MEAC Media Family members
Soccer
6/9/2023 12:45:00 PM
Derek W. Bryant, Assistant Athletic Director for Media Family members & Sports activities Knowledge
Bison rack up each awards for the primary time since 1988
NORFOLK, Va. (June 9, 2022) – The Mid-Jap Athletic Convention (MEAC) hosted its every year All-Sports activities Awards Dinner in Orlando, Fla., the place the Howard College Division of Athletics swept this yr’s honors: Talmadge Layman Hill Males’s All-Sports activities Award and the Mary McLeod Bethune Ladies’s All-Sports activities Award. The awards have been offered on the Disney Recent Hotel and Conference Middle, in partnership with Disney at the Backyard, held along side the convention’s annual spring conferences. The convention introduced Friday morning.
Howard racked up its 2d consecutive Mary McLeod Bethune award (6th total) whilst incomes its first Layman Hill honor since 1988 (fourth total). Moreover, HU swept each trophies for the primary time since 1988.
“Congratulations to Howard College, together with President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, Director of Athletics Kery Davis, and the directors, coaches, student-athletes and reinforce group of workers for profitable each the Talmadge Layman Hill Males’s All-Sports activities Award and the Mary McLeod Bethune Ladies’s All-Sports activities Award,” MEAC Commissioner Sonja Stills stated. “Receiving those awards is indicative of the full energy in their athletics systems, and the Bison had a lovely 2022-23 instructional yr.”
The all-sports awards are signs of the full strengths of the convention’s males’s and girls’s athletic systems. Howard used to be offered with two $20,000 tests, one for every award.
Howard tallied 43 issues within the males’s all-sports tally, edging out Norfolk State (41.5). At the season, HU gained its first males’s basketball outright identify because the 1986-87 season whilst incomes a proportion of the league championship in soccer, the primary since 1993. The Hilltop additionally had 3 runner-up finishes in go nation, indoor and out of doors observe & box.
For the ladies, HU registered 53.5 issues after profitable the Triple Crown in go nation, indoor and out of doors observe & box (first time at school historical past). Howard additionally earned a shared or the steady season identify in volleyball whilst putting 2d in basketball.
“I’m so happy with our coaches, student-athletes, directors and reinforce group of workers on those accomplishments,” stated Howard Director of Athletics Kery Davis. “The arduous paintings and determination every particular person installed on a regular basis paid off and we glance to construct in this going into the 2023-24 yr. President Frederick and I want to thank Commissioner Stills, the MEAC and Disney for those implausible achievements.”
Issues are awarded in a descending order, starting with 9 (9) issues for championships or first-place regular-season finishes. The second one-place staff receives seven (7) issues. Tied groups cut up the purpose general.
Issues have been awarded for normal season finishes in each game however go nation, indoor observe & box and out of doors observe & box, the place issues have been awarded according to finishes at MEAC championships.
Disney at the Backyard is an initiative established in 2020 to deepen The Walt Disney Corporate’s present engagement with HBCUs. The initiative additionally will assist construct a powerful, long-term pipeline of Black skill in the course of the building of scholar internships, mentorship alternatives, inside HBCU cultural sequence, digital occupation showcases for college kids, and extra.
For more info, discuss with the Bison Athletics site at www.HUBison.com and/or the MEAC site at www.MEACSports.com.
