UCLA teams continue to achieve high marks in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rates (APR), which were released today by the NCAA for all Division I sports teams for the 2012-13 through 2015-16 period. Each UCLA sport had four-year APR averages well above the 930 score that the NCAA uses as a threshold for penalties.
Every Bruin team earned multi-year rates of 950 or above, with six teams receiving an APR Public Recognition Award with perfect scores of 1,000. Three conference championship squads are among the award-winning teams – Pac-12 champion women's golf (for the eighth year in a row), Pac-12 regular season champion men's tennis, and MPSF champion women's water polo. Also receiving Public Recognition Awards are men's volleyball (for the second-straight year), women's cross country, and women's beach volleyball, who joins CSU Bakersfield as the first two beach volleyball programs ever to earn Public Recognition Awards.
"Our student-athletes continue to succeed in a rigorous academic and athletic environment, demonstrating their resolve to achieve in all facets of their intercollegiate athletic experience," said Ja'Nae Davis, UCLA Associate Athletic Director, Academic & Student Services. "Their hard work and determination, along with support from administration, campus partners, coaches and academic support staff, display our collective commitment to fostering a culture of academic achievement and excellence."
A total of 12 UCLA teams earned single-year perfect marks of 1,000 for the 2015-16 academic year –women's beach volleyball, men's cross country, women's cross country, women's golf, women's gymnastics, women's rowing, softball, women's swimming & diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, men's volleyball and women's water polo.
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 in August of 2003.
UCLA's multi-year APR by sport (2015-16):
Baseball – 971
Men's Basketball – 950
Men's Cross Country – 997
Football – 971
Men's Golf – 993
Men's Soccer – 990
Men's Tennis – 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Men's Track & Field – 985
Men's Volleyball – 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Men's Water Polo – 998
Women's Basketball – 979
Women's Beach Volleyball - 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Women's Cross Country - 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Women's Rowing – 989
Women's Golf – 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)
Women's Gymnastics – 995
Softball – 985
Women's Soccer – 977
Women's Swimming & Diving – 992
Women's Tennis – 984
Women's Track & Field – 984
Women's Volleyball – 992
Women's Water Polo - 1,000 (APR Public Recognition Award-winner)