![]() Men's Fencing Up 29 Points Women's Gymnastics Jumps 25 Points The field hockey, women's cross country and women's golf squads have earned nine multi-year 1,000 APR scores. The Penn State women's tennis team has earned 12 multi-year 1,000 APR scores in the 16 years the NCAA has announced multi-year data. The men's and women's indoor and outdoor track & field teams are combined in the APR data, reducing the number of Penn State teams from 31 to 29 in the compilation. The average multi-year APR score for Penn State's 29 varsity teams is 988, above the Division I average of 984, according to the NCAA. Nittany Lions' Multi-Year APR Average Again Exceeds Division I Average The women's fencing, men's golf and women's golf teams have perfect 1,000 yearly APR scores in six consecutive reports. The 20 Penn State teams earned perfect APR scores of 1,000 in 2020-21 are: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, women's cross country, men's fencing, women's fencing, field hockey, men's golf, women's golf, men's gymnastics, women's gymnastics, men's hockey, women's hockey, women's lacrosse, men's soccer, softball, men's tennis, women's tennis, men's volleyball and women's volleyball. School-Record-Tying Twenty Teams Earn Perfect 1,000 APR Scores in 2020-21 ![]() We continue to prepare our students for a lifetime of impact and this great APR report shows our students take pride in having a complete student-athlete experience." "We hit record numbers again with 20 teams having a perfect 1,000 yearly APR score, which would not be attainable without the hard work for our student-athletes, but also the efforts of our coaches, Morgan Academic Center staff, faculty and support staff. "Through difficult circumstances during the 2020-21 academic year, overall our student-athletes continue to impress me with their dedication to their academics while excelling in competition," stated Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Sandy Barbour. "I'm so proud of the Nittany Lions, who have brought honor to our great institution yet again. Congratulations to all the student-athletes, coaches, advisors, trainers and faculty members who have achieved excellence and raised the bar for all student-athletes," said Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi. "Earning a degree while competing at the highest collegiate level is an incredible accomplishment. The women's golf team has posted a multi-year 1,000 APR score nine times. Six Penn State squads earned perfect multi-year (2017-18 through 2020-21) APR scores of 1,000: men's golf, men's gymnastics, women's fencing, women's golf, women's gymnastics and women's lacrosse. Six Teams Post Perfect Multi-Year 1,000 APR Scores ![]() Fourteen squads have a multi-year APR at least 10 points higher than the Division I all-sport average (984). Penn State's all-sport APR average for 2020-21 was 991, which meets one of the academic achievement unit benchmarks for the NCAA.Ī total of 20 teams (out of 29 – indoor and outdoor track and field are combined) equaled or surpassed their multi-year (four-year) APR score from the last public NCAA APR report in May 2020. The NCAA reported a school-record-tying 20 Penn State teams earned perfect APR scores of 1,000 during the 2020-21 academic year, equaling the record mark set in each of the last two reports. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa – Penn State student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom and surpass Division I national averages, according to Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released today by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
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