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LOCK HAVEN, Pa.- With 14 of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's 22 yearly Championships now complete, following the conclusion of the winter season, West Chester now sits second in the 2025-26 Dixon Trophy Standings entering the Spring 2026 season.
Gannon remains atop the standings with a 12.29 average overall, as the Golden Knights men's team has a 12.36 average, while their women's team averages 12.20.
West Chester climbed to second in the standings during the winter season with an overall average of 12.00, including a 12.57 average among the Golden Rams men's teams, which is the best in the league. West Chester scored 17 points during the winter season with a men's swimming Championship (38
th overall/27
th straight in a Championship meet, which West Chester competed in), along with 12 from men's basketball, who entered the PSAC Tournament as the No. 2 seed, and 10 from the indoor track and field that finished 6
th at the Indoor Championships. The Golden Rams women's teams have an 11.43 average through two seasons of action, led by 17 points from another Swimming Championship (23
rd overall/19
th straight in a Championship meet, which West Chester competed in), along with nine points from an eighth-place finish by the women's indoor track and field team and four more points from the women's basketball program.
West Chester still has plenty of scoring opportunities ahead in the Spring, including outdoor track and field, baseball, softball, women's lacrosse, women's golf, and men's and women's tennis.
East Stroudsburg is third with an overall average of 11.22, including a 12.07 women's average and a 10.22 men's average, followed by Kutztown in fourth with an overall average of 10.94, including an 11.36 women's average and a 10.46 men's average through 14 Championship events.
The Dixon Trophy is awarded at the end of each academic year to the league's most successful program based on conference playoff and/or regular-season finish. Standings are compiled based on the average score for all PSAC Championship sports each school sponsors. Equal to its total membership, each conference sport champion is awarded 18 points, and a descending point value is given for respective place finishes. The second-through last-place values vary depending on the number of teams that sponsor the sport.
West Chester remains in search of its first Dixon Trophy Title since 2019, when the Golden Rams hoisted the trophy for the third time since 2016 and the second year in a row.
Introduced in the 1995-96 academic year, the award is named in honor of F. Eugene Dixon, Jr., former chairman of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board of Governors. Since then, nine PSAC institutions have claimed the Dixon Trophy. Shippensburg leads the league with eight victories, followed by West Chester's five. Gannon, Lock Haven, and Bloomsburg have three titles apiece, while Slippery Rock and California (Pa.) have two victories. Kutztown and Millersville have each had one once.
