A total of 38 swimming & diving programs in the NCAA’s Division I have earned perfect Academic Progress Rate scores of 1000 through the 2012-2013 season, according to numbers released by the NCAA today.
The Academic Progress Rates, known as APR scores, measure how well each program’s athletes are both staying eligible and staying enrolled in school. The scores are calculated each year based on the 4 most recent seasons and can bring penalties to schools that score below a certain threshold.
The process to finding the final score is somewhat complex, but here’s a brief explanation: each team earns one point for every scholarship-earning athlete who remains enrolled in school for the term and an additional point for every scholarship athlete who remains academically eligible. The total number of points are divided by the total number of points possible, and the result is multiplied by 1000.
That means for a team earning a score of 1000, every single scholarship athlete remained eligible and enrolled for the next semester (or graduated) during the terms in question. These are 4-year rolling averages to give a better picture of a program’s success over the full careers of their undergrads.
25 women’s programs received perfect 1000 scores after this year’s numbers, according to the NCAA’s database, which can be found here. 13 men’s teams made the 1000 barrier as well.
4 schools had both their men’s and women’s programs appear on the 1000-pointers list: Miami (FL), Providence, Lafayette and Dartmouth.
The full list of 1000-point scorers is below. For teams scoring at the NCAA Championships, we’ve included their final place at NCAAs for reference. Two top-10 teams achieved 1000-point scores, both on the women’s side: National Champions Georgia and #10 Minnesota.
Women’s 1000 point teams
Boston College
Bryant University
Bucknell
Cal-Poly
Colgate
Dartmouth
Davidson
George Mason
George Washington
Georgetown
Lafayette
Lehigh
Loyola Marymount
Northern Arizona
Northwestern
Pepperdine
Providence
Tulane
Georgia (#1)
Miami (FL) (#21)
Minnesota (#10)
Missouri (#37)
North Carolina-Asheville
Notre Dame (#16)
Yale
Men’s 1000 point teams
Miami (FL) (#25)
St. Francis College
Providence
Lafayette
Georgia Tech (#47)
Fordham
Fairfield
Eastern Illinois
Duke (#21)
Dartmouth (#42)
Holy Cross
Brown
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