The Division I-AAA Athletic Administrators Affiliation (DI-AAA ADA) introduced Pepperdine College because the recipient of this 12 months’s All-Sports activities Trophy, recognizing the Pepperdine Waves’ total success all through the final educational 12 months and its seasons. That is the fourth time in division historical past that Pepperdine has acquired the first-place All-Sports activities Trophy.
“This award honors the exceptional achievements and dedication of our superb student-athletes, our unbelievable coaches, and our gifted workers,” stated Steve Potts, director of Athletics at Pepperdine. “We’re very proud and grateful to obtain this award because it acknowledges the general power and depth of our athletic program. To have so a lot of our groups compete at NCAA Championships or NCAA Regional occasions is really excellent.”
The Waves earned factors in six sports activities—males’s golf who completed as NCAA semifinalists; girls’s tennis who made it to the NCAA quarterfinals; and Girls’s soccer, males’s tennis, girls’s volleyball, and ladies’s golf who all made their technique to NCAA rounds this 12 months. Within the ultimate Learfield Administrators’ Cup standings, the Waves got here in 62nd place. Pepperdine ranked second amongst WCC colleges with 375 whole factors, ending solely behind Brigham Younger College. Becoming a member of Pepperdine to spherical out the highest bids for the All-Sports activities Trophy had been Windfall Faculty in second place and Gonzaga College in third.
“On behalf of I-AAA ADA, I want to congratulate the Pepperdine Waves for his or her All-Sports activities championship this 12 months,” stated Simon Grey, DI-AAA ADA president and present director of athletics at Niagara College. “After ending second final 12 months, Pepperdine continued its run of athletics excellence and topped a listing of extremely profitable athletic applications on this complete metric.”
Division I-AAA consists of the roughly 100 NCAA Division I colleges that don’t sponsor soccer. Beforehand, the Division I-AAA All-Sports activities Trophy was awarded solely on the idea of the Learfield Administrators’ Cup standings. Starting in 2021, solely the sports activities acknowledged by the DI-AAA ADA had been included within the scoring. These sports activities embrace baseball, basketball, cross nation, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, observe, and ladies’s volleyball.
To study extra about Pepperdine Athletic applications, go to the Pepperdine Waves website.
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