INDIANAPOLIS - Three FDU teams recorded perfect four-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores from 2017-2021 with men's tennis, women's tennis and women's volleyball receiving a score of 1,000. The NCAA released the most recent APR data on June 14 for the 2020-21 academic year.

In addition, 12 Knights programs posted perfect marks for last academic year (20-21) with men's basketball, men's cross country, men's tennis, men's track and field, women's basketball, women's bowling, women's cross country, women's fencing, women's golf, women's tennis, women's track and field and women's volleyball getting the job done in the classroom, albeit under virtual circumstances in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We are so proud of our student-athletes and this amazing accomplishment for all three programs," remarked Director of Athletics Bradford Hurlbut. "They represent the very best of not only FDU, but collegiate athletics as a whole."

The APR is based upon eligibility and retention of student-athletes on a semester-by-semester basis and is an assessment of real-time academic success. The results of the fall and spring semesters, in a given year, are calculated as that year's APR score and averaged with the respective scores from the previous three years to provide a four-year (multi-year) snapshot of academic achievement.

Any student-athlete receiving athletic aid in a varsity sport can earn up to four points per year for being academically eligible and remaining enrolled in the institution. A team's APR is the total points earned on the roster divided by that squad's total possible points, multiplied by 1,000. Teams must achieve a 930 multi-year APR to avoid immediate penalties (involving the possible reduction of practice time and access to postseason competition). Those elements of the NCAA Division I APR remain suspended through spring 2023.

Connect with FDU Athletics on Twitter, @FDUKnights, and Instagram, @FDUKnightsAthletics.