Mary Washington Has A 19-Point Lead In 2012-13 Richard C. Cook All-Sports Award Race
YORK, Pa. — With the help of three championships during
the winter season added on to a pair of titles in the fall season,
Mary Washington has extended its lead in the chase for the 2012-13
Capital Athletic Conference Richard C. Cook All-Sports Award to 19
points heading into the spring season.
UMW, trying to snap a seven-year drought in winning the CAC’s
all-sports trophy, added championships in men’s swimming,
women’s swimming and women’s indoor track and field in
the winter season. Additionally, the women’s basketball and
men’s indoor track & field teams both finished second,
helping the Eagles gain 51 of 60 possible points during the winter
season.
The 51 points in the winter, coupled with the 46.50 points gained
in the fall season when the Eagles’ women’s cross
country and field hockey teams won CAC championships, give Mary
Washington 97.50 points heading into the spring campaign.
That’s a 19-point lead over second-place Salisbury (78.50),
the seven-time defending CAC all-sports award champion.
Salisbury won the men’s indoor track & field crown,
finished second in women’s indoor track & field and had
strong seasons in both men’s and women’s basketball to
hold on to second place in the standing - eight points ahead of
third-place York (70.00). The Sea Gulls, who won the volleyball
title in the fall season, have finished among the top three teams
in the CAC in 10 of 12 sports this year.
Following York in the all-sports standings are St. Mary’s
(53.00), Frostburg State (40.00), Marymount (36.50) and Wesley
(24.00). St. Mary’s took a solid hold on fourth place in the
overall standings by winning the men’s basketball crown for
the fourth time in the last six years and placing second in both
men’s and women’s swimming. Marymount closed the gap
with the teams above in the standings by winning the women’s
basketball championship.
Mary Washington is also leading the pack in both the Men’s
Commissioners Award and Women’s Commissioners Award
standings. The Eagles have a three-point lead in the men’s
sports standings and a 15.5-point lead in the women’s sports
standings.
Defending Men’s Commissioners Award co-champion York held the
lead after the fall season based on men’s cross country and
men’s soccer championships, but UMW’s strong winter
gave the Eagles a three-point lead heading into the spring season.
Salisbury won all three crowns last year, although the Gulls shared
the Men’s Commissioners Award title with York. It was
York’s third-straight championship in the men’s sports
standings.
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2012-13 RICHARD C. COOK ALL-SPORTS AWARD (through 12 of 21 sports):
1. Mary Washington 97.50; 2. Salisbury 78.50; 3. York 70.00; 4. St.
Mary’s 53.50; 5. Frostburg State 40.00; 6. Marymount 36.50;
7. Wesley 24.00
2012-13 MEN’S COMMISSIONERS AWARD (fthrough 5 of 10
men’s sports): 1. Mary Washington 37.00; 2. York 33.50, 3.
Salisbury 33.50; 4. St. Mary’s 24.50; 5. Frostburg State
17.00; 6. Wesley 11.00; 7. Marymount 9.50
2012-13 WOMEN’S COMMISSIONERS AWARD (through 7 of 11
women’s sports): 1. Mary Washington 60.50; 2. Salisbury
45.00; 3. York 36.50; 4. St. Mary’s 29.00; 5. Marymount
27.00; 6. Frostburg State 23.00; 7. Wesley 13.00
