Pacific Lutheran Comes Back to Win All-Sports Trophy
SPOKANE, WA - Pacific Lutheran only won one
Northwest Conference title in the spring, but the Lutes used four
NWC runner-up finishes to vault to the top of the final 2001-02
McIlroy-Lewis All-Sports Trophy standings. The Lutes finished with
232 points, just ahead of Tacoma rival Puget Sound, which finished
with 227 points.
Pacific Lutheran won the 2002 softball title, the
Lutes' only spring championship and the third conference title for
PLU in 2001-02. Football (tie) and women's basketball were the
others. But PLU finished second in the spring in men's tennis,
women's track & field, and men's and women's golf. The Lutes
had entered the spring season in fourth place in the standings.
Puget Sound finished second, its highest place
ever. The Loggers won a conference title in men's golf and finished
second in softball. UPS led after the fall sports and was second
behind Whitworth in the winter.
2001 winner Linfield moved up strongly from fifth
place to third place with 225 points. The Wildcats swept conference
titles in men's and women's tennis and added a title in women's
golf. Linfield also finished second in men's track.
Winter leader Whitworth and Willamette tied for
fourth place with 213 points. Willamette swept the men's and
women's track and field titles. Whitworth did not win a spring
title and also did not score any points in golf, a sport the school
does not sponsor.
The other spring conference title went to George
Fox, in baseball.
Lewis & Clark College finished sixth with 140
points, followed by Whitman and George Fox (116 each), and Pacific
(90).
Pacific Lutheran has won 14 of the 16 All-Sports
trophies since it began to be awarded in 1986. The only other
winners have been Willamette in 1994 and Linfield last year.
The Northwest Conference All-Sports Trophy
recognizes athletic excellence among Northwest Conference
institutions across all fields of competition. It is named in honor
of John Lewis, the baseball coach (1947-72), basketball coach
(1947-67) and athletics director (1952-72) at Willamette
University; and Jane McIlroy, Linfield College's women's athletics
director and physical education professor from 1950-82 who also
coached field hockey (1952-81), basketball, volleyball, softball
and tennis.
| School
| wxc
| mxc
| wsoc
| msoc
| vb
| fb
| wsw
| msw
| wbb
| mbb
| bb
| sb
| wtn
| mtn
| wg
| mg
| wtf
| mtf
| total
|
| Pacific Lutheran
| 14
| 12
| 6
| 8
| 11
| 16
| 12
| 12
| 18
| 9
| 10
| 18
| 8
| 16
| 16
| 16
| 16
| 14
| 232
|
| Puget Sound
| 18
| 14
| 16
| 12
| 17
| 8
| 18
| 18
| 13
| 9
| 2
| 16
| 12
| 12
| 8
| 18
| 10
| 6
| 227
|
| Linfield
| 2
| 2
| 14
| 15
| 11
| 16
| 14
| 15
| 9
| 12
| 12
| 14
| 18
| 18
| 18
| 12
| 8
| 16
| 225
|
| Whitworth
| 12
| 10
| 11
| 18
| 17
| 16
| 16
| 16
| 16
| 15
| 16
| 4
| 14
| 6
| --
| --
| 14
| 12
| 213
|
| Willamette
| 16
| 18
| 18
| 10
| 6
| 12
| 10
| 10
| 6
| 15
| 8
| 12
| 4
| 8
| 10
| 14
| 18
| 18
| 213
|
| Lewis & Clark
| 10
| 16
| --
| --
| 2
| 10
| 6
| 6
| 2
| 18
| 4
| 10
| 10
| 10
| 14
| 8
| 6
| 8
| 140
|
| Whitman
| 8
| 8
| 11
| 4
| 8
| --
| 8
| 8
| 4
| 5
| 6
| --
| 16
| 14
| 12
| --
| 2
| 2
| 116
|
| George Fox
| 6
| 4
| 4
| 15
| 14
| --
| --
| --
| 13
| 2
| 18
| 8
| 6
| 4
| --
| --
| 12
| 10
| 116
|
| Pacific
| 4
| 6
| 8
| 6
| 4
| --
| --
| --
| 9
| 5
| 14
| 6
| 2
| 2
| 6
| 10
| 4
| 4
| 90
|
key: wxc = women's cross country; mxc = men's cross-country;
wsoc = women's soccer; msoc = men's soccer; vb = volleyball; fb =
football; wsw = women's swimming; msw = men's swimming; wbb =
women's basketball; mbb = men's basketball; bb = baseball; sb =
softball; wtn = women's tennis; mtn = men's tennis; wg = women's
golf; mg = men's golf; wtf = women's track & field; mtf = men's
track & field.
2002 NWC Sport Winners: Puget Sound, 5 (women's
cross-country, volleyball (tie), women's swimming, men's swimming,
men's golf); Linfield, 4 (football (tie), women's tennis, men's
tennis, women's golf); Willamette, 4 (men's cross-country, women's
soccer, women's track & field, men's track & field);
Whitworth, 3 (men's soccer, volleyball (tie), football (tie);
Pacific Lutheran, 3 (football (tie), women's basketball, softball);
Lewis & Clark, 1 (men's basketball); George Fox, 1 (baseball).
| Past McElroy-Lewis Trophy Winners
|
| 2001 - Linfield
| 2000 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1999 - Pacific Lutheran
|
| 1998 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1997 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1996 - Pacific Lutheran
|
| 1995 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1994 - Willamette
| 1993 - Pacific Lutheran
|
| 1992 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1991 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1990 - Pacific Lutheran
|
| 1989 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1988 - Pacific Lutheran
| 1987 - Pacific Lutheran
|
| 1986 - Pacific Lutheran
|