INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Academic Progress Reports (APR) were released Wednesday with the University of Dayton athletics programs continuing to excel.  Data contained in the report is through the 2017-18 academic year.

Six Flyer athletic programs had perfect 1000 scores: women's cross country, men's golf, women's golf, softball, men's tennis, and women's tennis.

Dayton's highlights from the report: 

• Six programs with perfect 1000 scores.
• Seven programs ranked first in both their respective conference (Atlantic 10 Conference for 13 sports, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for women's golf and the Pioneer Football League).
• Nine programs ranked first in the state of Ohio.
• Nine programs ranked in the top five in the conference.
• 13 programs ranked in the top seven in the state of Ohio.
• 13 team with APR scores of 990 or better.
• One of five schools in the A-10 to have at least six teams earn an APR recognition award.
• Dayton's overall average 990 is seven points better than the national average.
• Football led the Pioneer Football League for the sixth consecutive year, and ranked eighth nationally amongst all Division I programs.
• Dayton is one of just 15 institutions to have at least three teams earn APR recognition in each of the 14 years.  The other schools are Brown, Bucknell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Harvard, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Penn, Princeton and Yale.
• Nine Flyer teams have received the APR Recognition Award at least five times in the 14 years of the honors program. They are men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, football, men's and women's golf, rowing and women's tennis.
• The Dayton men's and women's golf programs have received the APR recognition award for 14 consecutive years – every time since the APR was instituted.  Dayton is the only university to have both its golf programs earn APR recognition all 14 years.

NCAA President Mark Emmert notes that the APR is working as intended. "We are proud of the continued high level of academic success Division I student‐athletes achieve," said NCAA President Mark Emmert. "We are seeing some flattening of rates, which is not unusual given the large amount of data over a long period of time. But we will continue to focus on academic achievement and graduation as the ultimate goal for college athletes."

Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, chair of the Division I Committee on Academics, recognized the impact of the Academic Performance Program. "The Committee on Academics commends the positive impact the Academic Performance Program has had for our students engaged in intercollegiate athletics," DeGioia said. "Thousands more students earn degrees every year with these academic expectations, accessing the lifelong benefits of a college education. We are proud of their success and sustained commitment to higher education."

Every Division I sports team across the nation calculates its Academic Progress Rate each academic year, like a report card, giving each team an assessment in real time. Scholarship student-athletes each semester earn one point for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating. At schools and in sports that don't offer scholarships, recruited student-athletes are tracked.