14 Auburn athletics programs attain perfect APR scores
AUBURN, Ala. (auburntigers.com)– Fourteen of Auburn’s 21 Athletics teams posted a perfect 1000 Academic Progress Rate score for the 2014-15 scoring period, according to the NCAA APR scores released Wednesday. Seven teams posted the highest multi-year APR scores among their peers in the Southeastern Conference.
Bruce Pearl’s men’s basketball team has posted a perfect 1000 for the second straight year, and a score of 982 from football is the second highest in the Southeastern Conference, behind only Vanderbilt. The multi-year mark is the best in the State of Alabama by a football team over the past 10 years
Auburn’s 21 sports safely scored within the Academic Progress Rate guidelines, with 86 percent of the programs posting a 980 or better.
Men’s and women’s cross country, women’s basketball, women’s golf, gymnastics and women’s tennis were awarded public recognition by the NCAA last week for scoring 1,000 over the last four years. They were joined in the last scoring period with perfect scores by men’s basketball, men’s indoor and outdoor track, softball, soccer, women’s swimming and diving, men’s golf and volleyball.
“Academic excellence and athletic success are the foundational pillars upon which we will establish Auburn University as the best school for the best athletes,” Director of Athletics Jay Jacobs said. “To know we are performing academically at the highest level in program history is a mark of distinction and testament to the hard work of our student-athletes on and off the field of play.”
