BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green has hired University of Arizona deputy athletic director Derek van der Merwe as its next athletic director, The Blade has learned.
The university will announce the next leader of its athletics department at a press conference Tuesday morning at 10:30. Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed the hire to The Blade.
van der Merwe has spent five years in the Wildcats’ athletic department. According to his official Arizona biography, van der Merwe was responsible for “day-to-day internal management of the department and chief financial officer duties.”
The announcement comes two months and one day after Bowling Green fired its previous athletic director, Bob Moosbrugger.