University of St. Thomas Athletics
St. Thomas excels in NCAA academic report
6/5/2024 10:04:00 AM | Baseball, Football, Athletics, Men's Basketball, Men's Cross Country, Men's Golf, Men's Hockey, Men's Soccer, Men's Swimming & Diving, Men's Tennis, Men's Track & Field, Softball, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Golf, Women's Hockey, Women's Soccer, Women's Swimming & Diving, Women's Tennis, Women's Track & Field, Volleyball, Men's Volleyball, Virtual Sellout, Spirit Squad
ST. PAUL, MINN. – The University of St. Thomas continued to demonstrate strong performances in the NCAA Academic Progress Report (APR). Released Tuesday, 10 Tommie teams received perfect scores of 1000 over a four year span, the most of any program participating in the Summit League. Additionally, nearly all St. Thomas teams showed improvement from 2020 to 2023
The NCAA APR report tracks scholarship student-athlete academic performance on a yearly basis at the Division I level. Scholarship student-athletes receive one point for each semester they are enrolled and another point for each semester they are eligible for competition. In total, student-athletes can receive four total points per academic year, and APR is then calculated by taking the number of possible points for a particular sport for the four years and dividing that number by the total number of points earned from student-athlete retention and eligibility over the same period of time. The percentage is then multiplied by 1,000 to obtain the multiyear rate used in the report. The most recent NCAA APR includes data from the 2019-2020, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years.
St. Thomas led all Summit League institutions with 10 teams receiving perfect scores of 1000, including five men's teams and five women's teams. Tommie men's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, men's golf, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, men's swim and dive, women's swim and dive and volleyball all received perfect scores of 1000, and St. Thomas baseball, football, men's hockey, women's hockey, both track and field programs and women's basketball posted scores above the NCAA cutoff of 930 during the four-year span.
The purpose of the APR, according to the NCAA, is to provide a "real-time snapshot" of each team's academic performance. The NCAA requires teams to maintain a minimum multiyear APR of 930 to avoid contemporaneous penalties that include postseason bans and the possibility of losing grant-in-aid for the period of one year if a student-athlete leaves school while academically ineligible. Institutions are not allowed to award the grant-in-aid from the ineligible student-athlete to a different student-athlete. The contemporaneous penalties only apply when a team below the 930 cutline does not retain an academically ineligible student-athlete.
