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Five Sports Set Or Tie APR Program Highs

Four UNLV teams earn a perfect single-year APR score.

Highlighted by football's best-ever performance, five UNLV Athletics programs set or tied their NCAA Academic Progress Rate single-year score record as the national organization released its most recent data for the 2017-18 academic year Wednesday. In addition, a pair of Rebel squads also set or tied their multi-year record scores.

Breaking its program's respective record-high multi-year score was men's soccer (959), while volleyball tied the program record with a 1,000 multi-year score. 

For the 11th consecutive year, all 17 of UNLV's NCAA Division I sports programs possess a multi-year APR score that exceeds the NCAA minimum cut score, with all teams posting a multi-year score this year topping 950.

UNLV volleyball was recognized last week with the NCAA's Public Recognition Award by earning a multi-year APR of 1,000, putting the team in the top-10 percent of all squads in its respective sport. To achieve a perfect multi-year score of 1,000, a program must be perfect in four consecutive years. Rebel volleyball was also one of four teams with a perfect single-year score (1,000).


Also posting perfect single-year scores in 2017-18 were the men's golf, men's swimming and diving and the women's tennis teams, all of which tied their previous highs. The football team set a new single-year record of 983, besting the previous high of 958.

The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete. The APR includes eligibility, retention and graduation in the calculation and its goal is to provide a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport. A score of 1000 means that the institution has met the goals of retention and satisfactory degree progress for 100 percent of each of its student-athletes in a given time period. A score of 900 equates to 90 percent, 800 equals 80 percent, and so forth. The NCAA implemented the APR in 2003.

The most recent APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years.
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