April
3, 2009
CLEVELAND,
OHIO . . . After the completion of all fall and winter
NCAA Division III championships, four Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (IIAC) institutions are ranked in the top 100 of
the Division III Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Standings.
Wartburg
College leads all IIAC institutions in the standings with 375.00
points, which is good for 18th place. After scoring 175 points
during the fall sports season, the Knights scored points during
the winter sports season with national titles in wrestling and
women's indoor track & field.
Loras
College follows Wartburg in 40th place with 224.00 points. Other
IIAC institutions in the top 100 include Coe College (72nd place,
143.00 points) and Luther College (t-76th place, 138.00 points).
Cornell College (103rd place, 107.00 points), Simpson College
(142nd place, 81.00 points), Buena Vista University (t-150th
place, 75.00 points), University of Dubuque (t-169th place,
66.00 points), and Central College (t-265th place, 23.00 points)
also appear in the standings.
Overall,
Amherst (Mass.) is in first place of the standings with 679
points. Williams (Mass.) is in second, followed by UW-Stevens
Point, Washington Univ.-St. Louis, and UW-La Crosse rounding
out the top five.
In
addition to Wartburg's titles in wrestling and women's indoor
track & field, institutions
capturing winter NCAA Division III Championships include: UW-La
Crosse and UW-Oshkosh (Men's Indoor Track & Field), George
Fox (Women's Basketball), Washington Univ.-St. Louis (Men's
Basketball), Kenyon (Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving),
Amherst (Women's Ice Hockey), and Neumann (Men's Ice Hockey).
The
Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup was developed as a joint
effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors
of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today. Points are awarded based
on each institution's finish in up to 18 sports -- nine women’s
and nine men’s.
Please
note, standings published midseason are unofficial. Official
standings will be published upon the completion of the spring
season. Complete standings and the scoring structure can be
found on NACDA’s website at www.nacda.com.
NACDA
Director's Cup Release
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