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The UCLA men's water polo team was perfect in the pool with a 30-0 record in 2015 while winning its second-straight NCAA Championship. It was recently announced that the Bruins were perfect in the classroom as well, earning a score of 1,000 in the latest NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR).
As a whole, UCLA teams continued to achieve high marks in the NCAA's APR, which was released on April 20 by the NCAA for all Division I sports teams for the four-year period between 2011-12 and 2014-15. Every UCLA sport had four-year APR averages well above the 930 score that the NCAA uses as a threshold for penalties.
Each Bruin team earned multi-year rates over 960, with three teams receiving an APR Public Recognition Award with perfect scores of 1000. The award-winning teams are the two-time defending NCAA champion men's water polo team, the No. 1-ranked women's golf team (for the seventh consecutive year) and the No. 3-ranked men's volleyball team.
“The ability to successfully balance the rigors of academic commitments and athletic participation is a unique skill,” said Dr. Christina Rivera, Associate Athletic Director for Academic & Student Services. “It requires time management, sacrifice, persistence and dedication to excel in both. The fact that our student-athletes manage this at an institution as academically and athletically competitive as UCLA is a testament to their work ethic and continues to be a great source of pride for all of us in our Athletic Department.”
A total of 15 UCLA teams – men's cross country, men's golf, men's soccer, men's tennis, men's volleyball, men's water polo, women's beach volleyball, women's cross country, women's golf, women's gymnastics, women's soccer, women's swimming & diving, women's tennis, women's volleyball and women's water polo – earned single-year perfect marks of 1,000.
A multi-year APR score of 930 is the minimum level of academic success; teams scoring below 930 are ineligible for postseason and subject to additional penalties determined by the NCAA. No UCLA team has ever had a rate lower than the required benchmark since the implementation of the NCAA APR.
UCLA's multi-year APR by sport (2014-15):
Baseball - 989
Men's Basketball - 962
Men's Cross Country - 977
Football - 972
Men's Golf - 993
Men's Soccer - 993
Men's Tennis - 985
Men's Track - 983
Men's Volleyball – 1000 (Top 10 percent nationally in sport)
Men's Water Polo – 1000 (Top 10 percent nationally in sport)
Women's Basketball – 988
Women's Beach Volleyball – 1000** (only includes 1 year of data)
Women's Cross Country - 994
Women's Golf - 1000 (Top 10 percent nationally in sport)
Women's Gymnastics - 995
Women's Rowing - 986
Women's Soccer - 983
Softball - 985
Women's Swimming & Diving - 992
Women's Tennis - 984
Women's Track - 991
Women's Volleyball - 997
Women's Water Polo - 993