INDIANAPOLIS | The NCAA office released Multi-Year Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores Tuesday, and the University of South Alabama Department of Athletics once again had several programs record perfect scores in multi-year and single-year rates announced by the national office.

The department had two teams score a perfect 1,000 – women's golf and women's tennis – multi-year rate based on figures from the 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years, while men's and women's cross country, men's golf and softball also had a 990 or above multi-year APR rate.

Nine Jag programs — men's and women's basketball, softball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, women's tennis, and volleyball — finished with a perfect 1,000 APR score in the single-year rate (2022-23). 

"These numbers directly reflect the work of our student-athletes and the level of priority they give to their academics," Senior Associate Athletic Director, Internal Operations Jason Kelly said. "It starts with our coaches who recruit student-athletes that not only want to compete in their respective sport, but they also want to compete in the classroom.  This does not happen without the support provided to our students by their professors, academic counselors, and the support from the Student-Athlete Academic Services staff."

The APR, created to provide a real-time measurement of academic success rather than the six-year delay with graduation rates, is a team-based metric in which scholarship student-athletes earn one point for each term in which they remain academically eligible and one point for returning to school or graduating. Schools that do not offer athletics aid track the eligibility and retention of their recruited student-athletes within their APR cohorts.

Every Division I athletics program submits data to the NCAA as part of the Academic Progress Rate calculation. The NCAA reports both single-year and four-year rates. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable member-provided data.

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