RUSTON – LA Tech registered its highest ever multi-year average (972.8) and highest ever single-year average (975.9) as the most recent Academic Progress Rates (APR) were released by the NCAA Tuesday.
 
Seven programs recorded a perfect 1,000 single-year APR score – the most ever during the 16 years of the academic measurement – while all 16 of Louisiana Tech's Division I sanctioned programs remained penalty-free.

Men's basketball, men's cross country, women's basketball, softball, women's cross country, bowling, and tennis all recorded a perfect single-year rate while men's basketball and football saw a historic high in their multi-year rates.

APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each quarter back tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete.  The APR includes eligibility, retention and graduation in the calculation and provides a picture of the academic culture in each sport.  Each sport earns a single-year rate and then a multi-year rate which is a four-year average of the single-year rates.
 
"I think these scores are a perfect reminder during this time what our overall mission within our athletic department is," said Tech Athletics Director Tommy McClelland.  "It's to graduate our student-athletes while providing them with a great overall college experience. I could not be more proud of our student-athletes as well as our coaching staffs and our support staffs.  We continue to strive for building champions in the classroom, on the playing fields and in life."  
 
The most recent APR scores are based on a multi-year rate that averages scores from the 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years.

A total of six programs (football, men's basketball, bowling, women's cross country, soccer, and tennis) recorded their highest ever multi-year APR scores while 10 programs saw an overall increase in their multi-year rate from the previous year.

Twenty-seven student-athletes are scheduled to graduate this spring. Just recently 199 of the LA Tech student-athletes earned a spot on the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll while an additional 44 were named C-USA Academic Medalists.