University of North Carolina Athletics
Sears Directors Cup Standings with One Week Remaining
June 21, 1999 | General
June 15, 1999
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.- With one week remaining before the final Sears Directors Cup standings for the 1998-99 school year are announced, the University of North Carolina currently finds itself tied for 17th place in this year's standings. The final Cup standings will be finalized by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics next Tuesday, June 22.
The Tar Heels are currently tied for 17th place in the standings with 360 points. Arkansas and LSU have also earned 360 points in this year's compilation. Stanford has already clinched its fifth successive Sears Directors Cup. The Cardinal currently has 910 points in the standings. The current standings do not include the sport of basbeball which will be added before next Tuesday's final results are announced.
So far, North Carolina has scored in 16 of its 28 varsity sports and when the baseball total is added in next Tuesday Carolina would have scored points in 17 of the 28 sports (men's and women's outdoor and indoor track count as one sport each for Sears Cup totals, not four sports as is usually counted.) Women's soccer led the way for the Tar Heels with an 80-point contribution based on UNC's NCAA runnerup finish. Other sports that have scored include men's golf, women's basketball and women's track with 30 points each, women's golf, women's tennis, women's swimming, men's swimming, wrestling, field hockey and volleyball with 20 points each and women's lacrosse, men's track, men's basketball, fencing and women's cross country with 10 points each.
UNC scored 130 points in fall sports, 140 points in winter sports and 90 points so far in spring sports (not including baseball). Ten women's sports, six men's sports (including baseball) and one coed sport (fencing) were included in the totals for the Carolina athletic program.
UNC has posted five Top 10 Sears Directors Cup finishes in a row finishing first in 1993-94, second in 1994-95, sixth in 1995-96, second in 1996-97 and tied for second in 1997-98.
