{"id":20007,"date":"2010-06-09T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=20007"},"modified":"2013-06-25T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:18:04","slug":"nau-student-athletes-shine-in-recent-academic-progress-rate-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-student-athletes-shine-in-recent-academic-progress-rate-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU student-athletes shine in recent Academic Progress Rate report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20009\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20009\" alt=\"Student Athlete GPA\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/soccerBG.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/05\/soccerBG.jpg 360w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/05\/soccerBG-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student-atlhetes like soccer&#8217;s Kristi Andreassen help contribute to NAU&#8217;s solid Academic Progress Rate report. Andreassen has a perfect 4.00 GPA in her academic career at NAU while studying exercise science.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Northern Arizona University student-athletes in all 15 of its sponsored sports are exceeding academic standards set by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA\u2019s annual Academic Progress Rate report, released today, measures eligibility, retention and graduation of student-athletes competing on every Division I sports team and has been shown to predict later graduation success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe graduation of our student-athletes is the primary goal of our department and the APR figures released by the NCAA indicate the priority and importance we place in these measures,\u201d said athletics director\u00a0<strong>Jim Fallis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The multiyear APR score is based on a four-year rolling average registering overall athlete eligibility and retention during the 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years. Teams must meet a minimum APR score of 925 out of 1000 points possible or risk losing scholarships and face other sanctions over time, including bans on postseason play.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in the report\u2019s six years of data, NAU has recorded multiyear scores above 925 in all 15 of its sponsored sports.<br \/>\nAt NAU, five teams had scores above 970 with 12 programs above 950.<\/p>\n<p>The volleyball team has the highest multiyear APR score at 979, while the women\u2019s basketball team had a multiyear rate of 977. Women\u2019s soccer and women\u2019s swimming were recorded at 976, and the women\u2019s golf and tennis programs recorded 975.<\/p>\n<p>Football saw continued improvement in its rate since the initial figures were released in 2005-06, scoring a 937 in the report after a 919 last season. Men\u2019s basketball had a 931 APR, just short of the Division I average of 940.<\/p>\n<p>View the 2010 multiyear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/wps\/portal\/ncaahome?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=\/ncaa\/NCAA\/Academics+and+Athletes\/Education+and+Research\/Academic+Reform\/APR\/2010\/2y79t8D4_2008-09_School_APR_Data.html\" target=\"_self\">Academic Progress Rate reports by school<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-student-athletes-shine-in-recent-academic-progress-rate-report-2\/\">Northern Arizona University student-athletes in all 15 of its sponsored sports are exceeding academic standards set by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The NCAA\u2019s annual Academic Progress Rate report, released today, measures eligibility, retention and graduation of student-athletes competing on every Division I sports team and has been shown to predict later graduation success. \u201cThe&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":20009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}