BGSU Wins MAC Women's FAR Award for League-Record 11th Time
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Bowling Green State University has been named the winner of the 2023-24 Mid-American Conference Women's Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Academic Achievement Award, the conference office announced on Wednesday (Aug. 28).
This marks the 11th time in program history that the Falcons have won this prestigious annual award. The FAR Awards are designed to recognize the Conference institution with the highest overall combination of both grade point average (GPA) and Academic Progress Rate (APR) rank by gender. The GPA was based upon the 2023-24 academic year.
As mentioned, the latest award is BGSU's 11th All of the other MAC schools have combined to win this award six times.
The Conference FAR's worked with the Athletic Academic Advisors to compute an award that best represents the academic achievement of student-athletes in a competitive setting. The FAR Awards are given to those institutions male and female programs with the highest overall combination of GPA and APR within the Conference. Only MAC sponsored sports are used.
"The Falcon community is so proud of the success of our female student-athletes who have earned this prestigious award," said BGSU Director of Athletics Derek van der Merwe. "Our student-athletes have won this award more than any other school in the history of the conference. This is a great testament to the quality of student-athletes we recruit and also to the level of commitment our coaches and staff have to reinforcing the primacy of the academic mission at BGSU."
Bowling Green's women's athletics programs led the MAC in GPA in women's cross country (3.951), women's golf (3.864) and volleyball (3.875), and no fewer than nine women's programs earned a 1000 APR – basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swim and dive, tennis and volleyball.
Women's Faculty Athletics Representative Academic Achievement Award
2023-24 Bowling Green State University
2022-23 Western Michigan University
2021-22 Bowling Green State University
2020-21 Bowling Green State University
2019-20 Kent State University
2018-19 Bowling Green State University
2017-18 University of Toledo
2016-17 Bowling Green State University
2015-16 Bowling Green State University
2014-15 Bowling Green State University
2013-14 Bowling Green State University
2012-13 Central Michigan University
2011-12 Bowling Green State University
2010-11 Central Michigan University
2009-10 Bowling Green State University
2008-09 Bowling Green State University
2007-08 Central Michigan University
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