Tar Heel Teams Excel Again In APR

The University of North Carolina women's soccer team, which won its 23rd national championship last December, also scored a perfect single-year 1000 in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rates for student-athletes, which the NCAA released today.

Fifteen Tar Heel teams scored a perfect 1000 in the single-year rate, and four – men's and women's golf, women's cross country and women's tennis – recorded perfect 1000s in the four-year rates. Twenty-one teams exceeded the NCAA average in the multi-year rates.

Carolina's single-year, all-sport rate of 991 climbed two points from a year ago and the four-year rate for all sports was 991 for the second year in a row. This was the fourth consecutive year and sixth time in the last eight years the Tar Heels established an all-sport multi-year rate of 990 or higher.

Women's soccer's four-year rate of 997 is the program's eighth-straight at 997 or higher.

Women's tennis, which won the ACC title for the second year in row on April 20 to earn its 26th consecutive NCAA Tournament bid, scored 1000 in the single-year rate for the 15th year in a row, the longest streak by any of Carolina's 28 teams. Its four-year 1000 is the 12th perfect multi-year rate, also the longest active streak in the program.

It was the ninth-consecutive year the men's golf team produced a single-year 1000 and the eighth year in row it had a four-year rate of 1000. The men's golf team has finished in the top five in the NCAA Championship four years in row, just the second time in Atlantic Coast Conference history a men's golf team has accomplished that. Men's golf's nine-year run of 1000s is the longest by any Tar Heel men's program.

The NCAA uses Academic Progress Rates to track the academic performance of scholarship students who compete on varsity teams. The score measures eligibility and retention each semester by student-athletes at every NCAA institution. A perfect score is 1000, and the minimum NCAA benchmark is 930.

The current data reflects the 2023-24 school year; the multi-year rates include rates over the past four years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

Baseball, women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, field hockey, gymnastics, women's lacrosse, rowing, women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming and diving and women's tennis all achieved a perfect 1000 in 2023-24.

For the second time in as many years, the football team tied its best four-year rate of 996 and earned a Top 10 recognition. The football team also recorded its fifth-straight one-year rate of 984 or higher.

The Carolina baseball team, which made its 12th College World Series appearance last spring, earned its highest multi-year rate at 992.

Other notable sport-by-sport milestones include:

Women's basketball posted 1000 for the third year in a row and fourth in the last five years. Its multi-year 995 was the team's highest for the second straight year.
Women's cross country earned a multi-year 1000 for the first time since 2010-2011 and had its fourth straight single-year 1000 and sixth in seven years.
Field hockey had its fifth single-year 1000 in six years.
Women's golf registered a multi-year and single-year 1000 for the third time in four years.
Gymnastics compiled a multi-year rate of 990 or higher for the 19th straight year.
Men's lacrosse earned a multi-year rating of 997 for the second straight year and has reached 997 or higher in three of the last four years.
Women's lacrosse, which won the 2025 ACC Championship on Sunday, earned a single-year rating of 1000 for the seventh time in 10 years.
Rowing's multi-year 996 was its sixth-straight 995 or higher and third single-year 1000 in five years.
Softball scored a multi-year 991 or higher for the ninth straight year and had a single-year 1000 for the fourth time in six years.
Men's swimming and diving earned a single-year 1000 for the second time in three years.
Women's swimming and diving's four-year rate of 998 continues the team's streak of 995 or better every year, and it posted a single-year 1000 for the fourth time in five years.
Men's track and field earned a multi-year of 989 or higher for the third straight year.
Wrestling's single-year 991 was highest since 2019-2020.

Twenty-five of Carolina's 28 teams achieved single-year rates of 970 or higher, including men's basketball, and 23 had multi-year rates of 980 or better.

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