BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – The Concord University Athletic Department sits fourth in the Mountain East Conference Commissioner's Cup after the fall semester, the league office released Thursday.
The Mountain Lions are the top public school in the ratings behind Charleston, Notre Dame and Davis & Elkins. Fairmont State rounds out the top five. CU has a rating of 0.59 while leader UC is at 0.82.
The standings are compiled utilizing an "all-sports rating." This rating is determined by a formula that awards points to a school for its regular season finish equal to the number of teams per sport sponsored by the MEC, and then divided by the number of sports offered by the institution. The final rating is a percentage of points acquired against the number of points available
(average percentile finish in the standings of each sport sponsored by an institution).
A big reason why Concord is in fourth at the halfway point of the academic year is conference championships won by men's golf and women's soccer. But men's cross country and women's golf also claimed top-five finishes in their respective championships in the month of October.
After the completion of the 2018-19 academic year, Concord has had its highest-ever finish in the MEC Commissioner's Cup as it placed fifth.
