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Stony Brook Athletics Enjoys Academic Excellence, Sees Seven Teams Post Perfect APR Scores - Stony Brook University Athletics

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Stony Brook Athletics had eight of its 16 programs earn a multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) at or above the national average within its

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Stony Brook Athletics had eight of its 16 programs earn a multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) at or above the national average within its respective sport, with seven programs earning perfect single-year scores, as announced by the NCAA in its latest report.

All 16 of Stony Brook's sports programs recorded scores above the NCAA benchmark of 930 required to compete in the postseason. Cumulatively, Stony Brook posted an APR of 979 during the 2023-24 academic year. In terms of multi-year performance, women's basketball, softball, women's cross country, women's soccer, tennis, volleyball, baseball and football all met or exceeded the national average scores for their sports. As for the single-year figures, seven of Stony Brook's 16 teams achieved a perfect APR score of 1,000 in 2023-24: women's basketball, women's cross country, softball, women's soccer, tennis and volleyball.

In addition to this, softball, tennis, and volleyball were all honored with the NCAA Public Recognition Award as each team achieved a perfect multi-year APR score of 1,000 over the latest four-year period (2020-21 through 2023-24) and ranked in the top 10 percent in the nation in their respective sports.

Tennis now has five straight seasons with a perfect multi-year score of 1,000 and eight in a row with at least 990 points. Likewise, softball is up to four consecutive seasons with a perfect score and is also on an eight-year streak of scoring over 990. As for volleyball, this marks the sixth time the program has earned a score of 1,000 and the 10th year in a row that the team scored at 990 or higher.

Stony Brook softball is also the only softball program in the CAA to earn the Public Recognition Award this year. CAA women's tennis and volleyball had six teams and five teams honored, respectively.

On the men's side, men's lacrosse led the way in both single-year APR (993) and multi-year APR (987). Also of note is the baseball team, which set a new program record with its highest multi-year score ever at 984. This marks the third consecutive season in which baseball has set a new record.

The Division I Council, the entity established in 2014 to make decisions on NCAA legislation, has given way to the Division I Administrative Committee. The Council included 41 representatives with each conference represented plus two student-athletes, two faculty athletics representatives and four conference commissioners. This structure allowed for many voices across Division I, including my own as the CAA representative, to be heard.

To streamline the decision-making process, the Administrative Committee was reduced to a roster of only 20 members. The makeup of the group features eight representatives from the autonomy conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC). The remaining spots are assigned to two representatives from the nonautonomy FBS conferences, three representatives from the FCS conferences, three representatives from the Division I Subdivision conferences, one faculty athletics representative and three student-athlete representatives.

I was pleased to be selected for one of the FCS spots and look forward to the first in-person meeting of the Administrative Committee on October 6-7 in Indianapolis.