From UTSports Information
May 2, 2007
The University of Tennessee men’s and women’s athletics departments announced on Wednesday academic progress rates (APR) for student-athletes.
The APR report gives information about the academic progress and retention of student-athletes at the institution for the 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 academic years. Once available, four years of data will be compiled to calculate a team’s multiyear APR. The report provides an APR for each sport at the institution and national APR averages for various subgroups.
When a team’s academic performance, measured by that team’s APR, falls below 925, that team becomes subject to penalties if any student-athlete on that team did not return to the institution as a full-time student and was not academically eligible when the student-athlete left the institution. This penalty is known as a contemporaneous penalty and potentially limits the amount of athletics aid that the team may award.
UT’s multi-year academic progress rates for individual sports were:
| Men’s Sports | APR |
| Baseball | 865 |
| Basketball | 910+ |
| Cross Country | 947 |
| Football | 938 |
| Golf | 972 |
| Swimming and Diving | 914+ |
| Tennis | 939 |
| Track, Indoor | 936 |
| Track, Outdoor | 940 |
| Women’s Sports | APR |
| Basketball | 958 |
| Cross Country | 984 |
| Rowing | 983 |
| Golf | 989 |
| Soccer | 959 |
| Softball | 962 |
| Swimming | 975 |
| Tennis | 978 |
| Track, Indoor | 978 |
| Track, Outdoor | 978 |
| Volleyball | 976 |
+ – Denotes APR that does not subject the team to contemporaneous penalties due to the squad-size adjustment.
It looks like the Tennessee Basketball team escaped without losing a scholarship due to the Tony Passley transfer.
I believe the Tennessee baseball team is the only one that has suffered scholarship penalties due to APR.