BOWLING GREEN — After two months of searching, Bowling Green finally has its new athletic director.
The Falcons tabbed Derek van der Merwe for their athletic director opening, vacated by the August firing of former athletic director and Bowling Green baseball alumnus Bob Moosbrugger. Stacy Kosciak served as interim athletic director before van der Merwe’s hiring.
Here are five things to know about van der Merwe as he takes charge of a department in flux amid college athletics’ brave new world.
He was a late comer to his sport
van der Merwe did not take up the game of football until his senior year of high school in Holly, Mich.