May 14, 2025
Photo by Abbie Lankitus
The NCAA released the latest Academic Progress Rates for the current multiyear cohort on Tuesday with eight University of Missouri programs posting a perfect score and 15 teams either matching or exceeding their sport's national average. Thirteen Mizzou programs posted perfect single-year APR scores (1,000) for the most recent academic year (2023-24).
The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team's academic performance during a four-year evaluation period.
The eight teams that posted a perfect score during the current multiyear period (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24) includes women's golf for the 12th time in program history and a fourth straight season; women's basketball, gymnastics and volleyball for a sixth time in team history; plus soccer and softball for a third time. Other teams that earned perfect multiyear scores were men's cross country and men's track and field. In addition to those teams, the following programs produced perfect single-year APR scores for the 2023-24 academic year: men's basketball, men's golf, women's cross country, tennis and women's track and field.
Nine Mizzou programs received special recognition from the NCAA for earning multiyear APR scores that ranked in the top 10 % of all teams in their sport: men's cross country, track and field and wrestling; women's basketball, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball and volleyball. It marked the first time in program history that men's cross country and wrestling earned NCAA recognition in this category.
Additional highlights include:
- The Mizzou football team posted a multiyear score of 989 – 25 points better than the sport's average of 964 and the third-highest score among SEC schools and its second-best APR score in program history.
- Mizzou wrestling posted its best multiyear score (995) in program history and the best among all programs that compete in the Big 12 Conference.
- Eight Mizzou programs posted the best or tied for the best multiyear score in the SEC for their respective sport: men's cross country and track and field; and women's basketball, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball and volleyball.
- In addition to those eight teams, another eight programs produced multiyear APR scores higher than the national average across Division I: baseball, men's basketball, football and wrestling; and women's cross country, swimming and diving, tennis and track and field.
