July 8, 2008

Cleveland, Ohio - The University of Denver received the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association (DI-AAA ADA) All-Sports trophy for the 2007-08 year. Denver was the top-ranked Division I-AAA institution in the 2007-08 United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup Standings.

The Pioneers tallied 434.25 total points in the standings, including a national championship in the national collegiate sport of skiing. Denver also tallied points in women's soccer, women's gymnastics, men's ice hockey, men's swimming and diving, men's and women's golf, men's lacrosse, and men's and women's tennis.

"The Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association would like to congratulate Peg Bradley-Doppes and the Pioneers of the University of Denver on winning the 2007-08 All-Sports trophy for our association," stated 2008-09 DI-AAA ADA President Jack McDonald, director of athletics at Quinnipiac University. "This award identifies the best all-around sports program in Division I and I want to congratulate Denver's athletics administrators, coaches and student-athletes on their success over the past year. We would also like to make mention that as an association, we reached a record number of members during the 2007-08 year with 103. We want to thanks all of you for helping represent Division I-AAA."

Rounding out the top-five in Division I were Pepperdine in second, Oral Roberts in third, Boston University in fourth and UC Irvine in fifth.

Also, for the first time this year, the Division I-AAA ADA handed out individual sport trophies to the I-AAA institution that had the highest finish in an NCAA Championship. Taking home the individual hardware in baseball was Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine and Wichita State; men's basketball - Xavier; women's basketball - George Washington and Old Dominion; men's cross country - Portland; women's cross country - UC Santa Barbara; men's golf - North Carolina Charlotte; women's golf - Denver; men's soccer - Bradley and Illinois Chicago; women's soccer - Portland; softball - DePaul; men's tennis - Pepperdine; women's tennis - Denver and Pepperdine; men's indoor track and field - Oral Roberts; women's indoor track and field - Boston University; men's outdoor track and field - Oral Roberts and Texas A&M Corpus Christi; women's outdoor track and field - Providence; and volleyball - St. John's.

"We are pleased that we are able to recognize the Division I-AAA institutions that finish highest in an NCAA Championship," stated Mike Carter, AD at Oral Roberts University and the chair of the Division I-AAA All-Sports Trophy Committee. "The committee looks forward to continuing this process in the year's to come."

About Division I-AAA ADA: Now in its eighth year, the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association's mission is to enhance initiatives common to its Division I-AAA membership (the 94 Division I institutions that do not sponsor football), in particular, aspects related to their flagship basketball programs. The Association is administered by NACDA, now in its 44th year. NACDA is the professional and educational association for more than 6,500 college athletics administrators at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. More than 2,200 athletics administrators annually attend the NACDA Convention. Additionally, NACDA administers 11 professional associations for the separate business units that report directly to the athletics director.