in their sports while excelling in the classroom,” says Lynne Robinson, associate director of athletics. “Once again, our student-athletes have shown that they are students first.”

APR scores per institution, along with penalties per school and teams receiving public recognition, are available online at ncaa.org. Click here for the Mount's complete APR Report.

 For more information, please contact the Mount’s Office of Sports Information at 301-447-5384.