INDIANAPOLIS-- Three University of North Dakota teams earned perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) multi-year scores and a whopping nine had perfect 2018-19 scores as all 15 of North Dakota's teams exceeded the national threshold, according to data released Tuesday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
 
For 2018-19 data alone, the nine UND teams that saw perfect 1000 scores were: hockey, men's cross country, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's soccer and women's tennis joining the three teams lauded last week for perfect multi-year scores (men's and women's golf and women's cross country). Those three teams received NCAA Public Recognition Awards last week for scoring in the top 10 percent nationally. UND has led its conference in NCAA Public Recognition Awards in five of the last six years. With the 2018-19 data, 12 of UND's programs saw multi-rate APR scores rise or remain perfect from the previous year.
 
Each of UND's 15 teams recorded multi-year APR scores above the four-year minimum score of 930 required to be eligible for the 2020-21 postseason. Additionally, teams must earn at least a 930 four-year APR to avoid other penalties.
 
"Since APR has taken on greater significance, this year's achievements by our athletic programs are that much more important," said UND Director of Athletics Bill Chaves. "I want to commend our student-athletes, coaches and staff for their diligence in making this a daily priority."
 
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric where scholarship student-athletes earn one point each term for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that don't offer scholarships track their recruited student-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. 
 
UND's 2018-19 multi-year APR Scores
Football: 962
Men's Basketball: 964
Men's Cross Country: 983
Men's Golf: 1000
Men's Hockey: 981
 
Men's Tennis: 945
Men's Track & Field: 966
Softball: 986
Women's Basketball: 987
Women's Cross Country: 1000
 
Women's Golf: 1000
Women's Soccer: 992
Women's Tennis: 980
Women's Track & Field: 996
Women's Volleyball: 984