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Tar Heels Finish Seventh in Directors' Cup Standings
Posted on July 1, 2010Carolina has finished seventh nationally in this year’s Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, which measures a school’s postseason success in all varsity sports. It was the 15th time that the Tar Heels have had a top 10 finish.
The award, which has gone by different names over its 17-year history, is managed by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics. Points are awarded to each school for its 10 highest men’s and 10 highest women’s finishes in NCAA competition.
It was the eighth top 10 finish by the Tar Heels in the past nine years. By comparison, the ACC’s 11 other schools have a total of eight top 10 finishes in Directors’ Cup history.
Stanford won for the 16th straight year, earning 1508.5 points. Florida was second with 1310.25, followed by Virginia, UCLA, Florida State, Texas A&M, Carolina, Ohio State, California and Duke.
The 2009-10 season marks the first time that four ACC schools finished in the top 10 and the third time that the Tar Heels were not the highest finishing ACC school. No other conference had more than three schools finish in the top 10.
Six Tar Heel teams finished in the top five nationally, including field hockey and women’s soccer, which both won NCAA championships. Men’s soccer, women’s lacrosse and women’s tennis each finished third, and men’s lacrosse was fifth. Men’s swimming and diving (15th), men’s indoor track and field (20th) and women’s swimming and diving (20th) each placed in the top 20.
The Tar Heels are the only school other than Stanford to win the Directors’ Cup. Carolina won the inaugural trophy in 1994 and has averaged a sixth-place finish.
More online…
- Heels Finish Second in Directors’ Cup Standings, Lead ACC
News report from June 2009 - Tar Heels Drop in Directors’ Cup Standings, Still Lead ACC
News report from June 2008 - Unbeaten and Champion – the Fifth for Field Hockey
News report from Nov. 29, 2007 - Carolina Third Nationally In All-Sport Competition
News report from June 30, 2007
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