INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA announced its latest single and multi-year Academic Progress Report (APR) for NCAA Division I schools today. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation of all student-athletes on scholarship, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.
 
The latest multi-year APR calculations include scores from 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18. The average for Utah's teams was 985 easily exceeding the NCAA minimum requirement of 930.
 
"We are extremely pleased with the information in the latest APR Report because it reinforces our feelings that academic success continues to be at the forefront of our mission at the University of Utah," Utah Director of Athletics Mark Harlan said. "We aim to provide the best student-athlete experience in the nation. With the support of a tremendous Academic Services staff, as well as coaches who are committed to the improvement of our young men and women, this department lays the foundation for every Ute to achieve their goals."
 
Utah had eight sports (football, cross-country, gymnastics, women's skiing, soccer, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis, and volleyball) with perfect single-year APR scores of 1000. The volleyball team earned a perfect single-year APR score for the sixth consecutive year, gymnastics received a perfect score for the fifth straight season, and women's tennis has been perfect for three years in a row.
 
Gymnastics and volleyball each registered perfect multi-year APR scores of 1000. These teams, along with football, received public recognition from the NCAA for posting a multi-year APR in the top 10 percent of all athletic teams in the country. Gymnastics and volleyball also tied for the top multi-year APR score for the Pac-12.

The football team set a new record with a score of 989, which was an improvement of six points and earned them the second highest multi-year APR score in the Pac-12. This is the eighth-straight year that the football team has been in the top third of the Pac-12 Conference. The  cross-country (996) and men's tennis (993) teams tied for the second highest multi-year score in the Pac-12, while the men's basketball (980) team ranked third. 
 
Four Utah teams improved their multi-year scores from a year ago. Making gains were football (+6), women's skiing (+5), soccer (+5) and women's swimming and diving (+7).  Gymnastics, men's tennis, women's tennis and volleyball all maintained the same multi-year APR.

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