Puget Sound Wins First All-Sports Trophy
SPOKANE, Wash. - The University of Puget Sound held
off defending champion Whitworth College and hard-charging Linfield
College to win the Northwest Conference's McIlroy-Lewis All-Sports
Trophy for the first time in school history. UPS has been a member
of the NWC since the fall of 1996. The Loggers had finished as high
as second place in the trophy standings as recently as 2003-04.
UPS used runner-up finishes in women's golf and
men's track and field, as well as third place finishes in baseball
and women's tennis to finish with 94 points this spring and a
year-long total of 245. The Loggers won a total of three NWC titles
this year.
Whitworth, which won a conference title in men's
golf and added a second place finish in softball this spring, was
only three points behind the Loggers with 242 points. The Pirates
had trailed by nine points after the winter sports season.
Whitworth won four conference titles in 2005-06.
Linfield had the stongest spring of any NWC school,
winning NWC titles in softball and women's tennis, while finishing
second in baseball, men's golf and women's track and field. The
Wildcats scored more than half (124) of their 234 total points in
the spring season.
Willamette, which swept the NWC track and field
titles for the fifth straight season, finished fourth with 199
points. Willamette also ended up with four NWC titles this school
year.
The other spring NWC championships went to George
Fox in baseball (the Bruins' fifth straight) and Pacific in women's
golf (the Boxers' third in a row). PLU won the men's tennis title.
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
|
| Puget Sound
| 8
| 16
| 18
| 14
| 15
| 12
| 18
| 16
| 16
| 18
| 14
| 8
| 14
| 10
| 16
| 8
| 8
| 16
| 245
|
| Whitworth
| 14
| 14
| 10
| 18
| 18
| 14
| 14
| 18
| 7
| 15
| 10
| 16
| 12
| 12
| 6
| 18
| 14
| 10
| 242
|
| Linfield
| 12
| 12
| 4
| 16
| 15
| 18
| 10
| 14
| 7
| 2
| 16
| 18
| 18
| 14
| 14
| 16
| 16
| 12
| 234
|
| Willamette
| 18
| 18
| 16
| 8
| 2
| 16
| 6
| 6
| 2
| 15
| 6
| 12
| 8
| 8
| 12
| 10
| 18
| 18
| 199
|
| Pacific Lutheran
| 2
| 4
| 14
| 12
| 12
| 10
| 8
| 12
| 18
| 5
| 10
| 14
| 16
| 18
| 8
| 12
| 12
| 8
| 195
|
| Whitman
| 6
| 6
| 12
| 10
| 9
| --
| 12
| 10
| 13
| 8
| 2
| --
| 10
| 16
| 10
| 4
| --
| --
| 128
|
| Lewis & Clark
| 16
| 10
| 8
| --
| 6
| --
| 16
| 8
| 10
| 10
| 4
| 6
| 5
| 4
| --
| 6
| 4
| 6
| 119
|
| George Fox
| 10
| 8
| 2
| 5
| 9
| --
| --
| --
| 13
| 12
| 18
| 4
| 5
| 6
| --
| --
| 6
| 14
| 112
|
| Pacific
| 4
| --
| 6
| 5
| 4
| --
| 4
| 4
| 4
| 5
| 10
| 10
| 2
| 2
| 18
| 14
| 10
| 4
| 106
|
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.
2005-06 NWC Sport Winners:
Whitworth, 4 (Men's Soccer, Volleyball, Men's Swimming, Men's
Golf)
Willamette, 4 (Men's Cross-Country, Women's Cross-Country, Men's
Track and Field, Women's Track and Field)
Puget Sound, 3 (Women's Soccer, Women's Swimming, Men's
Basketball)
Linfield, 3 (Football, Softball, Women's Tennis)
Pacific Lutheran, 2 (Women's Basketball, Men's Tennis)
George Fox, 1 (Baseball)
Pacific, 1 (Women's Golf)