Lehigh Athletics Teams Perform Above National Average in Academic Progress Rate

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Twenty of Lehigh University's athletic programs finished at or above the national average as the NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) data on Tuesday. In addition, 15 programs earned perfect 1000 APR scores for the 2022-23 academic year and 10 had perfect multi-year APR scores.

Five men's programs achieved perfect multi-year APR scores: cross country, golf, swimming and diving, tennis and track and field. On the women's side, basketball, cross country, field hockey, soccer and track and field earned perfect (1000) multi-year APR scores. The most recent multi-year APR scores are based on the scores from 2019-20 through 2022-23. The new data released Tuesday marks the third straight year of a reporting following a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 15 programs to earn a perfect 1000 APR for the 2022-23 school year were baseball, men's basketball, men's lacrosse, men's track and field, women's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, women's golf, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, women's soccer, softball, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and women's track and field. Men's cross country and men's tennis were excluded from the 2022-23 public release for the second straight year due to FERPA regulations, as the data cells contained three or fewer student-athletes.

Each academic year, every Division I sports team across the country calculates its APR using a simple and consistent formula. Each term, scholarship student-athletes can earn one point for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. For schools that do not offer scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked.

A full list of APRs for each team can be accessed by using the APR searchable database.

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Lehigh Athletics Teams Perform Above National Average in Academic Progress Rate

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