Wingate Leads 2024-25 SAC Echols Athletic Excellence Award Standings After Fall Season

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) -- Following the completion of the 2024-25 South Atlantic Conference fall sports seasons, the Wingate Bulldogs lead the SAC Echols Athletic Excellence Award Standings. The Bulldogs won four championships to garner 604 points as they took home the League titles in men's and women's cross country, women's soccer, and volleyball.

Lenoir-Rhyne sits in second place with 435.5 points led by a second-place finish by the volleyball team and a second-place tie by women's soccer.

Anderson is in third place with 408.83 points as the Trojans are paced by a runner-up finish in men's cross country.

Lincoln Memorial sits in fourth place with 377, narrowly ahead of Limestone who has 374.83 points. The Saints claimed a share of the regular season men's soccer championship.

Catawba sits in sixth place with 348.33 points, just a fraction of a point ahead of seventh place Carson-Newman at 348 points.

Mars Hill is in the number eight spot with 336 points while Newberry is in ninth with 281.33 total points.

Emory & Henry is tenth with Coker, Tusculum and UVA Wise rounding out the final standings.

The Echols Athletic Excellence Award is presented annually to the member athletic department that earns the highest point total based on cumulative final standings in each of the Conference's 23 sports.  Regular season finish is used in the sports of men's and women's soccer, volleyball, football, field hockey, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's lacrosse, baseball and softball, while SAC Championship results are used for men's and women's cross country, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's golf, and men's and women's indoor and outdoor track. 

In the Echols Athletic Excellence Award formula, the champion will always receive 100 points and last place will receive 10 points if 10 or more schools sponsor that championship sport.   In sports with less than 10 participants, the total number of points varies based on the number of sponsoring schools. The points earned for all other place finishes will vary based on the number of schools that sponsor that particular sport.   

2024-25 Echols Cup Fall Standings