Courtesy of the Alabama State Athletics
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- The Alabama State College Athletics Division claimed two of three Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC) 2023-24 all-sports awards successful the James Frank Commissioner’s Cup and the Sadie Magee/Barbara Jacket Award for the second consecutive yr. The Texas Southern College Athletics Division claimed the C.D. Henry Award to spherical out the record of institutional winners.
Alabama State College claimed the James Frank Commissioner’s Cup for the second straight yr and for the eighth time within the final 10 years. Alabama State totaled 154.8 complete factors adopted by Jackson State (141.8 factors) and Prairie View A&M (138.5).
Alabama State College claimed the Sadie Magee/Barbara Jacket Award ending with 92.8 factors within the ladies’s closing standings. Florida A&M (82.8 factors) and Jackson State (79.3 factors) completed in second and third place respectively.
Texas Southern gained the C.D. Henry Award after accumulating 67.5 factors in males’s sponsored sports activities. Jackson State (62.5 factors) and Prairie View A&M (62.5 factors) completed tied for second place total.
The all-sports awards are decided by program finishes in league-sponsored sports activities. Every respective sports activities program end is awarded some extent worth and the member establishments with the very best level totals on the conclusion of the athletic season are named the all-sports awards winners.
A whole itemizing of ultimate standings and particular person program level totals for the three awards may be discovered beneath.
James Frank Commissioner’s Cup Award
1. Alabama State – 154.82. Jackson State – 141.83. Prairie View A&M – 138.54. Florida A&M – 131.35. Southern – 130.06. Texas Southern – 124.0T-7. Alabama A&M– 105.0T-7. Grambling State – 105.09. Arkansas-Pine Bluff – 103.010. Alcorn State – 88.011. Bethune-Cookman – 74.512. Mississippi Valley State –35.0
Magee/Jacket Award
1. Alabama State – 92.82. Florida A&M – 82.83. Jackson State – 79.3T-4. Southern – 76.0T-4. Prairie View A&M – 76.06. Alabama A&M – 65.57. Grambling State – 58.08. Texas Southern – 56.59. Arkansas-Pine Bluff – 52.510. Alcorn State – 41.511. Bethune-Cookman – 39.012. Mississippi Valley State – 18.0
C.D. Henry Award
1. Texas Southern– 67.5T-2. Jackson State – 62.5T-2. Prairie View A&M – 62.54. Alabama State – 62.05. Southern – 54.06. Arkansas-Pine Bluff – 50.57. Florida A&M – 48.58. Grambling State – 47.09. Alcorn State – 46.510. Alabama A&M – 39.511. Bethune-Cookman – 35.512. Mississippi Valley State – 17.0
Concerning the Dr. James Frank Commissioner’s Cup AwardThe Commissioner’s Cup, named for former league commissioner James Frank who led the SWAC from 1983 by way of 1998, is awarded to the college compiling the very best mixed complete of males’s and girls’s all-sport factors.
From 1983 till his retirement in 1998, Dr. Frank served as Commissioner of the Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC). He returned to the place as Interim Commissioner in April 2001, the place he served for 20 months. Throughout his steerage, the convention advanced to rank amongst the elite within the nation.
Dr. James Frank was one of some people who elevated by way of the collegiate ranks as a student-athlete, coach, educator, school president, and convention commissioner. Throughout an extended and distinguished profession of over 50 years, Frank’s efforts and influential management touched the lives of numerous individuals and resulted in optimistic adjustments within the many organizations he served.
Concerning the Magee/Jacket AwardThe Magee/Jacket Award is offered to the highest ladies’s athletic program within the SWAC. It’s named after former Jackson State ladies’s basketball coach Sadie Magee and former Prairie View A&M monitor and subject coach Barbara Jacket.
Magee was the primary ladies’s basketball coach at Jackson State, compiling 4 SWAC common season titles and three-straight Nationwide Affiliation of Ladies’s Sports activities Nationwide Championships from 1978-1980.
Jacket led the Prairie View A&M to eight cross nation, 9 indoor and 5 outside SWAC titles from 1965 to 1991. She was additionally the pinnacle coach of the 1992 U.S. Ladies’s Olympic Monitor workforce that introduced residence 4 gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals from Barcelona, Spain.
Concerning the C.D. Henry AwardThe Henry Award is offered to the highest males’s athletic program within the SWAC. The award is known as for C.D. Henry, former Grambling State chairman of the School of Well being, Bodily Schooling, and Recreation Division from 1958-74, in addition to serving as the manager officer and secretary-statistician for the SWAC in 1968-73.
Henry grew to become the primary African American assistant commissioner of any convention workplace when he joined the Massive Ten Convention in June of 1974.
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