The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference has announced its
Top 20 moments for each sport to complete the celebration of the
league's 20th anniversary as the SCAC.
Click to the SCAC Nation to vote for your favorite Top 20
moment of all-time. To review all of the Top 20 moments for each
sport, click here.
Each top moment - sport-by-sport - is listed below with a
link to both the complete release as well as interviews with
those who participated in the moment.
BASEBALL
April 27,
2008
After Millsaps College forced a decisive second game against
Trinity University in the 2008 SCAC baseball title game on Sunday
with a 10-5 win in the opener, junior shortstop Stosh Hoover
delivered a two-out, two-RBI double to right-center in the bottom
of the ninth to cap a four-run ninth inning and propel the
top-seeded Tigers into the NCAA Tournament in one of the most
amazing championship game finishes in conference history.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL
February 26,
2006
Junior wing Austin Brown nails a 61-foot shot off glass at the
buzzer to lift DePauw University to a 64-61 victory over Centre
College, a SCAC men’s basketball title and a ticket to the
2006 NCAA Division III Championship. The shot is selected as
ESPN's "Play of the Day”, and the cable television
sports network airs a video clip of the fantastic finish --
complete with commentary by WGRE's Wes Anderson and Steve Powell --
on SportsCenter. The audio of the two students'
play-by-play of the winning basket also airs nationally on
ESPN radio. More
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
March 21-22,
2003 / March 16-17, 2007
It's like being asked, as a parent of multiple children, to choose
your favorite. In the only team sport where the Southern Collegiate
Athletic Conference has more than one national champion, how could
you possibly choose which women's basketball title is more
important? Sure, Trinity University was the first to wear the
crown. The unranked Tigers made an improbable run to the 2003
national title, culminating with a 60-58 victory over Eastern
Connecticut State University in the title game as a baseline jumper
by Allison Wooley with 11 seconds remaining provided the final
margin. But how can you not recognize DePauw University's 2007
championship run when the Tigers rallied from a 10-point deficit in
the semifinals behind a 28-point effort from Liz Bondi and then
held off Washington (Mo.) University, 55-52, in the championship
game? More
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
October 30,
1999
The Rhodes College men win their 10th consecutive CAC/SCAC cross
country title at the 1999 SCAC Cross Country championships at
Hendrix College. In the third-closest finish in the history of the
event, the Lynx edged Trinity University by nine points and DePauw
University by 11 as head coach Robert Shankman earned his ninth
straight SCAC Men's Cross Country Coach-of-the-Year honor in
post-race voting. More
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
November 22,
2008
Trinity University posts the best finish by a SCAC school in
national championship meet history as the Tiger women finish sixth
at the 2008 NCAA Women's Cross Country Championships at Hanover
College. Led by a 17th-place individual finish by senior Emily
Loeffler with a time of 21:31.04, Trinity finishes with 317 points,
just seven points behind fifth-place University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire. Loeffler earns all-America honors with her finish and
becomes Trinity's first-ever cross country all-American, male or
female. More
FIELD HOCKEY
November 9,
2008
Playing its third game in three days, the No. 4 Sewanee
Tigers became SCAC field hockey champions with a 1-0 upset over No.
2 seed and host Centre College. The Tigers and Colonels fought
through a scoreless first half, as both defenses set the tone
early. Sewanee got the championship clinching goal from sophomore
Caroline Carlin off of a penalty-corner with 14:28 to play. It is
the first-ever field hockey championship for Sewanee (14-6), who
lost its two previous appearances in the SCAC championship match.
To date, Sewanee is the only school in SCAC field hockey history to
play and win three matches in three days at the conference
championship tournament. More
FOOTBALL
October 27,
2007
In what many have called the most incredible ending to any football
game at any level, Trinity University used 15 laterals to go 60
yards and score on the final play of the game and defeat Millsaps
College, 28-24. The play – dubbed the Mississippi Miracle
– became an instant sensation on YouTube (It was recognized
by USA Today as part of a decade-ending countdown of the
top 10 Web sports sensations since 2000), and was named the Pontiac
Game Changing Performance of the 2007 NCAA Football season and Time
Magazine's #1 Sports Moment of 2007. More
MEN'S GOLF
March 13-16,
2009
With a final-round 289, the Oglethorpe University men's golf team
came from four strokes down to earn the school's first-ever
national title, winning the 2009 NCAA Division III Men's Golf
Championship at the PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Oglethorpe
chased down Methodist University, the 54-hole leader, and held off
a charging University of La Verne to earn the Championship win. The
Petrels finished with a four day total of 12-over par 1164 to best
La Verne who came in at 16-over par 1168. More
WOMEN'S GOLF
May 8-11,
2007
DePauw University posts its best finish ever, coming in second
place with a team score of 1303 at the 2007 Division III
Women’s Golf Tournament played at Mission Inn-El Campeon in
Howey in the Hills, Fla. Southwestern University also posts its
best finish in program history, coming in fourth out of 20 schools
with a team score of 1322. The event was hosted by fellow SCAC
school, Oglethorpe University. More
MEN'S SOCCER
November 30,
2003
Senior midfielder Josh Smith, the SCAC Player-of-the-Year, scored
the eventual game-winner to give Trinity University a 2-1 win over
the host school, Drew University, in the championship match of the
2003 NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Tournament. The Tigers end the
season with a perfect 24-0-0 record. The title represents the first
soccer national championship for any school - in any NCAA division
- in the state of Texas. More
WOMEN'S SOCCER
November 11,
2000
Hosting a national quarterfinals match, the second-ranked Trinity
University women defeat eighth-ranked Willamette University, 3-1,
to advance to the 2000 NCAA Division III Women’s Final Four
– a first for any SCAC women’s soccer program.
