NCAA APR Release

RICHMOND, Va. – Ten VCU Athletics programs posted perfect single-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, while three teams received flawless rolling four-year marks, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
 
Baseball, Men's Soccer, Men's Tennis, Men's Track & Field, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Field Hockey, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Tennis and Volleyball all received 1,000-point scores for the 2020-21 academic year. Additionally, Women's Cross Country, Men's Soccer and Field Hockey were cited for perfect four-year scores.
 
APR is the NCAA's metric for measuring the overall academic health of each program, as well as tracking graduation rates.
 
The Rams' overall APR success also met the NCAA's Division I Academic Unit requirement, which entitles VCU Athletics to a share of revenue from the NCAA. VCU has met the NCAA Academic Unit requirement in each year since the inception of the program in 2020.
 
The APR report was an exclamation point on what was already a banner academic year for VCU student-athletes.
 
Additionally, VCU's nearly 300 student-athletes recorded a spring semester grade-point-average of 3.289, which marked the 15^th consecutive semester the Rams have collectively registered a 3.0 or better. The Women's Tennis program clocked in with a program-best 3.708 GPA for the semester. For the 2021-22 academic year, VCU student-athletes posted a 3.325 GPA overall.
 
Sixty-six student-athletes earned a 4.0 GPA or better in the spring, and 40 percent were named to Dean's List. Seventy-seven percent of VCU student-athletes recorded a 3.0 or better in the spring.
 
Senior golfer Adrian Vagberg (Solentuna, Sweden), who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA throughout his VCU career, was recently named the recipient of the Elite 90 Award at the NCAA Golf Championships, which is given to the student-athlete with the highest GPA at each championship site. Vagberg received his degree in Physics in May.