Athens Messenger · May 24, 2018
Ohio comes up clean in APR report
The Ohio University women’s basketball team, including forward Gabby Burris (41), scored a perfect 1,000 in the NCAA’s APR metric for the 2016-17 academic year.The NCAA released its annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) report for all Division I member institutions on Wednesday.
The APR is a measure that tracks academic progress for athletes using graduation, retention and eligibility during a four-year period. A perfect score is 1,000, and individual programs that score below 930 can face consequences from college sports’ governing body including practice restrictions, playing-season reductions and scholarship reductions.