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.

Past Trophy Winners


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 25, 2005
Contact: Dwayne Hanberry, SCAC Assistant Commissioner, Communications

Trinity wins 2004-05 President's Trophy
Tiger program has won 11 of last 12 all-sports titles
SUWANEE, Ga. - After winning four of the eight spring sports championships contested at this weekend's 2005 Spring Sports Festival in Conway, Ark., Trinity University clinched the 2004-05 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference President's Trophy. The trophy represents Trinity's 11th all-sports title in the last 12 years and fourth in a row.

A bell, donated by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, was adopted as the conference's President's Trophy and serves as the symbol for the conference. This bell 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 number of points towards the all-sports trophy.

Trinity accumulated the largest point total in the history of the award (855 points), and its margin of victory over second-place DePauw University (110 points) is the third largest margin.

Trinity won championships in men's golf, men's and women's tennis and softball over the weekend and finished second in baseball, women's golf and men's and women's track and field. The Tigers, who had earlier in the season taken team titles in men's and women's soccer, football, men's and women's basketball, volleyball and women's swimming, won 11 of the 18 trophy-point conference sports this season. The 11 team titles in one academic season also represents a new league high.

DePauw picked up three team titles this weekend, with victories in men's and women's track and women's golf. With those three championships, DePauw finishes with 745 total points. The DU Tigers also won championships this year in men's and women's cross country and men's swimming.

The only championship not won by either Trinity or DePauw this season was baseball, which Millsaps College earned this weekend in Conway. The baseball title is the seventh overall for the Majors' program and second in three years.

As for the rest of the President's Trophy standings, following Trinity and DePauw is Rhodes College with 552.5 points. It is the second consecutive year that Rhodes has finished third and sixth time in the last seven years. Sewanee-University of the South slipped from third after the winter season to fourth in the final standings with 535 points. Sewanee has never finished worse than fourth in any President's Trophy race - one of only three schools (DePauw, Trinity) that make that claim.

Following in the final team standings is Centre College in fifth with 477.5 points - the program's second-consecutive fifth-place finish and eighth in the last nine years. Southwestern University finished sixth with 465 points, the seventh consecutive year the Pirates have occupied the No. 7 position in the final standings.

Coming in at seventh was Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with 407.5 points. The Engineers have finished seventh in every President's Trophy race since joining the league in 1998-99, but it did mark the first time that the women's program out-scored its men's.

Rounding out the standings is Millsaps College at eighth with 275 points, Hendrix College finished ninth with 265 points and Oglethorpe University completed the 2004-05 season in 10th with 237.5 points.
 


2004-05 SCAC PRESIDENT'S TROPHY FINAL STANDINGS
(Through the 2005 Spring Season)

1.

Trinity University 855
2.

DePauw University 745
3. Rhodes College 552.5
4. Sewanee-Univ. of the South 535
5. Centre College 477.5
6. Southwestern University 465
7.

Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. 407.5
8. Millsaps College 275
9. Hendrix College 265
10. Oglethorpe University 237.5


Points Scoring System
1st Place 50
2nd Place 45
3rd Place 40
4th Place 35
5th Place 30
6th Place 25
7th Place 20
8th Place 15
9th Place 10
10th Place 5


Men's Standings
1. Trinity University 420
2. DePauw Universtiy 360
3. Sewanee-University of the South 290
4. Rhodes College 262.5
5. Centre College 257.5
6. Southwestern University 235
7. Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology 192.5
T-8. Millsaps College 155
T-8. Oglethorpe University 155
10. Hendrix College 97.5


Women's Standings
1. Trinity University 435
2. DePauw University 385
3. Rhodes College 290
4. Sewanee-University of the South 245
5. Southwestern University 230
6. Centre College 220
7. Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology 215
8. Hendrix College 167.5
9. Millsaps College 120
10. Oglethorpe University 82.5

 

Men Soccer X-country Football Basketball Swim Baseball Golf Tennis Track Total
Centre 27.5 45 30 37.5 30 17.5 10 25 35 257.5
DePauw 27.5 50 45 22.5 50 35 35 45 50 360
Hendrix 10 15 NT 5 25 7.5 5 20 10 97.5
Millsaps 5 10 37.5 22.5 NT 50 20 10 NT 155
Oglethorpe 45 5 NT 22.5 NT 7.5 40 15 20 155
Rhodes 37.5 35 37.5 10 20 17.5 45 35 25 262.5
Rose-Hulman 15 20 22.5 22.5 35 27.5 15 5 30 192.5
Sewanee 20 25 22.5 45 45 27.5 25 40 40 290
Southwestern 37.5 30 NT 37.5 15 40 30 30 15 235
Trinity 50 40 50 50 40 45 50 50 45 420

Women Soccer X-country Volleyball Basketball Swim Golf Softball Tennis Track Total
Centre 20 35 27.5 7.5 30 NT 45 20 35 220
DePauw 37.5 50 35 45 45 50 27.5 45 50 385
Hendrix 15 10 15 22.5 25 NT 40 25 15 167.5
Millsaps 5 20 27.5 22.5 NT NT 35 10 NT 120
Oglethorpe 10 5 5 7.5 NT 30 NT 5 20 82.5
Rhodes 25 40 40 37.5 20 35 17.5 35 40 290
Rose-Hulman 30 15 20 22.5 35 25 27.5 15 25 215
Sewanee 45 25 10 37.5 40 NT 17.5 40 30 245
Southwestern 37.5 30 45 22.5 15 40 NT 30 10 230
Trinity 50 45 50 50 50 45 50 50 45 435