Missouri S&T’s scoring performances at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships have allowed the university’s athletics program to finish in the top one-third of Division II in the final Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings for the 2008-09 season.
The S&T track teams had all of its competitors score at the national meet last month, resulting in 93.5 points to be added to the school’s point total for the season. Missouri S&T finished with 233.5 points for the year, buoyed by the swimming team’s third place showing at its national meet in March.
As a result, the final score put Missouri S&T in 91st place in the final standings, putting it among the top 31 percent of the 291 institutions competing at the NCAA Division II level.
Missouri S&T ranked sixth among the teams from the Great Lakes Valley Conference this season. Indianapolis had the highest ranking among the GLVC schools as it came in fifth place, while Northern Kentucky was 17th and Drury finished in 27th place.
Southern Indiana and Wisconsin-Parkside came in 53rd and 84th place, respectively, just ahead of S&T’s 91st place spot.
Six other GLVC schools had spots in the rankings, with Lewis coming in 98th place, Rockhurst in 104th, Quincy in 165th, Bellarmine in 169th and Kentucky Wesleyan and Missouri-St. Louis tying for 218th place. Saint Joseph’s did not have a team reach or score in an NCAA national championships competition in the recent year.
Grand Valley State won the Learfield Director’s Cup with a total of 1,014.5 points, followed by Minnesota State, Central Missouri, Abilene Christian and Indianapolis.