Pittsburgh, Pa. – A total of nine programs as part of the Duquesne University Department of Athletics earned a perfect score of 1,000 on the latest multi-year progress rate (APR) released Tuesday by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).

Earning a perfect APR score of 1,000 for the 2023-24 academic year for the Dukes include the men's cross country and tennis programs as well as women's basketball, bowling, cross country and track & field, lacrosse, tennis and volleyball. In all, 14 Duquesne athletic programs produced a score of 979 or better.

Duquesne posted a multi-year average APR of 989 for the second consecutive year, five points above the national average and matching the institution's all-time best mark from 2020. The NCAA celebrates 21 years of Division I academic success, and the scores include data from 2020-21 through the 2023-24 academic years.

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Posting perfect multi-year APR scores of 1,000 for the Dukes from 2020 to 2024 is men's cross country and tennis as well as women's bowling. It marks the seventh consecutive year that the Duquesne bowling program has recorded a perfect multi-year rate. Each of the 16 varsity sports for the Dukes earned a multi-year rate of 960 or better, as included among the top performers with men's cross country and tennis as well as bowling is women's track & field (994), women's soccer (993), women's cross country (992), women's tennis (991) and women's basketball, lacrosse and swimming & diving, as each recorded a 990.

Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in NCAA Division I, the APR holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through a team-based metric that accounts for eligibility and retention of each student-athlete for each academic term. The APR includes both retention at an institution and academic eligibility in its calculation.

The success for Duquesne in the latest APR continues a trend of excellence, as in November of 2024 the department established a school record for Graduation Success Rate (GSR) with 92 percent of student-athletes graduating within a six-year window after enrolling as freshmen in 2017.

In the latest multi-year APR report for the NCAA, women's indoor and outdoor track & field are scored as one program, while DU's second-year triathlon team and women's acrobatic and tumbling and women's golf programs, which began competition during the 2024-25 academic year, are not included.

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