Hawkeyes Shine in NCAA Academic Progress Report

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) report for 2018-19 revealed that – for the 10th consecutive year – all of the University of Iowa’s 24 sports programs were well above the 930 threshold that signals a red flag with respect to academic progress. The highlights of results for the UI’s student-athletes include:

  • Men’s cross country, men’s gymnastics, men’s tennis, women’s basketball, women’s cross country, rowing, field hockey, women’s golf, women’s gymnastics, women’s soccer, and women’s tennis all scored a perfect single year score of 1,000.
  • All 24 of the University of Iowa’s athletic programs achieved no lower than a 950 multiyear rate.
  • Eleven Hawkeye teams are at or above the national average of 983
  • Nineteen Hawkeye teams scored above a 970.

Every Division I sports team across the nation calculates its APR each academic year, similar to a report card. Scholarship student-athletes each semester earn one point for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. As tracked through the APR, more than 14,000 former college athletes have returned to school to get their degrees since the NCAA created the measurement tool. Each of those students earns back a lost APR point for their team. Each of those graduates earned APR points for their team.