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Bowling Green Falcons track and field

The Bowling Green Falcons track and field team is the track and field program that represents Bowling Green State University. The Falcons compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the Mid-American Conference. The team is based in Bowling Green, Ohio, at the Whittaker Track.

The program is coached by Lou Snelling. The track and field program officially encompasses four teams because the NCAA considers men's and women's indoor track and field and outdoor track and field as separate sports.

Middle-distance runner Dave Wottle won the 1972 Olympic gold medal in the 800 meters while competing on the Bowling Green Falcons team. In 2023, he became the first Mid-American Conference athlete to be inducted into the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

In March 2002, the university announced they would cut the men's track and field teams at the end of the school year. Alumni opposed the cuts, and athletes including Sid Sink lamented the cuts through 2020.

Postseason

AIAW

The Falcons have had one AIAW All-American finishing in the top six at the AIAW indoor or outdoor championships.

NCAA

, a total of 8 men and 8 women have achieved individual first-team All-American status for the team at the Division I men's outdoor, women's outdoor, men's indoor, or women's indoor national championships (using the modern criteria of top-8 placing regardless of athlete nationality).

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