Kenyon College Athletics

Owls land at No. 51 in Directors’ Cup Standings

6/12/2026 11:00:00 AM

CLEVELAND -- The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) released earlier this week the final standings for the 2025-26 Learfield Directors' Cup with Kenyon College placing 51st among the 316 NCAA Division III institutions that earned points in the standings.

The Learfield Directors' Cup is a program that began in the 1993-94 academic year and honors institutions that maintain a broad-based program while achieving success in many sports, both men's and women's. In charting out the standings, each Division III institution can count 18 sports toward its point total, four of which must be men's basketball, men's soccer, women's basketball and women's soccer. Points are earned by team or individual participation in NCAA Championships.

Kenyon's final score in the 2025-26 standings was 365.75, which put the Owls within the top 17 percent of NCAA Division III. Among all institutions in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC), only Denison University (672.00) and John Carroll University (585.25) finished better than Kenyon. At the top of the standings, Washington University in St. Louis (1,266.50) won the Cup for the first time.

Kenyon's point total from the 2025-26 campaign included five appearances in NCAA Championships, spanning the winter and spring seasons.

In the winter season, the Owls logged 165 points based on the women's swimming and diving program's third-place finish and the men's swimming and diving program's fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championship. In the spring season, the Owls tacked on another 200.75 points. That total was earned based on the men's golf team's sixth place finish, as well as both the men's and women's tennis team making it into the third round of the NCAA bracket.
Over the last four years, including 2025-26, Kenyon has alternated 43rd- and 51st-place finishes in the Directors' Cup Standings.

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