BOCA RATON, Fla. – For the second consecutive year, Florida Atlantic University has achieved a record number of teams with perfect Academic Progress Rates (APR). According to the NCAA Division I Institutional Report, FAU had 14 out of 19 teams earn a 1,000 score on the APR in 2017-18.
“FAU athletics has established a culture that fosters academic achievement and excellence,” said Senior Associate Athletic Director for Academics and Student Development, Eric Coleman. “Fourteen teams earning a perfect APR score is a tremendous accomplishment and it illustrates that our student-athletes are not only thriving in the classroom, they are being retained at FAU and are productive members in our campus community.”
Since 2013-14, FAU has continued to produce more teams with perfect scores. Last year, the Owls had 10 teams achieve the feat and that was up from eight in 2015-16.
The 2017-18 teams that tallied a perfect score are baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, beach volleyball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, women’s golf, women’s soccer, softball, men’s swimming and diving, women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis, track and field, and volleyball.
APR was implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in NCAA Division I. The APR holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic team.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 CheriBundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
