The NCAA has announced Tuesday that all 19 of WKU’s athletic teams have recorded a score of at least 946 on the Academic Progress Rate, or APR, which is 16 points above the NCAA-mandated score of 930.

The APR is a tool used by the NCAA to monitor each university’s academic success rate each semester by tracking the academic status of each scholarship athlete.Recent scores are an average of the 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.                

Teams failing to score at least 930 experience repercussions such as, possible postseason bans, reduced scholarship and/or reduced practice time.

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“Congratulations to our student-athletes and coaches on these outstanding APR numbers,” Director of Athletics Todd Stewart said. “Every WKU sport has a multi-year APR above 945, and this past year marked the first time since the APR variable was introduced that every WKU sport exceeded a 930 APR in the same year. Our coaches recruit true student-athletes, and our athletes exhibit the same dedication in the classroom that they do in their sports.”

The WKU volleyball team recorded a perfect APR score of 1,000, making WKU just the seventh Sun Belt Conference school to notch a perfect score. 10 other teams scored above a 970.

More WKU student-athletes have been honored by the SBC for academic achievement than any other student-athletes within the league for nine consecutive years.