TRINITY EXTENDS LEAD IN RACE FOR 2024-25 SCAC PRESIDENTS' TROPHY

SUWANEE, Ga. -- Trinity University posted no worse than a runner-up finish at each of the league's four winter championships and has extended its lead in the race for the 2024-25 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Presidents' Trophy. Winter Results

Trinity won its 22nd consecutive women's swimming and diving championship and finished runner-up on the men's side at the 2025 conference meet. The 22 consecutive conference titles is the longest consecutive championship streak in SCAC history in any sport.

Two weekends later, both the Tigers' men's and women's basketball teams advanced to the championship round before falling in their respective title games on Sunday. 

The Trinity program earned conference championships in both men's and women's soccer as well as volleyball in the fall and both the Tiger men's and women's cross country teams finished runner-up at those respective championships.

At the completion of winter championship play, the TU Tigers have accumulated 450 total points in the all-sports standings and sit 100 points clear of Colorado College, who has 350 points. The Rocky Mountain Tigers catapulted from fifth to second place in the team standings, highlighted by the men's swimming and diving program earning its first-ever SCAC title. CC also posted a runner-up finish in women's swimming and diving and tied for third at both the men's and women's basketball tournament.

Southwestern University is in third with 302.5 points, followed by University of St. Thomas, who has 290 points. The Celts' men's basketball team earned their third conference tournametn title in the last five years last weekend.

McMurry University is in fifth with 277.5 points, followed closely by Texas Lutheran University with 267.5 points. The Bulldogs' women's basketball team took earned their first conference basketball championship since 2019 to account for the remaining winter sports title.

Rounding out the current Presidents' Trophy standings, Concordia University (Texas) is seventh with 190 points, Austin College sits in eighth with 187.5 points, Schreiner University is ninth with 160 points, University of Ozarks is 10th with 155 points and Centenary College and University of Dallas are tied for 11th with 117.5 points.

Trinity has won the last 13 SCAC Presidents' Trophies and has claimed the bell signifying conference supremacy 24 times overall. Both of those marks (consecutive and all-time wins) represent the current record in a league that has been recognizing an all-sports champion every year since 1962. 

SCAC PRESIDENT'S TROPHY QUICK FACTS

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 "Presidents' Trophy", is a rotating award and goes to the school with the best overall sports record for the year.

The bell has been a part of the conference since its inception in 1962. In fact, the first conference logo, when the league was known as the College Athletic Conference, has the image of the bell incorporated into it.

The Presidents' Trophy 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 points total in the all-sports race.

The system used for distributing Presidents' Trophy points awards those points based off an institution's finish at the conference championship event. Points are awarded from the bottom up in increments of five for each place, with a last place finish in any officially recognized conference sport worth five points. A member institution must declare and sponsor the sport as varsity status with the NCAA to participate and score in any conference championship.

SCAC Presidents' Trophy - Archived Year-by-Year Results