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May 16, 2007 SIUE Wins 2006-07 All-Sports Trophy, Commissioner’s Cup INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Intercollegiate Athletics has won both the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) All-Sports Trophy and the Commissioner’s Cup for the 2006-07 season, both prestigious awards. In announcing the awards today, GLVC officials said the Cougars won the All-Sports Trophy with 141.5 points, the highest total points recorded in a single season since the award was conceived more than 25 years ago. SIUE took the trophy from two-time defending All-Sports winner Northern Kentucky. The GLVC annually awards the All-Sports Trophy to the member institution with the best all-around performance in the league’s 17 sponsored sports. The Commissioner’s Cup is awarded to the program that produces the overall best finish in the league’s seven “core” sports. SIUE posted top five finishes in six of the seven sports that count in the Commissioner’s Cup standings, including conference titles in men’s soccer and softball. Also considered are volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball. The Cougars garnered 78.5 points, outdistancing second-place finisher Northern Kentucky University by nine points. SIUE was given approval earlier this year to apply for reclassification to NCAA Division I for all sports in the SIUE program. The University is currently transitioning to NCAA Division I status. “SIUE student-athletes are at the pinnacle of athletics success at the Division II level,” said Brad Hewitt, director of Cougar Athletics. “Winning both the GLVC All-Sports Trophy and the Commissioner’s Cup is an amazing accomplishment and testament to the University’s decision to enter the Division I arena,” Hewitt said. “We are positioned to compete at the highest level, and I commend our incredible coaching staff and dedicated student-athletes on this achievement.” SIUE Intercollegiate Athletics claimed six Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships during the year, twice as many as Drury, its next closest competitor. The Cougars won titles in men’s soccer, softball, men’s indoor track and field, women’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field and women’s outdoor track and field. SIUE also posted strong finishes in baseball, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s tennis and volleyball. The Cougars won the All-Sports Trophy once previously in the 1997-98 season, having first joined the GLVC in 1994. SIUE has been among the top four in the All-Sports Trophy scoring since joining the league. This is the first time the Cougars have won the coveted Commissioner’s Cup. The Cougars finished fourth overall nationally during the 2005-06 season among the NCAA Division II institutions in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup. During the 2006-07 season SIUE is currently among the top 16 nationally heading into the spring sports national championships. SIUE has won 16 national championships in its history, including two in men’s soccer (1972, 1979), seven in men’s tennis (1978 through 1984), three in wrestling (1984-85-86) and four in women’s tennis (1986-87-88-89). The 1979 men’s soccer team won the championship as a Division I program. The 2006-07 GLVC All-Sports Trophy are listed below: 1. SIU Edwardsville 141.50 -siue cougars- |