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BGSU Women Win MAC FAR Award For Eighth Time In Twelve Years
August 23, 2019 | General
Cleveland, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University women's athletics program has been named the winner of the 2018-19 Mid-American Conference Women's Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Academic Achievement Award. The Falcons have won the award for the eighth time in the 12 years since the inception of the award, as well as for the fifth time in the last six seasons. The FAR Awards are designed to recognize the conference institution with the overall highest-grade point average (GPA) and academic progress report (APR) combined by gender.
The conference FAR's worked with the Athletic Academic Advisors to compute an award that best represents the academic achievement of students in a competitive setting. Using the same ranking method as the long-time Reese and Jacoby trophies, traditionally awarded to the best overall male and female athletic programs in the MAC, the FAR Awards are given to those institutions male and female programs with the highest overall GPA and APR combined within the Conference. Only MAC sponsored sports are used.
Bowling Green's female student-athletes posted a cumulative grade point average of 3.57 for the 2018-19 school year. Sixty-nine percent of Bowling Green's female student-athletes maintain a 3.5 cumulative GPA or better and 14.8 percent have a 4.00 GPA. Nine of Bowling Green's women's teams have a cumulative 3.5 grade point average or better.
"The lessons learned through sports continue to carry over to the classroom," said Bob Moosbrugger, Bowling Green Director of Athletics. "Our female student-athletes are inspiring to watch compete on the field of competition. In the classroom, they are dedicated to carrying that warrior mentality – grit and perseverance – to reach their academic goals as well. This award is recognition of their dedication toward being a complete student-athlete.Congratulations to our women's teams, their coaching staffs and the student-athlete services unit at Bowling Green."
Bowling Green had the highest GPA rank as the Falcons women carried the highest league GPA in women's golf (3.70 GPA), women's softball (3.612 GPA) and women's tennis (3.616 GPA), while posting the second highest GPA rank in women's swimming and diving (3.594 GPA) during the 2018-19 academic year.
Women's Faculty Athletics Representative Academic Achievement Award
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
The conference FAR's worked with the Athletic Academic Advisors to compute an award that best represents the academic achievement of students in a competitive setting. Using the same ranking method as the long-time Reese and Jacoby trophies, traditionally awarded to the best overall male and female athletic programs in the MAC, the FAR Awards are given to those institutions male and female programs with the highest overall GPA and APR combined within the Conference. Only MAC sponsored sports are used.
Bowling Green's female student-athletes posted a cumulative grade point average of 3.57 for the 2018-19 school year. Sixty-nine percent of Bowling Green's female student-athletes maintain a 3.5 cumulative GPA or better and 14.8 percent have a 4.00 GPA. Nine of Bowling Green's women's teams have a cumulative 3.5 grade point average or better.
"The lessons learned through sports continue to carry over to the classroom," said Bob Moosbrugger, Bowling Green Director of Athletics. "Our female student-athletes are inspiring to watch compete on the field of competition. In the classroom, they are dedicated to carrying that warrior mentality – grit and perseverance – to reach their academic goals as well. This award is recognition of their dedication toward being a complete student-athlete.Congratulations to our women's teams, their coaching staffs and the student-athlete services unit at Bowling Green."
Bowling Green had the highest GPA rank as the Falcons women carried the highest league GPA in women's golf (3.70 GPA), women's softball (3.612 GPA) and women's tennis (3.616 GPA), while posting the second highest GPA rank in women's swimming and diving (3.594 GPA) during the 2018-19 academic year.
Women's Faculty Athletics Representative Academic Achievement Award
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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