Willamette had gone 134 matches without losing by more than a
single goal, dating back to the 1995 season. Trinity, which faced
top-ranked College of New Jersey in the round of four at Tufts
University in Medford, Mass., a week later, dropped a 1-0 overtime
decision to the Lions to end the season with a 19-2-1 mark.
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SOFTBALL
May 13,
2007
DePauw University jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third inning of
its 2007 NCAA Division III Softball Regional Championship game
against Bridgewater (Va.) College and held on for a 6-1 win to
advance to the Division III finals in Salem, Va. - the first SCAC
softball team to ever reach the finals. The Tigers finished 4-0 at
the regional and improved to 36-5 overall. Megan Soultz posted her
18th win of the season as the freshman allowed just four hits and
one unearned run in seven innings while striking out five and
walking just one. She posted a 4-0 record in the regional with a
0.97 ERA. More
MEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING
March 20-22,
2003
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology senior Matt Smith
becomes the first swimmer in school and conference history to win
an individual national championship with his efforts in the
100-yard breaststroke at the 2003 NCAA Division III Men’s
Swimming and Diving National Championships at Emory (Ga.)
University. Smith, who took top honors in the event with a 56.20
finish, followed up his championship performance with a swimming
program school-record fourth career all-American award by finishing
fifth in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:04.73. The
fifth-place time was a personal-best for Smith and another
Rose-Hulman school record. More
WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING
March 19-20,
2010
On back to back days at the 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming
& Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatic
Center, Trinity University's Lindsay Martin and Hayley Emerick post
national championship performances on the 1- and 3-meter boards
respectively - producing the first individual national
championships for both Trinity and the SCAC in women's swimming and
diving history. Martin captured 1-meter honors, registering a score
of 472.25 and outdistancing second-place Sarah Ficarro of
SUNY-Fredonia by nearly 15 points (457.30). Emerick posted a
winning score of 514.15 in the 3-meter finals, after setting an
NCAA record of 517.10 in the preliminaries. Martin finished second
on the 3-meter board with a score of 490.90. The duo led Trinity to
a 16th-place team finish (71 points) - tying for the program's
highest-ever finish at the national meet. More
MEN'S TENNIS
May 21,
2000
Playing in the national title match of the 2000 NCAA Division III
Men's Tennis Championships on the campus of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
fourth-ranked Trinity University defeats Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.)
College, 4-3, to earn the program its first-ever NCAA Division III
men's team title. After rallying to tie the match at three points
apiece, Trinity’s Ed Rahn remained on the court, needing a
win at No. 4 singles to give the Tigers the title. After dropping
the first set, the junior rallied to win his individual match 3-6,
6-4, 6-3 and the celebration was on. Trinity became the first
school in Division III history to win the men’s and
women’s tennis championships in the same year as the Trinity
women knocked off the University of California-San Diego.
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WOMEN'S TENNIS
May 12,
1997
Senior Nao Kinoshita of Rhodes wins her second national title in
three years, taking the 1997 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis
Singles Championship with a straight sets victory of 6-4, 6-4 over
Jamie Levine of Skidmore (N.Y.) College. Kinoshita, a three-time
all-American, remains of the most decorated female student-athlete
in SCAC history. Kinoshita wins two individual national
championships with one second-place finish, a doubles national
championship and finishes with a 81-7 all-time singles record.
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MEN'S TRACK & FIELD
May 21-23,
2009
Led by Centre College sophomore Chrys Jones, SCAC
student-athletes record five all-America performances - a new
conference high - at the 2009 NCAA Division III Men's Track &
Field Championships at Marietta College. On the final day of the
event, Jones sets a new Don Drumm Stadium record with his winning
triple jump at the 2009 national championship. The individual
national title is the 19th all-time for a SCAC student-athlete and
third during the 2008-09 academic year. Jones jumps 50 feet, 3 1/4
inches to earn the national title in the event, the first-ever for
a Centre College student-athlete. He is the first male SCAC
student-athlete to win a national title at the NCAA Outdoor Track
and Field Championships since Rose-Hulman's Chris Trapp won
back-to-back-to-back javelin titles from 1984-1986. More
WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD
April 28-29,
2000
Sewanee-The University of the South senior Heather Stone becomes
the league's only three-time Female Athlete-of-the-Year selection
and posts the top individual point total in the history of the
conference meet (men's or women's) when she won six events and
totaled an incredible 62.5 points - outscoring five teams by
herself - at the 2000 SCAC Women's Track & Field Championships
held on the campus of Rhodes College. Stone posted individual
victories in the 400 meters, 800 meters, 1,500 meters, 3,000
meters, 10,000 meters and 400 meter hurdles. With the exception of
her finishing time in the 400 meters, each victory established a
new SCAC championship meet record for that particular event. Her
2000 championship meet times in the 1,500 and *3,000 meters remain
conference records. More
VOLLEYBALL
December 4-5,
1999
At the 1999 Volleyball Final Four at Juniata College,
Trinity University defeats Muskingum College 3-0 (16-14, 15-11,
15-1) in the semifinals to advance to the following day’s
national title game. The Tiger’s national championship dreams
end on Saturday, however, as top-ranked, undefeated and defending
national champion Central (Iowa) College beats Trinity in three
straight, 15-8, 16-14, 15-7. Trinity ends its season with a 38-3
mark and becomes just the second SCAC team in any sport to play for
a national championship (Trinity women’s tennis –
1997). Tiger head coach Julie Jenkins is later honored as the
American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III
Coach-of-the-Year. More