RENO, Nev. – The University of Nevada athletics department continues to shine in the NCAA's annual Academic Progress Rate report as Nevada recorded five perfect scores in the single-year data and its 15 sport programs averaged a score of 981 in the multiyear rate.

Nevada sports programs continue to perform well in the APR program as all 15 Nevada sports easily cleared the multiyear benchmark set by the NCAA. Six Wolf Pack programs – football, men's golf, rifle, women's cross country, softball and women's tennis – matched or improved upon their multiyear scores from a year ago. All of those sports except for football (977) posted perfect scores of 1,000 in the single-year data.

Last week, the Wolf Pack's football team earned the NCAA's Public Recognition Award after being ranked in the top 10 percent of all of the teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Nevada's sports programs have been honored with Public Recognition Awards 16 times over the past nine years.

"Our Wolf Pack student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom as well as on the playing field," said University President Marc Johnson. "We are extremely proud, in particular, of the work of all of our football staff members for the NCAA Public Recognition Award the Wolf Pack football team recently received for ranking in the top ten percent nationally for academic performance. This is a rare honor, and well-deserved. In just a few days, we will celebrate the graduations of more than 70 Wolf Pack student-athletes. These young people play an important role in the larger story of record student success rates across our entire student body."

The report, announced by the NCAA on Wednesday, measured eligibility and retention of student-athletes in the four years from 2014-15 to 2017-18. Nevada's complete APR report and APR data on all NCAA institutions is available online at www.ncaa.org. Nevada has met or exceeded the standards set by the NCAA and has been penalty-free in the history of the APR program.

"Not only do we support and recognize our students in their pursuit of athletic success, we do the same for their excellence in the classroom," said athletics director Doug Knuth. "We are grateful to the tremendous faculty on our campus for their support, as well as the leadership of President Johnson and our campus administration. We applaud our coaches for their commitment in identifying and recruiting the best and brightest student-athletes to our wonderful University."

The APR is a real-time "snapshot" of a team's academic success and is used by the NCAA and universities to measure current academic success by looking at the academic progress of each current student-athlete. It includes eligibility, retention, and graduation as factors in the rate calculation. Each student-athlete can add two points to the team's overall score per semester, including one for academic eligibility and one for returning to school the next semester or graduating.

To compete in the 2019‐20 postseason, teams must achieve a 930 four‐year APR. NCAA members chose the 930 standard because that score predicts, on average, a 50% graduation rate for teams at that APR level. Additionally, teams must earn at least a 930 four‐year APR to avoid penalties.

Since the Division I membership created the Academic Performance Program 15 years ago, more than 17,500 former student‐athletes have earned APR points for their prior teams by returning to college and earning a degree after their eligibility expired. Of those, more than half (9,174) competed in football, baseball or basketball. These students typically do not count in graduation rates because they earn degrees outside the six‐year window allowed by both the federal graduation rate and the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate.

NCAA President Mark Emmert praised the commitment to higher education among Division I student‐ athletes.

"We are proud of the continued high level of academic success Division I student‐athletes achieve," Emmert said. "We are seeing some flattening of rates, which is not unusual given the large amount of data over a long period of time. But we will continue to focus on academic achievement and graduation as the ultimate goal for college athletes."

Every Division I sports team submits data to have its Academic Progress Rate calculated each academic year. The NCAA reports both single‐year rates and four‐year rates, on which penalties for poor academic performance are based. National aggregates are based on all teams with usable, member‐provided data. APRs for each team, lists of teams receiving public recognition and those receiving sanctions are available online through the NCAA's searchable database.

Nevada's Graduation Success Rate was at 77 percent in the last annual report in the fall, just four points off the high-water mark in school history.
  The multiyear rate represents Nevada's scores from 2014-15 to 2017-18 academic years. The final four columns show the single-year scores for those academic years.

Women's Sports	Multiyear	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
Basketball	983	984	1,000	964	980
Cross Country	995	979	1,000	972	1,000
Golf	985	1,000	1,000	1,000	938
Soccer	978	979	979	979	971
Softball	991	975	987	1,000	1,000
Swimming and Diving	987	962	987	1,000	974
Tennis	976	966	1,000	933	1,000
Track and Field	973	967	992	953	982
Volleyball	990	1,000	1,000	1,000	958
Men's Sports	Multiyear	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
Baseball	955	954	991	947	926
Basketball	955	941	1,000	1,000	882
Football	989	987	994	1,000	977
Golf	993	1,000	969	1,000	1,000
Tennis	968	976	974	951	972
Mixed	Multiyear	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
Rifle	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
Average Score	981	978	991	980	970