LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference announces the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs as the winner of the SCAC Trending competition for the week beginning Monday, September 15 through Sunday, September 21.
The Bulldogs earned their second win after garnering 345 points among Twitter and Instagram, almost 100 more than the second place school, Austin College.
The ‘Roos of AC improved greatly over the past week, moving up one place to second with 260 points. The defending winner, the Southwestern Pirates, fell to third place with 201 points.
The Trinity Tigers made the biggest improvement, moving from last place to fifth, with 99 points. The Tigers previously had 20 points.
TLU saw the most growth on Twitter for the second week in a row, gaining 46 followers. The Bulldogs also inched closer to 1,000 followers on Instagram with a 22 follower increase from 911 to 933.
Points were tallied by hashtag usage on Twitter and Instagram, with one point awarded for every time the school's designated hashtag was used in a tweet and two points each time a it was used in an Instagram picture taken at a school-sponsored sporting event.
The winning school will nominate one or more student-athletes to gain access to the SCAC Instagram account, using it to post photos from sporting events over the weekend. The students that will be taking over the account will be announced Thursday morning and they will have access to @scac_sports on Instagram through Sunday evening.
