EASTON, Pa. – On the 21^st anniversary of NCAA Academic Progress Rate collection, Lafayette athletics continued to stand out as a distinguished leader. Seventeen of Lafayette's athletic programs measured in the NCAA's latest multi-year Academic Progress Rates (APR) matched or beat the national all-sport average (984).

Lafayette's overall APR score was 995 with 11 Leopard programs achieving perfect scores of 1000.

For Leopard women's teams, basketball (990), field hockey (996), softball (995), cross country (1000), lacrosse (1000), soccer (997), swimming and diving (1000), tennis (1000), track and field (1000) and volleyball (1000) all posted impressive scores.

For the Lafayette men's teams, baseball (1000), basketball (984), cross country (1000), football (984), golf (1000), lacrosse (1000), soccer (995), swimming and diving (997), tennis (990) and track and field (1000) all recorded multi-year APR scores well ahead of the NCAA's benchmark. 

Six women's teams and five men's teams posted perfect scores. Those most recent multi-year APR scores are based on the scores from 2020-21 through 2023-24 and were released on May 6.

Each academic year, every Division I sports team's APR is calculated using a simple and consistent formula. Scholarship student-athletes can earn 1 point for staying on course for a degree in their chosen major and 1 point for being retained (or graduating) at the end of each academic term. For schools that do not offer athletics scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked. 

This is the fourth consecutive year of publicly reported APRs after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the Division I board approved the release of APR scores but voted to continue the suspension of program penalties. Normal Academic Performance Program operations with program penalties and loss of access to postseason competition were originally scheduled to resume in spring 2024, but the Division I Committee on Academics decided not to enforce the loss of access to postseason competition for teams that scored lower than 930 last year, instead offering a conditional waiver due to lingering impacts of the pandemic.

However, normal operations are being enforced this year for teams scoring below the 930 benchmark, with strategic penalties that encourage an emphasis and prioritization on academics. 
A full list of APRs for each team can be accessed by using the APR searchable database.
 
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