INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA released its 2020-21 Academic Progress Rate (APR) figures and six of Northern Kentucky University's intercollegiate athletic programs posted perfect multi-year APR scores, as it was announced earlier this week.

The APR is an annual assessment of each team's academic and retention history. The overall APR score is based on the most recent four years of data (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21). Every year thereafter, the most current year's data will be added and the oldest year of data will be removed, creating a four-year rolling rate.

Women's cross country, women's soccer, women's tennis, women's track & field, men's golf and men's track and field each turned in a flawless multi-year APR scored of 1,000.

For the 2020-21 academic year, all eight of NKU women's programs (basketball, women's soccer, women's tennis, women's cross country, women's track & field, women's golf, women's volleyball, softball) earned a perfect score of 1,000. Northern Kentucky women's tennis has now posted a multi-year APR score of 1,000 the last five years and women's cross country recorded their third-straight year with a perfect score.

On the men's side, golf, tennis, cross country, track & field, and soccer all recorded a perfect single-year APR score of 1,000 as well. Baseball (980) and men's basketball (976) rounded out the remaining sports for the Norse for single-year APR scores in 2020-21. Men's track & field has now turned in a perfect APR score of 1,000 four consecutive years as well. 

"We are proud of our student-athletes' academic performances. It's a credit to the student-athletes our coaches recruit, our academic staff's commitment to our student-athletes, but most importantly, our student-athletes' commitment in the classroom," said Debbie Kirch, Associate Athletic Director for Compliance and Student Services. 
 
APR is calculated, per NCAA.org, as such: Each student-athlete receiving athletically-related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible. A team's total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team's Academic Progress Rate. In addition to a team's current-year APR, its rolling four-year APR is also used to determine accountability.