DEPAUW WINS SIXTH CONSECUTIVE SCAC PRESIDENTS TROPHY
SUWANEE, Ga. - With spring championships
in softball, women's tennis and women's golf - in addition to
second-place finishes in men's tennis and women's track and field -
DePauw University earned a comfortable 105-point victory in the
race for the 2010-11 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
President's Trophy. In their final year in the SCAC, the Tigers
will leave having won six consecutive all-sports
trophies.
DePauw finished with 797.5 points, followed by Trinity University
with 692.5 points, Centre College with 655 points and Rhodes
College with 590 points - the third consecutive year those four
have finished in that order atop the standings.
After 13 years as a member of the SCAC, DePauw exits the conference
with six consecutive and seven total all-sports trophies.
Trinity, which won championships this past weekend in baseball and
men's tennis, finished second in the all-sports trophy race for the
sixth consecutive year. Since 1993-94, Trinity has finished first
(11 times) or second (seven times) every year.
Centre slipped from a tie for second in the standings after
the winter season to a third place finish in the final
standings. The Colonels won their first-ever men's track and
field championship this past weekend.
Rhodes College, with a spring championship in women's track and
field, finished in fourth place.
Rounding out the standings, Southwestern improved one place from
the winter and finished in fifth place in the finals standings with
415 points while Colorado College slipped a place to finish sixth
in the final standings with 370 points.
Two more schools swapped places in the final standings from where
they stood after the completion of the winter sports season.
Sewanee-The University of the South improved to seventh place
with a final total of 320 points while
Hendrix College slipped to eighth and finished with 305
points.
Sitting in 10th place through the winter season, Oglethorpe
University improved to ninth place in the final standings,
finishing with 297.5 points. Millsaps College moved up
one slot to 10th to finish and finished with 257.5 points.
Austin College fell from ninth to finish 11th in the Presidents
Trophy final standings with 175 points.
Birmingham-Southern College, in its last year as a provisional
Division III member of both the SCAC and the NCAA, will be eligible
for President's Trophy points beginning with the 2011-12 academic
year.
Per an earlier vote by the SCAC Presidents Council, men's and
women's lacrosse results will not count toward the all-sports
trophy race until the 2011-12 academic year.
2010-11 SCAC President's Trophy - Final
Standings
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SCAC PRESIDENT'S TROPHY QUICK
FACTS
The symbol of conference supremacy is the 300-pound railroad bell
which was donated to the SCAC by the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
This bell, the "President's Trophy", is a rotating award and goes
to the school with the best overall sports record for the year.
The bell has been a part of the conference since its inception in
1962. In fact, the first conference
logo, when the league was known as the College Athletic
Conference, has the image of the bell incorporated into it.
The President's Trophy is displayed for one year on the campus of
the school with the combined men's and women's athletics program
that accumulates the highest points total in the all-sports
race.
The system used for distributing President's Trophy
points was tweaked beginning with the 2010-11 academic year.
Points will now be awarded from the bottom up, instead of the
top down as had been the case. A last place finish in any
particular sport is worth 5 points with points being
awarded in five point increments for each place, up to first
place.
Birmingham-Southern is a provisional member of the SCAC and will
not be eligible for conference championships, and
therefore all-sports trophy points, until the
2011-2012 season. |