CLEVELAND, Ohio – For the first time in program history, Kent State University has been named the winner of the 2020-21 Mid-American Conference Institutional Academic Achievement Award. For this annual award, the Golden Flashes posted an overall athletic grade point average (GPA) of 3.447 for the 2020-21 academic year based on 445 students in 19 sports.
Eleven Kent State athletic programs posted a 3.50 GPA or higher. Kent State had 12 programs post single year perfect score APR rankings of 1,000, while women's basketball, men's golf, women's golf, gymnastics and men's cross country all averaged a perfect score APR ranking of 1,000 over the previous four seasons.