INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA released its latest APR report on Tuesday. Manhattan Athletics continues to stand out at a high level, as it had three teams record a perfect score of 1,000, and 16 teams had a score of at least 960 over a three-year period.
"Our student-athletes, coaches, and staff understand the importance of academics and how it blends with athletics," said Director of Athletics Marianne Reilly. "The Jaspers are committed to performing well in their sport and in the classroom. We are proud of our student-athletes for competing at the highest level and learning at a Lasallian Catholic institution leading to a degree from Manhattan College."
The three teams that achieved a perfect score were women's cross country, women's soccer, and women's track and field.
Sixteen of Manhattan's teams recorded a multi-year average of at least 960. Those teams are; baseball (963), men's basketball (971), men's cross country (979), golf (967), men's lacrosse (982), men's soccer (978), men's track and field (963), softball (993), women's basketball (983), women's cross country (1,000), women's lacrosse (993), women's rowing (996), women's soccer (1,000), women's swimming and diving (971), women's track and field (1,000), and women's volleyball (984).
Manhattan also had 15 sports with a three-year APR score that is inside the top 50 percent nationally.
Through 2021-22 Manhattan posted a department-wide 3.27 cumulative GPA. The highest team GPA was women's lacrosse, with a 3.52 cumulative GPA. Overall, 14 teams had a GPA over 3.0. Manhattan had 213 student-athletes earn MAAC All-Academic Team honors last year.
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation success 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. The multiyear APR reflects NCAA Division I APR data submitted by schools for the 2018-19 through 2021-22 academic years.
