USC Athletics | May 02, 2023

LOS ANGELES — USC Athletics has set a brand new division file in incomes a multiyear 2023 NCAA Academic Progress Rate of 990 because of seventeen of its 21 sports activities incomes scores equal to or improved from 2022, in accordance with information that was launched at this time (May 2.).

Among the seventeen Trojan sports activities equalling or exceeding their earlier scores, 9 groups set or equaled their all-time greatest APR, and 19 USC squads had an APR that was above or equal to the nationwide Division I common for his or her sport. 

A staff’s APR accounts for eligibility, retention and commencement to generate a measure of educational efficiency. Each yr, the APR creates a snapshot of a staff’s educational success because it tracks the progress of every student-athlete on scholarship. The 2023 APR is a multiyear price based mostly on scores from the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 educational years. APR scores under 930 result in penalties that embody follow restrictions, enjoying season reductions and postseason ineligibility. The NCAA started monitoring APR in 2004-05. 

“We are proud to announce that the academic achievements of our student-athletes have surpassed expectations, yet again,” Associate Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Academic Services Heather Bell mentioned. “We owe this success not only to the hard work and dedication of our athletes but also to the unwavering support and collaboration of our Student-Athlete Academic Services staff, campus partners, coaches and esteemed faculty. Together, we have nurtured a culture of excellence that has empowered our student-athletes to achieve their full potential, on and off the field, and we are grateful for their contributions to this ongoing success. We are excited about what the future holds for our student-athletes and look forward to continued success and growth in all areas of their academic and athletic pursuits.”

USC’s 2023 APR rating of 990 is a brand new division excessive and continues the Trojans’ upward total trajectory. It follows final yr’s record-setting tally of 988, which was an enchancment from 985 in 2020. The NCAA didn’t launch its annual scorecard of educational achievement for all Division I groups in 2021, taking a one-year hiatus as a result of pandemic. 

Sixteen Trojan groups had at the very least a 990 APR, together with 9 at 1,000 (males’s basketball, males’s tennis, males’s monitor, girls’s seashore volleyball, girls’s cross nation, girls’s golf, girls’s tennis, girls’s monitor and girls’s volleyball). It was the eighth consecutive rating that ladies’s cross nation has hit the 1,000 mark, whereas girls’s golf did so for the sixth straight time and girls’s monitor for the third time in a row. Men’s tennis, in the meantime, picked up its second straight 1,000 rating, and girls’s seashore volleyball, certainly one of USC’s latest sports activities, was at 1,000 for the fifth time in its six all-time rankings. Men’s basketball and girls’s volleyball have scored their first-ever 1,000 scores to set new program highs. 

Besides these 9 squads that recorded an ideal 1,000 mark, the seven different USC groups this yr with at the very least a 990 APR had been girls’s soccer (997), males’s volleyball (996), males’s water polo (995), males’s swimming and diving (994), girls’s swimming and diving (994), girls’s rowing (993) and baseball (990).

USC’s 17 squads that equaled or exceeded their APR rating from 2022 had been: girls’s volleyball (+25), males’s basketball (+12), males’s swimming and diving (+8), girls’s tennis (+8), girls’s swimming and diving (+6), males’s monitor (+5), girls’s water polo (+5), girls’s lacrosse (+2), males’s tennis (identical), males’s volleyball (identical), girls’s basketball (identical), girls’s cross nation (identical), girls’s rowing (identical), girls’s golf (identical), girls’s soccer (identical), girls’s seashore volleyball (identical) and girls’s monitor (identical).

The 9 groups that set or equaled all-time excessive APRs had been: males’s basketball (1,000), girls’s volleyball (1,000), males’s tennis (1,000), girls’s cross nation (1,000), girls’s golf (1,000), girls’s tennis (1,000), girls’s monitor (1,000), males’s swimming and diving (994) and girls’s swimming and diving (994), 

Men’s basketball’s all-time excessive 1,000 was 12 factors higher than this system’s earlier greatest. Women’s volleyball’s new program excessive of 1,000 is 10 factors higher then its earlier greatest, and males’s swimming and diving’s new excessive mark of 994 is eight higher than its prior file. 

Football’s 2023 APR of 972 marks this system’s fifth consecutive rating with at the very least 970 APR. 

USC’s 19 groups whose multiyear APR exceeded or equaled the nationwide Division I common for his or her sport had been:  baseball, males’s basketball, girls’s basketball, girls’s seashore volleyball, girls’s cross nation, soccer, girls’s golf, girls’s rowing, girls’s soccer, males’s swimming and diving, girls’s swimming and diving, males’s tennis, girls’s tennis, males’s volleyball, girls’s volleyball, males’s water polo, girls’s water polo, males’s monitor and girls’s monitor. 

In the 2021-22 single-year calculation that goes into the general multiyear APR rating, 13 USC groups registered an ideal 1,000 rating (males’s basketball, males’s tennis, males’s monitor, males’s volleyball, girls’s seashore volleyball, girls’s cross nation, girls’s golf, girls’s rowing, girls’s lacrosse, girls’s soccer, girls’s tennis, girls’s monitor and girls’s volleyball). 

No USC sport was near the NCAA APR of 930 that results in penalties. In reality, all USC groups had been at the very least 42 factors above that baseline customary.

USC’s NCAA Graduation Success Rate of 93 p.c — announced in November 2022 — additionally set a brand new all-time excessive for the ninth consecutive time.