PSAC Dixon Trophy Announcement  |  2025-26 Final Standings (PDF)
 
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University Athletics Department finished fifth in the 2025-26 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Dixon Trophy standings, the league office announced Wednesday.
 
With its fifth-place finish in 2025-26, Slippery Rock becomes the only school in the PSAC to finish in the top five in each of the last seven years in the conference's annual all-sport competition.
 
The Dixon Trophy is awarded annually to one of the 17 Athletics Departments in the PSAC that has the highest average finish in league-sponsored championships. Each team in each sport is awarded a point value between one and 17 based on its finish in league championships with 17 points going to each sport's champion. Those point totals are then averaged to provide a final score for each Athletics Department.
 
West Chester earned its first Dixon Trophy since 2018-19 after finishing with an average score of 12.08 points. Gannon, the 2024-25 Dixon Trophy winners, finished second at 11.75 points followed in the top five by East Stroudsburg (11.47), Indiana (Pa.) (10.97) and The Rock (10.88).
 
Slippery Rock won four PSAC overall titles in 2025-26. The Rock's women's track & field program claimed indoor and outdoor conference championships, while women's lacrosse and women's tennis also captured PSAC titles.
 
SRU's men's programs were paced by runner-up finishes during the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons, providing The Rock with 15 points in each sport.
 
SRU also compiled at least nine points in six other sports including women's soccer (13), women's cross country (12), softball (11), Football (10.5), men's cross country (10) and men's basketball (9).
 
The Rock have never finished lower than eighth in the final standings since the award's inception in 1995 and have now finished in the top five 19 times in the 29 years the trophy has been handed out. SRU has claimed the title on two occasions, once in 2007-08 when only the top 12 scores were counted and again in 2023-24 when all sports were counted.
 
A breakdown of all the SRU teams that recorded double-digit points in the final 2025-26 standings can be found below, along with a look at The Rock's all-time Dixon Trophy results.
 
TOP SCORING SRU TEAMS IN 2025-26
17 points – Women's Indoor Track & Field
17 points – Women's Lacrosse
17 points – Women's Tennis
17 points – Women's Outdoor Track & Field
15 points – Men's Indoor Track & Field
15 points – Men's Outdoor Track & Field
13 points – Women's Soccer
12 points – Women's Cross Country
11 points – Softball
10.5 points – Football
10 points – Men's Cross Country
 
SRU'S DIXON TROPHY YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS
2025-26: 5th
2024-25: 2nd
2023-24: 1st
2022-23: 3rd
2021-22: 2nd
2018-19: 5th
2017-18: 5th
2016-17: 8th
2015-16: 4th
2014-15: 3rd
2013-14: 6th
2012-13: 4th
2011-12: 4th
2010-11: 5th
2009-10: 7th
2008-09: 4th
2007-08: 1st
2006-07: 3rd
2005-06: 4th
2004-05: 8th
2003-04: 5th
2002-03: 3rd
2001-02: 8th
2000-01: 6th
1999-00: 6th
1998-99: 6th
1997-98: 6th
1996-97: 5th
1995-96: 8th
 
SRU'S DIXON TROPHY ALL-TIME FINISHES
1st – 2x (2023-24, 2007-08)
2nd – 2x (2024-25, 2021-22)
3rd – 4x (2022-23, 2014-15, 2006-07, 2002-03)
4th – 5x (2015-16, 2012-13, 2011-12, 2008-09, 2005-06)
5th – 6x (2025-26, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2010-11, 2003-04, 1996-97)
6th – 5x (2013-14, 2000-01, 1999-00, 1998-99, 1997-98)
7th – 1x (2009-10)
8th – 4x (2016-17, 2004-05, 2001-02, 1995-96)







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