APR Release: MAAC Schools Achieve Academic Success
MAAC Sports
EDISON N.J. - Each year, the NCAA honors selected Division I sports teams by publicly recognizing their latest multiyear NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR). This announcement is part of the overall Division I academic reform effort and is intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports. Specifically, these teams posted multiyear APRs in the top 10 percent of all squads in each sport.
All eleven Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) schools had at least one team that posted multi-year APR’s in the top 10% of all squads in each sport, with Fairfield, Siena, Canisius and Niagara having 6, 6, 5, and 4 teams respectively in the top 10% in each sport. Monmouth's women's tennis team is one of 129 teams that have earned Public Recognition Awards each of the 10 years they have been awarded.
“Student-athlete welfare is a buzz word in the college sports community and there is no better measure of a Division I schools commitment to their athletes than the NCAA’s APR success, particularly the number of MAAC team in the top 10% of their sport,” notes MAAC Commissioner Richard Ensor. “I congratulate all the student-athletes, coaches and administrators whose hard work in the classroom and support has led to this recognition.”
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.