Southern Wesleyan Sweeps Messick Sportsmanship Award Honors
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Southern Wesleyan has swept the Conference Carolinas Messick Sportsmanship Awards for the 2020-21 academic year.
Southern Wesleyan has now swept the Messick Awards (overall, men’s and women’s) twice with the Warriors also winning all three awards in the 2017-18 academic year. Southern Wesleyan has now won the overall Messick Award twice (2017-18 and 2020-21).
In winning the women’s Messick in the 2020-21 academic year, Southern Wesleyan won six team Messick Awards. Southern Wesleyan collected the men’s outdoor track & field team Messick Award and finished among the top in numerous other sports in capturing the men’s Messick honor.
Southern Wesleyan has collected the women’s Messick honor three times now, while the 2020-21 academic year marks the second time they have earned the men’s honor.
The Conference Carolinas Directors of Athletics implemented the process by which the Conference Carolinas Messick Sportsmanship Awards are determined. A student-athlete and coach from each institution vote separately upon the sportsmanship of all conference competitors. Each institution then submits those votes to the conference office where the averages are then calculated to decide the winner for each conference-sponsored sport.
The Team Messick Sportsmanship Awards are named after John D. Messick, who was the President of former conference member East Carolina from 1947-59. Messick truly championed sportsmanship and even wrote a book entitled, "Personality and Character Development."
Messick Sportsmanship Award Recipients
1982-83: Pfeiffer
1983-84: Catawba
1984-85: Barton
1985-86: Guilford
1986-87: UNC Pembroke
1988-89: Elon
1989-90: Guilford
1990-91: St. Andrews
1991-92: High Point
1992-93: High Point
1993-94: Pfeiffer
1994-95: High Point
1995-96: High Point
1996-97: Erskine
1997-98: Erskine
1998-99: Erskine
1999-00: Erskine
2000-01: Coker and Pfeiffer
2001-02: St. Andrews
2002-03: St. Andrews
2003-04: Anderson
2004-05: Anderson
2005-06: Anderson
2006-07: Anderson
2007-08: Converse
2008-09: Converse
2009-10: Converse
2010-11: Converse
2011-12: Belmont Abbey
2012-13: Belmont Abbey
2013-14: Belmont Abbey and North Greenville
2014-15: King
2015-16: Converse
2016-17:
Overall: Belmont Abbey
Men’s: Belmont Abbey
Women’s: Southern Wesleyan
2017-18:
Overall: Southern Wesleyan
Men’s: Southern Wesleyan
Women’s: Southern Wesleyan
2018-19:
Overall: Belmont Abbey
Men’s: Belmont Abbey
Women’s: Belmont Abbey
2019-20:
Overall: King
Men’s: North Greenville
Women’s: King
2020-21:
Overall: Southern Wesleyan
Men’s: Southern Wesleyan
Women’s: Southern Wesleyan