HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.—Excessive Level College earned the 2020-21 Massive South Convention Ladies’s All-Sports activities Trophy and completed second within the Sasser Cup standings, the convention introduced Tuesday night time (Could 25) at The Massive South’s annual Spring Conferences Awards Banquet, which was held at The Westin Resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C.
This the third time HPU has gained a Massive South finish of the yr trophy and the third consecutive yr the Panthers have claimed the Massive South Ladies’s All-Sports activities Trophy.
Excessive Level has gained 11 Massive South championships within the 2020-21 educational yr throughout each Males’s and ladies’s sports activities with the Panther ladies offering eight of them. ladies’s basketball gained the primary titles of the yr for HPU successful each the Massive South regular-season and match title. The Massive South Event championship win was the primary in ladies’s basketball program historical past. Jenson Edwards was named the Event MVP. The ladies’s basketball staff represented HPU within the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event for the primary time dealing with UCONN within the first spherical.
Ladies’s cross-country gained its fourth straight Massive South Cross-Nation because the Panthers positioned first with a staff rating of 29. Senior Famke Heinst gained her fourth straight particular person Massive South title which this yr routinely qualifies her for the 2021 NCAA Cross Nation Championship in Stillwater, Okay.
HPU Volleyball had its most profitable season but because the Panthers gained the Massive South and defeated UCF within the first spherical of the NCAA Event. It was simply the second Division I NCAA Event win in HPU Athletics historical past because the volleyball program joined the ladies’s lacrosse staff from 2017 as the one packages to win an NCAA Event contest. Moreover, it was the primary NCAA Event victory for any Massive South volleyball program.
Ladies’s Soccer gained its second straight Massive South common season title and attaining an undefeated common season. The Panthers completed with a file of 10-1 and acquired its highest rankings in program historical past being ranked as excessive as 24 within the media polls.
Ladies’s Lacrosse claimed the regular-season title and gained its fourth consecutive match title. It marked the fourth straight time the Panthers had gained each the regular-season title and the match championship. Abby Hormes was named the Event MVP.
Excessive Level ladies’s monitor and subject gained its first-ever Massive South Out of doors Monitor and Subject Championship with 279.5 staff factors. HPU completed the championship with ten particular person titles. Zoe Geis headlined the championship week for the Panther Ladies as she acquired the respect of the Massive South’s most useful athlete.
These eight ladies convention titles powered HPU to its third Massive South Ladies’s All-Sports activities Award with a complete of 11.29.
Excessive Level’s males’s groups completed third for the Massive South Males’s All-Sports activities Award. The Panthers gained three Massive South males’s convention championships in 2020-21.
Excessive Level Males’s Soccer ‘did the double’ and gained each the Massive South regular-season and match title. It was the first-ever Massive South Event Championship victory in program historical past. Nick Phipps was named the Event MVP. The Panthers made their second NCAA Event look and confronted Georgetown within the first spherical.
Males’s monitor and subject gained its first-ever Massive South Out of doors Monitor and Subject Championship with 265 staff factors. HPU completed the championship with eight particular person titles. Hocine Bouchrak was named the Massive South’s most excellent performer. His time of 8:49.11 within the steeplechase secured this honor as his time was at present the thirty second quickest within the nation the night time of the meet.
Excessive Level completed runner up for the Massive South Convention’s George F. “Buddy” Sasser Cup Trophy. The Sasser Cup Trophy is called for former Massive South Commissioner Buddy Sasser and is awarded to the Massive South member establishment with essentially the most profitable yr athletically, based mostly on a median factors system.
HPU gained 13 convention titles this yr throughout all sports activities and two conferences together with males’s lacrosse’s SoCon common season and match championships this season. HPU will end the yr having despatched 13 people to NCAA Regionals with Brandon Einstein qualifying for and enjoying within the NCAA Division I Males’s Golf Regional Event whereas Samantha Vodry was chosen to compete as a person within the 2021 NCAA Division I Ladies’s Golf Regional Event and have become the primary golfer in program historical past to compete within the NCAA Event together with her choice. 11 members of the HPU monitor and subject staff will compete on the NCAA East Preliminary Championships beginning tomorrow (Could twenty sixth).
Excessive Level additionally had two people characterize the Purple & White at NCAA Nationwide Championships in Sydney Horn on the NCAA Indoor Monitor and subject Nationwide Championships and Famke Heinst on the NCAA Cross Nation Nationwide Championships.
2020-21 Ladies’s All-Sports activities Award – Remaining
1. Excessive Level …………………………………….11.29
2. Campbell ……………………………………..10.13
3. Radford ………………………………………..7.22
4. USC Upstate ……………………………….. 7.18
5. Longwood ……………………………………..6.75
6. Gardner-Webb ……………………………….6.47
7. Winthrop ……………………………………….6.25
8. Charleston Southern……………………6.13
9. UNC Asheville ………………………………..5.75
10. Presbyterian Faculty……………………5.53
11. Hampton …………………………………. 2.00
2020-21 Sasser Cup Standings – present
1. Campbell ………………………………9.86-10.04
2. Excessive Level ……………………………………9.52
3. Radford …………………………………………7.68
4. USC Upstate ……………………………..7.02-7.21
5. Gardner-Webb …………………………6.68-6.82
6. Charleston Southern ………………………6.64
7. UNC Asheville ……………………………..6.54
8. Winthrop …………………………………..6.18
9. Longwood ………………………………..6.10
10. Presbyterian Faculty…………..5.71-5.89
11. Hampton …………………………………..3.63
2020-21 Males’s All-Sports activities Award – present
1. Campbell …………………………… 9.50-9.92
2. Radford …………………………………….. 8.38
3. Excessive Level ……………………………… 7.46
UNC Asheville ……………………. 7.46
5. Charleston Southern …… 7.33
6-7. Gardner-Webb ………………. 6.91-7.22
6-7. USC Upstate …………………… 6.83-7.25
8-9. Winthrop …………………………………. 6.08
8-9. Presbyterian Faculty 5.96-6.38
10. Longwood ………………………………. 5.33
11. Hampton ………………………………….. 5.25
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