CLEVELAND, Ohio – Bowling Green State University's women’s athletics program has been named the winner of the 2024-25 Mid-American Conference Women’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Academic Achievement Award.
 
This marks the 12th time in program history for the Falcons to win 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 2024-25 academic year.
 
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 for the 12th time," 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 GPAs in women’s cross country (3.963), women’s swimming & diving (3.766) and women’s tennis (3.834). While the women’s teams earned 1000 APR in eight of their sport programs –basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swim and dive, tennis and volleyball.
 
Women’s Faculty Athletics Representative Academic Achievement Award
2024-25           Bowling Green State University
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