BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – One week after teasing the preliminary information from its annual report on Academic Progress Rate (APR), the NCAA released its full report on Wednesday with good news for Division I student-athletes across the board. Among those celebrating increased APR scores were the teams from CSU Bakersfield's Athletics Department.

Last week, the Roadrunners learned that three teams, volleyball, beach volleyball, and wrestling, ranked among the Top 10 percent in APR in the nation for their respective sports. CSUB discovered this week that 13 of 15 teams earned a multi-year APR of 950 or higher with the remaining two teams above 940.

Bakersfield enjoyed great success in the classroom this season as seven teams earned a perfect score of 1000 for a single-year rate: women's basketball, women's cross country, beach volleyball, volleyball, women's swimming, women's track, and men's track. The baseball and men's basketball teams were also close behind with both at 981 this season.

CSUB continues to thrive thanks to the benefits of the Accelerated Academic Success Program grant, which was awarded in the summer of 2014. As a result, Bakersfield has been able to hire additional academic support staff, advisors, and tutors for student-athletes and opened the new Kegley Center for Student Success.

The Kegley Center, which was relocated from a nearby smaller space, now includes over 7,000 square-feet of study and tutoring areas, computer labs, and academic support resources for CSUB student-athletes. The facility was funded by both the grant and the philanthropy of CSUB professor of philosophy and former faculty athletics representative Dr. Jacquelyn Kegley.

According to the NCAA, Division I student-athletes improved academically for the 13th consecutive year, earning another all-time high four-year Academic Progress Rate. The overall four-year rate is 983, up two points from the four-year rate announced last year. Four-year rates for baseball, football and women's basketball each increased 2 points to 975, 964 and 982, respectively. Men's basketball players raised their overall, four-year APR by a point, to 967.

Some of the most significant improvement has occurred among teams at historically black colleges and universities. The single-year rates for HBCUs have improved 34 points in the last five years alone, reaching 962 during 2016-17. All other schools increased 5 points during that time, from 979 to 984.

Every Division I sports team across the nation calculates its Academic Progress Rate each academic year, like a report card. Scholarship student-athletes each semester earn one point for remaining eligible and one point for staying in school or graduating.

Information from a press release by NCAA.com was used in this report.