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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to split hairs...but if you look at which D3 schools have won the most titles in different sports, most are not high-academic D3s.

The exceptions are Middlebury for Hockey and Kenyon for swimming and diving.

JHU is D1 for LAX, so that puts them into a very different category for that sport.

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This just isn’t true. If you the directors cup standings you will find a common set of schools at the top year after year. Top D3 athletics is dominated by top academic schools. UAA, NESCAC, along with a few others. This is the land where most of the real ‘all-around’ unicorns exist along with the Ivies.[/quote]

Go do a search of all the sports by which schools have won the most championships.

Union college for football, Marietta for baseball, Messiah College for women’s soccer, Salisbury and Hobart for men’s LAX, North Park for men’s basketball, etc.

If you just look at 2024-2025 champions it’s around 60% non-selective D3s.

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The UAA and NESCAC do not participate in football post season. Looking at D3 sports overall they dominate. You can find examples here and there but for across the board excellence it is the UAA for universities and the NESCAC for SLACs.[/quote]

Well…I just found 60% of all D3 sports just for this past 2024/25 season.

I guess the Directors Cup awards points for how schools finish in every sport so it’s a ranking of the average place of all D3 colleges.

Just making the point that in each individual sport it’s usually a non-academic D3 that wins the championship…and I assume that doesn’t happen by accident.

BTW my kid is playing for a UAA team and while they are a strong player…I honestly can’t say they are an “all around” unicorn.[/quote]

If your kid got into a UAA school and plays on a UAA caliber team they are pretty special. You should be proud of them.

There are non-academic teams that win championships, they have a much wider recruiting pool but the UAA and NESCAC are very serious about sports and are loaded with kids that excel at both academics and athletics.[/quote]

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