BGSU Captures 2009-10 MAC Institutional Academic Achievement Award
August 17, 2010 | General
Cleveland, Ohio – Bowling Green State University has been named the winner of the 2009-10 Mid-American Conference Institutional Academic Achievement Award. For the academic year, BGSU's student-athletes posted a MAC-best 3.107 grade point average based on 376 student-athletes across 17 sports.
The honor is presented annually to the MAC institution which achieves the highest single-year GPA among its student-athletes.
“We are really pleased to win this award,” Mark Shook, the Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Student-Athlete Services, said. “This represents a total team effort from the student-athletes who do the work in the classroom to the coaches and the support staff we've put around them.”
BGSU's student-athletes set a new record by posting a cumulative 3.07 GPA through the end of the 2009-10 school year. In fact, 22 student-athletes maintain a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA and numerous teams have been recognized for academic success this year.
The tennis team received APR recognition as being ranked in the top 10 percent of all tennis programs in the country, while the women's basketball team was named to the WBCA Academic Honor Roll with the sixth-best team GPA in the country. The volleyball team received the AVCA Team Academic Award for the tenth consecutive year and the track and field program earned the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award.
In total, 13 of Bowling Green's 18 varsity sports carry a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.
“Our goal is to compete in the classroom as well as on the field of competition,” Shook said. “We're working towards that goal and this award recognizes the effort we've put forth. But we can still do more and we're not going to rest on it.”
A list of the top five schools follows:
The honor is presented annually to the MAC institution which achieves the highest single-year GPA among its student-athletes.
“We are really pleased to win this award,” Mark Shook, the Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Student-Athlete Services, said. “This represents a total team effort from the student-athletes who do the work in the classroom to the coaches and the support staff we've put around them.”
BGSU's student-athletes set a new record by posting a cumulative 3.07 GPA through the end of the 2009-10 school year. In fact, 22 student-athletes maintain a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA and numerous teams have been recognized for academic success this year.
The tennis team received APR recognition as being ranked in the top 10 percent of all tennis programs in the country, while the women's basketball team was named to the WBCA Academic Honor Roll with the sixth-best team GPA in the country. The volleyball team received the AVCA Team Academic Award for the tenth consecutive year and the track and field program earned the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award.
In total, 13 of Bowling Green's 18 varsity sports carry a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.
“Our goal is to compete in the classroom as well as on the field of competition,” Shook said. “We're working towards that goal and this award recognizes the effort we've put forth. But we can still do more and we're not going to rest on it.”
A list of the top five schools follows:
| Institution | Sports | Student-Athletes | GPA |
| Bowling Green | 17 | 376 | 3.107 |
| Toledo | 14 | 360 | 3.101 |
| Ball State | 19 | 427 | 3.061 |
| Miami | 19 | 534 | 3.041 |
| Eastern Michigan | 21 | 547 | 3.026 |
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