COLORADO SPRINGS – May 31, 2017 – Fort Lewis College received 535 points in the 2016-17 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference All-Sports Competition Cup, placing 10
th overall in the 15-team league standings.
Colorado School of Mines claimed its second straight RMAC All-Sports Competition Cup after compiling 895.5 points during the 2016-17 season.
The RMAC All-Sports Competition Cup is awarded to the institution which accumulates the most points over the year based on its teams' outcome in the RMAC's four core sports, along with six wild card sports. The four core sports are football or men's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball, while the six wild card sports consist of three men's sports and three women's sports, which are designated by that institution's best finish in those 19 non-core sports (23 total RMAC sports).
Total RMAC All-Sports Competition Cup points are calculated based on how the teams finish in the RMAC regular season standings. In the scenario where teams do not have regular season standings, conference championship results are used. If there is a tie, points are combined and divided by the number of teams involved in the tie. Point fractions were rounded up if above .5.
In the core sports, the Skyhawks received 255.5 points, led by the men's basketball team's second place finish in the league standings (94 points) and the women's basketball third place finish (77.5 points).
In the women's wildcard sports (cross country, soccer, lacrosse, softball, track and field and golf), lacrosse led FLC with 70 points (184 women's wildcard sports points). Men's cross country accounted for 99.5 of the men's wildcard sports (cross county, golf and soccer).