From UTSports Information
May 2, 2007

The University of Tennessee men’s and women’s athletics departments announced on Wednesday academic progress rates (APR) for student-athletes.

The APR report gives information about the academic progress and retention of student-athletes at the institution for the 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 academic years. Once available, four years of data will be compiled to calculate a team’s multiyear APR. The report provides an APR for each sport at the institution and national APR averages for various subgroups.

When a team’s academic performance, measured by that team’s APR, falls below 925, that team becomes subject to penalties if any student-athlete on that team did not return to the institution as a full-time student and was not academically eligible when the student-athlete left the institution. This penalty is known as a contemporaneous penalty and potentially limits the amount of athletics aid that the team may award.

UT’s multi-year academic progress rates for individual sports were:

+ - Denotes APR that does not subject the team to contemporaneous penalties due to the squad-size adjustment.

It looks like the Tennessee Basketball team escaped without losing a scholarship due to the Tony Passley transfer.

I believe the Tennessee baseball team is the only one that has suffered scholarship penalties due to APR.

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