Fresno State Athletics
Women’s Tennis earns key APR award
5/13/2020 1:45:00 PM | General, Women's Tennis
The Fresno State women’s tennis program was honored by the NCAA for the sixth straight season with a Public Recognition Award.
INDIANAPOLIS – For the sixth straight season, the Fresno State women's tennis program earned a NCAA Public Recognition Award with a perfect multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) score of 1,000, the NCAA announced this week.
The NCAA recognized nearly 1,400 Division I programs from 326 schools for academic excellence after they scored in the top 10% of their sports in the most recent Academic Progress Rate results.
The APR is an annual scorecard of academic achievement calculated for all Division I sports teams. The metric measures eligibility, graduation and retention each semester or academic term and provides a clear picture of the academic performance for each team in every sport. All teams must meet an academic threshold of 930 to qualify for the postseason and can face penalties for continued low academic performance.
The most recent APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years.
Nationally, teams earning Public Recognition Awards increased to 1,380, up by 52 from the previous academic year, largely due to an increase in squads with perfect scores. APRs for programs in the top 10% ranged from 987 to a perfect 1,000. The number of teams posting perfect scores increased to 1,266, an increase of 52 teams from last year.
Of the teams recognized, 499 competed in men's or mixed sports and 881 competed in women's sports.
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