IUP Tops Dixon Trophy Standings
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After completion of the fall championships Indiana (Pa.) University leads all Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference schools in an effort to claim the Dixon Trophy for the 2012-13 season. The trophy is awarded at the end of each academic year to the league’s most successful program based on conference playoff and/or regular-season finish.
For 2012-13 the league has adopted a new scoring format to calculate the Dixon Trophy standings. In previous years only an institution’s top 12 finishes – six men’s and six women’s – were used to calculate a point total. Beginning this season the standings will be based on an average score for every PSAC Championship sport that an institution sponsors. The point values for each sport will remain the same; 16 points to each conference champion and descending point values for respective placement. The second- through last-place values vary depending on the number of teams that sponsor the sport.
IUP has generated an average score of 11.79 with participation in six of the league’s nine fall championship sports. Shippensburg is in second place with an 11.26 average and California third with 11.19. Edinboro (11.00) and Slippery Rock (10.71) round out the top five.
The Crimson Hawks earned double digit totals in all three of their men’s sports, which included championships in football and golf. They also received strong efforts with a third-place showing in women’s cross country and a semifinal appearance in field hockey.
Shippensburg, which has won the Dixon Trophy a PSAC-best seven times, won the women’s cross country title and finished second in football. The Raiders also earned third place points in field hockey and a share of third for volleyball.
On the women’s side, California earned a league title in golf, a runner-up finish in soccer and a tie for third in volleyball. The Vulcan men placed second in golf and finished third in the Western Division in football.
Edinboro primarily bolstered its status with respective first- and second-place efforts in men’s and women’s cross country, and a third place in women’s soccer. Slippery Rock had five sports garner double-digit totals, including a PSAC crown in women’s soccer and second-place showing in men’s soccer.
Now in its 18th year of existence, the award is named in honor of F. Eugene Dixon, Jr., former chairman of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s Board of Governors. Seven different institutions have won the Dixon Trophy. After Shippensburg, Lock Haven and defending champion Bloomsburg have three titles apiece. California, Kutztown, Slippery Rock and Millersville have each won one Dixon Trophy.
Seven PSAC Championships will be contested in the 2012-13 winter season: men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's indoor track & field and wrestling. The next update of the Dixon Trophy standings will be released following the basketball championships in early March.