HONOLULU – University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Athletics posted an all-sport Academic Performance Rate (APR) score of 970 for the academic year 2022-23 in figures released by the NCAA Tuesday. The multiyear score is an average of all UH sports and based out of 1,000.
 
Among the highlights this year included both men's and women's basketball teams equaling their sports' respective national averages at 967 and 981, respectively. Women's basketball's multiyear score increased 12 points from the previous season and is its highest score in seven years. In addition, four other teams – men's swim and dive, men's tennis, softball, and women's volleyball – scored above their respective sports' national averages.
 
Women's golf saw the biggest jump among UH's 18 teams with a 29-point increase from last year while men's volleyball saw the biggest decline with an 18-point drop.
 
Four teams posted perfect single-year scores of 1,000 – men's tennis, women's basketball, women's golf, and women's volleyball. For the first time since 2014-15, no teams posted perfect multiyear scores while 14 of 18 teams posted lower multiyear scores compared to the previous year.
 
UH's all-sport multiyear score dropped by 10 points from last year's score of 980. Hawai'i's all-time high is 986 set in 2019-20.
 
Teams with a four-year score below 930 or a 950 average over the most recent two years, can be penalized by a loss of scholarships and post-season ban. For the 16^th consecutive year, no UH team will be penalized with loss of scholarship.
 

Sport	Multi-year	2022-23 Single-year	National Multi-year Average	Notes
Baseball	970	930	977	First time under national average since 2015-16
Men's Basketball	967	976	967	Multiyear equal/above national avg. for 5th straight year
Football	952	952	967	Multiyear +1 from LY
Men's Golf	985	943	989	First non-1,000 single-year score since 2016-17
Men's Swim & Dive	990	986	985	Fourth straight year w/multiyear score of 990 or better
Men's Tennis	990	1,000	987	Third straight year w/multiyear score of 990 or better
Men's Volleyball	967	906	981
Women's Basketball	981	1,000	981	Multiyear +12 from LY, highest multiyear in 7 years
Women's Beach Volleyball	991	983	993	Multiyear over 990 for second straight year
Women's Cross Country	970	964	989
Women's Golf	968	1,000	993	Multiyear +29 from LY, biggest jump among all sports
Softball	991	973	988	Multiyear -3 from LY's all-time high score
Women's Soccer	986	978	989	First time under national average since 2014-15
Women's Swim & Dive	983	976	992	8th straight year >980 multiyear score
Women's Tennis	983	929	991	First non-1,000 single-year score since 2017-18
Women's Track & Field	979	992	983	Single-year score +33 from LY
Women's Volleyball	995	1,000	990	5th single-year 1,000 since 2016-17
Women's Water Polo	980	971	984	6th >980 multiyear score since 2015-16

 
The APR is calculated based on the number of student-athletes on scholarship and those who are retained and remain eligible for competition.  The multi-year rate includes single-year scores from the past four academic years (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23).
 
The NCAA Committee on Academic Performance instituted the APR data requirements beginning in the 2003-04 academic year. The benchmark of 930 projects to an NCAA Graduation Success Rate of approximately 50 percent. The overall goal of measuring APRs is to encourage improved academic performance and help institutional administrators examine admission policies, retention and graduation rates, and improve academic support for student-athletes. Only student-athletes on scholarship are factored into the APR scores.
 
UH fields 21 intercollegiate sports programs, however, the NCAA's APR only includes 18 as indoor and outdoor track and field are counted as one score and coed and women's sailing are non-NCAA sports.
 
More information about the APR is available on the NCAA website (www.ncaa.org).