EASTON, Pa. - Twenty of Lafayette College's athletic programs finished well above the national average in the NCAA's latest release of the NCAA multi-year Academic Progress Rates, while 16 programs earned perfect scores of 1000 for the 2020-21 school year.

On the men's side, baseball (995), basketball (995), football (984), golf (1,000), lacrosse (992), soccer (1,000), swimming and diving (1,000) and tennis (1,000) all registered multi-year APR scores in the 80^th percentile or above. Those most recent multi-year APR scores are based on the scores from 2017-18 through 2020-21 and were released on June 13 after a one-year hiatus due to COVID-19.

For Lafayette's women's sports, basketball (1,000), softball (1,000), soccer (1,000), tennis (1,000) and swimming and diving (1,000) all secured perfect multi-year APR scores and eclipsed the 80^th percentile threshold.

In the single-year APR reporting, eight women's teams (basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, softball, soccer, volleyball track and field and swimming and diving) recorded perfect scores for 2020-21. The men also saw eight squads (baseball, basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming and diving, track and field and tennis) notch a perfect score. The football team checked in with a 967, ranking it in the 80^th percentile in the nation. (Men's golf, women's cross country and women's tennis were excluded from the public release due to FERPA regulations, as the data cells contained three or fewer student-athletes).

Each Division I team calculates its APR each academic year. Scholarship student-athletes receive one point each semester for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. At schools that don't offer scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked. Rates are an average of the past four years' performance and the most recent APR scores are multi-year rates based on the scores from the 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable data at the time of analysis. Click through for the NCAA searchable database.