All-Sports Standings

GRINNELL, Iowa – A record-setting year of athletics has guided Grinnell College to a three-peat of the Midwest Conference All-Sports Trophies.
                                            
Grinnell won 10 of a possible 18 MWC team titles, a record total for championships in a season (additionally, Grinnell won men's and women's golf titles in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference).
 
The Pioneer men's and women's teams, who also won both all-sports awards in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 campaigns, are the only college to achieve the streak since Coe College won three in a row from 1992-93 through 1994-95.
 
Grinnell's men have now won the Ralph Shively Cup for the 11^th time, but only three times since 2014-15, and the women boosted their total to nine including five years in a row.

All-sports points are awarded on a 9-8-7, etc. basis in all sports except for football, which is done on a 10-9-8, etc. basis, and tennis 7-6-5, etc. The University of Chicago is skipped in football and St. Norbert and Milwaukee School of Engineering in women's and men's swimming and diving.
 
Places are determined by regular-season standings for men's and women's soccer, volleyball, men's and women's basketball, softball, men's and women's tennis, football and baseball. Championship meets are used to determine points for the other sports.
 
Grinnell's women piled up 61.5 points compared to runner-up Illinois College's total of 53.5. On the men's side, Grinnell scored 67.5 and was well ahead of runner-up Illinois College's total of 53.5.
 
The Pioneers won five titles in both the men's and women's divisions. Men's champs came in basketball, swimming and diving, indoor track and field, tennis and baseball. Grinnell received second-place points in men's soccer, cross country and third-place points in outdoor track and field.
 
Championships in the women's division came in cross country, tennis, swimming and diving, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field.
  
The all-sports trophies are named for Ralph Shively, former Chair of the Mathematics Department at Lake Forest College. He was actively involved in the MWC as a Faculty Athletic Representative beginning in 1974 before becoming the Conference commissioner in 1982. He held that post until 2004.