SCAD finishes 18th in NAIA Directors' Cup standings
This is the fifth consecutive season the Bees have finished in the top 20.
Michael MacEachern
Sports Information Director
6/22/2009 9:37:48 AM
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Savannah College of Art and Design athletics program finished in 18th position in the final 2008-09 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup NAIA standings.
Azusa Pacific University captured the Directors' Cup in the NAIA for the fifth consecutive season with 915 points - 141 more than second-place Concordia (Calif.) University (774).
SCAD finished with 475.50 points. The Bees, who had eight different teams ranked in their respective NAIA national rankings this past season, moved up from 43rd place after the winter season as they scored 295.50 points in six different spring sports. It is the fifth consecutive year that the Bees have finished the season in the top 20.
SCAD earned 70 points for its fifth-place finish at nationals in men's tennis, 53 points for women's golf as the finished in ninth place, 51 points for its 13th-place showing in women's golf, and 46.5 for men's golf as they finished 16th. The Bees, who had eight teams that competed at their respective national championship and two others that had individuals compete at theirs, also picked up points 50 points for baseball's appearance in the NAIA National Championship Opening Round and 25 more for softball advancing to their NAIA National Championship.
SCAD was one of nine The Sun Conference institutions that scored in the final standings. Embry-Riddle (Fla.) Aeronautical University finished in eighth place with 625.25 points followed by Northwood (Fla.) University in 47th place with 258.00. Webber International University finished in 105th place with 112.00 points followed by the University of South Carolina Beaufort (140th, 69.00), Warner University (142nd, 65.50), Florida Memorial University (153rd, 51.50), Edward Waters College (tie 164th, 33.50) and St. Thomas (Fla.) University (tie 166th, 110).
The Learfield Sports Directors' Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and USA Today. Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in up to 12 sports - six women's and six men's.