Tar Heel teams continued to excel in the classroom during the 2021-22 season, with more than a dozen programs posting perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores of 1,000. Those teams include women’s basketball, field hockey, men’s golf and women’s soccer.

Every Carolina program recorded at least a 950 multi-year rate, which measures APR over four years. Twenty-three of 28 teams scored at least 980 and 16 scored at least 990. The school’s multi-year average of 990 marks the fourth time in six seasons it has scored at or above that number.

Seven UNC programs recorded perfect multi-year APRs, including women’s tennis and volleyball. Football’s multi-year rate of 982 is its highest ever, though its single-year score of 984 dropped from 1,000 in 2020-21. Still, its last three APRs are the program’s highest since the number began to be tracked 19 years ago.

The field hockey program’s multi-year perfect score is its first ever. Softball, men’s track and field and baseball also each surpassed or tied multi-year bests. The women’s basketball program’s multi-year score of 986 is its best since head coach Courtney Banghart was hired before the 2019-20 season.

At least 10 women’s programs scored 1,000 for the 10th time in Carolina history. Women’s fencing continued its remarkable run of perfect scores in every year of the APR’s existence. Volleyball and women’s golf each have 17, and gymnastics and women’s golf have 16.

Men’s fencing and men’s golf are tied for the lead among men’s programs with 12 perfect scores, including in 2021-22. The men’s golf team has now recorded seven perfect scores in a row, the longest active streak among men’s programs.

Here is the complete list of teams which earned perfect single-year scores for 2021-22, along with the number of seasons they’ve done so:

  • Women’s basketball (6)
  • Men’s cross country (11)
  • Women’s cross country (13)
  • Men’s fencing (12)
  • Women’s fencing (19)
  • Field hockey (11)
  • Men’s golf (12)
  • Gymnastics (16)
  • Women’s soccer (11)
  • Softball (9)
  • Women’s swimming and diving (14)
  • Women’s tennis (16)
  • Men’s indoor and outdoor track & field (3)
  • Volleyball (3)

Here is the complete list of programs which recorded perfect multi-year rates:

  • Field hockey
  • Women’s soccer
  • Women’s tennis
  • Men’s golf
  • Women’s fencing
  • Women’s swimming and diving
  • Volleyball

 

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