CORVALLIS, Ore. – The final NAIA Learfield Directors’ Cup fall standings were released Thursday, with College of Idaho leading the Cascade Collegiate Conference.
Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in the NAIA fall championships of men’s and women’s cross country, football, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball.
The Coyotes sit in seventh place overall with 214.00 total points after two top-10 finishes and one just outside the top-10. C of I took third as a team in women’s cross country, seventh in men’s cross country and 11
th in women’s soccer.
Not far behind the Coyotes is Southern Oregon in 12
th place with 188.00 points. The Raiders grabbed points with ninth-place finishes in both men’s and women’s cross country, along with 17
th place in women’s volleyball.
Three other CCC schools sit in the top-50, with Eastern Oregon University grabbing 27
th with 147.50 points after finishing third in women’s volleyball, Corban University sitting in 40
th place after taking second in women’s volleyball, and Lewis-Clark State College three spots behind in 43
rd after earning points in men’s and women’s cross country.
Oregon Tech (55
th, 78.00 points), Warner Pacific University (69
th, 57.00 points), and Northwest University (88
th, 25.00 points) round out the remaining CCC full member institutions.
The LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and
USA Today. The winter standings will begin distribution on Thursday, March 30.
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.directorscup.org. In addition, please visit
www.thedirectorscup.com and follow on Twitter
@ldirectorscup.
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