Presidents’ Cup Returns to Penn State Behrend Once Again
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| Jack Burke, chancellor, and Brian Streeter, director of athletics, were awarded the 2008-09 Presidents' Cup. |
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, earned the 2008-09 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Presidents’ Cup for the eighth time in the award’s nine year history. Dr. Jack Burke, Penn State Behrend chancellor, and Brian Streeter, director of athletics, were once again presented with the Presidents’ Cup last week.
The award has been presented annually since the 2000-01 season to the conference member with the most successful overall program in AMCC competition. The AMCC’s 10 institutions compete for points in 13 men’s and women’s sports, with points accumulated for each team’s finish during the conference’s regular season.
Despite a close race after the completion of the fall sports season, the Behrend Lions finished with 101.5 total points, 15 points ahead of second place. Penn State Behrend captured seven team titles this year in baseball, softball, men’s cross country, men’s and women’s swimming, and men’s and women’s tennis.
Runners up include Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Md., with 86 points and one team championship in women’s volleyball and Penn State Altoona with 83 points and two championships in men’s golf and women’s soccer.
Rounding out the standings are the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, which won the women’s basketball championship, Medaille College in Buffalo, N.Y., earning the men’s basketball and men’s soccer titles, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, La Roche College in Pittsburgh, Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, Pa., Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, which secured the women’s cross country championship, and Hilbert College in Hamburg, N.Y. For complete Presidents’ Cup results, visit www.amcconf.org/PCUP2009.htm.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, is a comprehensive residential college offering 34 bachelor’s, six associate, four pre-professional and two graduate degree programs with 22 minors to more than 4,600 students. Focused on providing a student-centered environment, Penn State Behrend connects its students to a major research and land-grant institution on a campus enriched by more than 110 clubs and organizations, 21 NCAA varsity teams and 19 intramural sports. Penn State Behrend is named in recognition of a donation by Mary Behrend, widow of Ernst Behrend, who founded the Hammermill Paper Co. in Erie in 1898. The Behrend family lived on the 400-acre Glenhill Farm, which is the core of the Penn State Behrend campus today. For more information, visit behrend.psu.edu.