Toledo, Ohio - The University of Toledo has been named the recipient of the 2017-18 Mid-American Conference Institutional Academic Achievement Award, the conference office announced today. For the past academic year, UT's student-athletes posted a school-record grade point average of 3.266. It is the fifth time in the last seven years that the Rockets have won the award.
"Establishing the record for highest grade point average in school history and earning the MAC Institutional Academic Award is a wonderful achievement by our student-athletes," said UT vice president and athletic director Mike O'Brien. "I'm especially proud of the tradition of academic excellence that we have established at the University of Toledo.