LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- For the second consecutive year, Trinity University's Derick Lawrence has been selected Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Coach-of-the-Year for both men's and women's cross country in exclusive voting by the head coaches in the conference.

Both Trinity squads repeated as SCAC champions at the 2013 conference championship meets held November 2 at the at Clyde Fant Course just outside the campus of Centenary College. Men's Results | Women's Results

The regionally-ranked Trinity men (seventh in the latest South/Southeast USTFCCCA rankings) scored 28 points – just a single point in front of Colorado College - at the 2013 championships. The previous closest men's race had been in 1997 when Rhodes College defeated Trinity by seven points (47-54).

The Trinity men had six runners finish in the Top 10 while Colorado College had four runners in the Top 10 including the top individual performance coming from junior Nick Hall. Hall repeated as SCAC Runner-of-the-Year for 2013 as he finished with a time of 25:44.1.

The 12th-ranked Trinity women's cross country team (ranked first in the South/Southeast USTFCCA rankings) totaled a perfect score of 15 points for the second consecutive year to easily outpoint second-place Colorado College at the 2013 conference cross country championship meet. The perfect score was the second in SCAC women’s cross country championship meet history and just the third on either side. Only the 2005 DePauw men, which Lawrence was also a member, had produced a score of 15 in SCAC championship meet history prior to the Tigers’ back-to-back perfect outings.

Maddie Murphy took medalist and 2013 SCAC Runner-of-the-Year honors with a top finish of 22:02.4. Teammate Vanessa Moreno (2012 SCAC Champion - 22:26.3) was second and Rosemary Steup (third - 22:41.5), Michelle Oberndorf (fourth - 22:47.1), and Jackie Newell (fifth - 23:06.1) completed the top five finishers on the 6K course.

Murphy was also Runner-of-the-Year in 2011.

Lawrence, who is in his second season at Trinity, is the first coach to sweep both COTY honors in back-to-back seasons since DePauw’s Kori Stoffregen pulled off the feat in 2005 and 2006.