TRINITY JUMPS OUT TO EARLY LEAD IN RACE FOR 2024-25 SCAC PRESIDENTS' TROPHY

SUWANEE, Ga. -- Trinity University picked up three of the league's six contested fall championships and has established an early lead in the race for the 2024-25 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Presidents' Trophy. Fall Results

Trinity swept both soccer titles in Houston, with the men earning their first tournament title since 2018 and 22nd overall while the championship on the women's side represented the 28th for the program, equaling the number won by Trinity men's tennis and tying for the most by any one program in SCAC history. The following weekend, Trinity was crowned SCAC championships in volleyball for a record 22nd time. The TU Tigers also earned runner-up finishes in both men's and women's cross country at those respective championships.

At the completion of fall championship play, the TU Tigers have accumulated 265 total points in the all-sports standings and sit 45 points clear of Southwestern University, who has 220 points. The Pirates posted a runner-up finish at volleyball, a third place finish in men's cross country and tied for third at both the men's and women's soccer tournament.

Texas Lutheran University, which earned a share of the conference football title, sits alone in third place with 192.5 points. The Bulldogs also finished as runner up at the women's soccer tournament.

Coming in fourth after the fall season is University of St. Thomas, who was runner-up at the men's soccer tournament and tied for third place at the SCAC volleyball championship, the program's best-ever finish at that event since joining the conference prior to the 2019 season.

Colorado College is in fifth place in the team standings as the Tigers earned their sixth and fourth straight conference championships, respectively, in men's and women's cross country to lead off the fall postseason. McMurry University, who also earned a share of the league's football title, is in sixth place with 170 points.

Rounding out the current Presidents' Trophy standings, Concordia University (Texas) is seventh with 122.5 points, Austin College sits in eighth with 112.5 points, Schreiner University is ninth with 95 points, University of Dallas is 10th with 70 points and Centenary College and University of the Ozarks are tied for 11th with 57.5 points.

Trinity has won the last 13 SCAC Presidents' Trophies and has claimed the bell signifying conference supremacy 24 times overall. Both of those marks (consecutive and all-time wins) represent the current record in a league that has been recognizing an all-sports champion every year since 1962. 

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 "Presidents' 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 Presidents' 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 Presidents' Trophy points awards those points based off an institution's finish at the conference championship event. Points are awarded from the bottom up in increments of five for each place, with a last place finish in any officially recognized conference sport worth five points. A member institution must declare and sponsor the sport as varsity status with the NCAA to participate and score in any conference championship.

SCAC Presidents' Trophy - Archived Year-by-Year Results