Sixteen Lehigh Teams Earn Perfect Scores In Latest NCAA APR Release

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, 16 of Lehigh's 23 programs earned perfect 1000 APR scores for the 2023-24 academic year and 12 had perfect multi-year APR scores.

Five men's programs achieved perfect multi-year APR scores: basketball, cross country, golf, swimming and diving and track and field. On the women's side, basketball, cross country, field hockey, softball, soccer, swimming and diving and track and field earned perfect (1000) multi-year APR scores.

The most recent multi-year APR scores are based on the scores from 2020-21 through 2023-24. The new data released Tuesday marks the fifth straight year of a reporting following a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

All 12 of Lehigh's women's athletic programs earned perfect 1000 APR scores for the 2023-24 academic year. Those 12 programs were joined by men's basketball, men's cross country, men's swimming and diving and men's track and field.

Men's golf and men's tennis were excluded from the 2023-24 public release 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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Sixteen Lehigh Teams Earn Perfect Scores In Latest NCAA APR Release

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