NATCHITOCHES – Four Northwestern State athletic programs earned perfect scores in the NCAA Division I's annual review of institutional academic performance by student-athletes.
 
The four NSU programs recording perfect 1,000 scores in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate (APR) report for the 2022-23 academic year are tennis, volleyball and men's and women's cross country.
 
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility and retention and provides a measure of each Division I team's performance compared to its peers.
 
The Northwestern State tennis team continued its run of perfect scores and has maintained that mark across the multi-year rate tally, which measures team scores across a four-year period.
 
Volleyball's perfect mark lifted its multi-year rate to a 989 mark while men's cross country also cleared the 980 mark in multi-year rate. Both NSU soccer (985) and NSU softball (980) have hit the 980 threshold or better in the multi-year rate.
 
In total, seven of NSU's programs scored at a 975 or better in the APR – with soccer (989), softball (988) and men's track and field (976) joining the four teams who posted perfect scores.