For the third time in the last four years, the Western Washington University Department of Athletics has earned the prestigious NCAA Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence. WWU’s student-athletes recorded an Academic Success Rate of 90%, part of a record 42 NCAA Division II member schools that earned the NCAA award in 2020. Western also earned the award in 2017 and 2018, and fell one-percent short in 2019. Western was one of only six public institutions to earn the award out of the 42 schools in 2020, and one of only two schools from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference joining Seattle Pacific University.