University of Utah Athletics

INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA released its annual Division I Academic Progress Rate report (APR) on Tuesday, and eight University of Utah sport programs earned perfect scores of 1000 in the single-year report for the 2023-24 academic year.
 
In addition, the Utes’ women’s soccer program earned a perfect multi-year mark of 1000. The multi-year scores are compiled from a four-year period, which began in the fall of 2020 for the 2023-24 report.
 
The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation of all student-athletes on scholarship, and provides a measure of each team’s academic performance.
 
The eight Utah teams to earn perfect 1000 single-year scores for the 2023-24 reporting year are women’s basketball, women’s cross country, women’s skiing, men’s skiing, women’s soccer, softball, men’s tennis and women’s volleyball.

“The latest APR report reflects the tremendous quality of the students who participate in intercollegiate athletics at the University of Utah,” said Mark Harlan, Director of Athletics. “The four-year time period covered by this report has brought significant change to our industry, and through all of that our student-athletes have continued to demonstrate great commitment and determination in pursuit of excellence academically and athletically. I’m incredibly proud of their achievements and hard work, as well as that of our coaches, staff and administrators.”

• The men’s and women’s skiing teams, which earned a perfect 1000 for 2023-24 and scores of 990 and 995, respectively, for the multi-year rate, have claimed three national championships and one runner-up finish in the four years reflected by this report;
• Women’s basketball earned a multi-year rate of 995, covering a time period in which the program earned three consecutive NCAA tournament bids and reached the Sweet Sixteen in 2022-23;
• The Women’s Swimming & Diving program earned a 996 in the multi-year report, for a time period in which Utah’s divers earned five All-America honors and claimed two individual conference titles.

Since the inception of the program in 2003, 19 different Utah teams have earned at least one perfect score in the single-year report, and 10 programs have earned a perfect score in the multi-year report (men’s basketball, cross country, men’s golf, gymnastics, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis, men’s tennis, women’s volleyball and beach volleyball).

The full NCAA APR release and data can be accessed by using the APR searchable database.

Utah Athletics recently celebrated 87 current or former student-athletes who earned their degrees over the past year. The Utes’ student-athletes also tied the department’s highest mark and ranked among the top institutions in the nation in the 2024 NCAA Graduation Success Rate, with a 95-percent score. It marked the seventh consecutive year that Utah’s score has met or exceeded the 93-percent benchmark, reflecting the percentage of student-athletes who earned their undergraduate degree within six years of enrolling at the U.