Bowling Green State University Wins 2024-25 Mid-American Conference Women's Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Academic Achievement Award
For the 12th time in its history, Bowling Green State University (BGSU) has been named the winner of the 2024-25 Mid-American Conference Women's Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Academic Achievement Award. This prestigious annual award recognizes the conference institution with the highest overall combination of both grade point average (GPA) and Academic Progress Rate (APR) rank by gender. BGSU's women's athletics programs have consistently demonstrated exceptional academic achievement, with impressive GPAs in women's cross country, women's swimming & diving, and women's tennis.
Key Takeaways:
- BGSU has won the Mid-American Conference Women's FAR Academic Achievement Award 12 times, the most of any school in the conference's history.
- The award is given to institutions with the highest overall combination of GPA and APR rank by gender, and only MAC-sponsored sports are used.
- BGSU's women's athletics programs led the MAC in GPAs in women's cross country (3.963), women's swimming & diving (3.766), and women's tennis (3.834).
- The women's teams from BGSU earned a perfect 1000 APR in eight of their sport programs: basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swim and dive, tennis, and volleyball.
- BGSU Director of Athletics Derek van der Merwe attributed the team's success to the quality of student-athletes recruited and the level of commitment of coaches and staff to reinforcing the academic mission at BGSU.
Statistics:
- 12: The number of times BGSU has won the Mid-American Conference Women's FAR Academic Achievement Award.
- 1000: The APR score earned by BGSU's women's teams in eight of their sport programs.
- 3.963: The GPA of BGSU's women's cross country team.
- 3.766: The GPA of BGSU's women's swimming & diving team.
- 3.834: The GPA of BGSU's women's tennis team.
Sources:
- Bowling Green State University Athletics of Ohio news release (Aug. 27)