Mount Olive Sweeps Conference Carolinas All-Sports ‘Joby Hawn Cup’; Trojans Take Men's, Women's, & Overall Award

High Point, NC> Mount Olive College swept the Conference Carolinas Joby Hawn Cup with the completion of the recent league spring championships.  The Hawn Cup is awarded to the league member that shows the highest rating of excellence in all men’s conference-sponsored sports, all women’s conference-sponsored sports, and both the men’s and women’s conference-sponsored sports combined. The Hawn Cup is tallied after each sport season (fall, winter, & spring) and then awarded each year in honor of former Commissioner H.C. "Joby" Hawn for his many years of service to the former Carolinas Conference. 

 

This is the second year that the Hawn Cup is comprised of three different awards which include: the women’s sports award, the men’s sports award, and the overall cup winner (combining both the men & women’s results).  Hawn Cup points are awarded in each sport based on the order of regular season finish with bonus points going to the tournament champion (2 pt.) and runner-up finishers (1pt.). Men's & women’s golf, men's and women's cross country, and men’s and women’s track & field are the only conference sponsored sports in which points are determined solely by conference tournament finish.

 

Mount Olive College came from the third-place position in the Hawn Cup standings after the completion of the winter basketball seasons by having a terrific spring campaign to take the overall Hawn Cup title.  With the highest rating of .844 among league members, Mount Olive claims their first Hawn Cup since membership affiliation in 1988.  The Trojans also become the second winning institution to take the individual men’s cup the women’s cup and overall award to sweep all three honors.

 

Mount Olive took bonus points in five of the 11 spring sports.  Spring championship titles in baseball, men’s tennis, men’s track & field, and women’s track & field with runner-up finishes in men’s volleyball and women’s golf were key for the Trojans to make the leap up the league charts. Second place tournament finishes in women’s cross-country and men’s basketball also contributed earlier in the year.

 

Last year’s Hawn Cup winner, Queens University of Charlotte, finished second in the overall standings.  The Royals took three tournament titles and two runner-up finishes for the year.  Tournament Champions for Queens were women’s cross country, men’s cross country, and women’s golf while runner-ups included women’s volleyball, and women’s tennis.

 

King College finished third overall with a .662 rating.  In their first year of conference membership, the Tornado came into the league and won the softball title while also taking runner-up finishes in men’s cross country and men’s track & field.

 

Limestone finishes in fourth place overall with a rating of .656.  Erskine, Lees-McRae, and Belmont Abbey and were close behind with ratings of .572, .567, and .511 correspondingly.   Rounding out the schools in order were Pfeiffer & Coker .497 (tied), Barton .467, North Greenville .401 and Converse .209 respectively.

 

Mount Olive also took the individual titles in the men’s conference- sponsored sports and the women’s conference- sponsored sports.  This is the second year for both of these new awards and also the second year the overall winner took all three awards in the same year.  The men’s top three teams were Mount Olive, King, & Queens while the women’s top three teams were Mount Olive, Queens, and Limestone.

 

Link to the FULL 2011-12 Current Joby Hawn Cup Standings:

http://www.conferencecarolinas.com/sports/hawn_cup/20082511_AwardsIndex

 

 

 

Conference Carolinas Joby Hawn Cup Winners

                                Overall Winner                                     Men’s Winner                                       Women’s Winner

2011-12                 Mount Olive College                           Mount Olive College                           Mount Olive College

2010-11                 Queens University of Charlotte     Queens University of Charlotte               Queens University of Charlotte

2009-10                 Anderson University

2008-09                 Anderson University

2007-08                 Anderson University

(Note: 2010-11 is the first year for three separate awards)

 

Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference (CVAC) Joby Hawn Cup Winners

2006-07                 Anderson University

2005-06                 Pfeiffer University

2004-05                 Barton College

2003-04                 Barton College

2002-03                 Barton College

2001-02                 Lees-McRae College

2000-01                 Queens College

1999-00                 Belmont Abbey College

1998-99                 Belmont Abbey College

1997-98                 Queens College

1995-96                 High Point University

 

Pre-CVAC Joby Hawn Cup Winners

1994-95                 Pfeiffer

1993-94                 High Point

1992-93                 St. Andrews

1991-92                 Pembroke

1990-91                 No Record

1989-90                 High Point

1988-89                 Pembroke

1987-88                 Elon

1986-87                 Elon

1985-86                 High Point

1984-85                 High Point

1983-84                 Pembroke

1982-83                 Guilford

1981-82                 Elon

1980-81                 Elon

1979-80                 Elon & High Point (tie)

1978-79                 High Point

1977-78                 High Point

1976-77                 High Point

1975-76                 High Point