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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very funny.  This is why I sent all my children to Williams.[/quote]

At least at Williams, we win the Directors Cup.  [/quote]

Indeed you do. And it is something that so many posters on this thread will never understand.[/quote]

Me being one of them.

Is a "Directors Cup" some kid of prize for D3 students?[/quote]

It's a prize for D1, D2 and D3 based on the school that has the best overall sports teams each year.  [/quote]

Nobody pays much attention to D2 sports because they are typically a wasteland from both an athletic and an academic POV but it is very big for D1 and D3 programs. Horror of horrors Stanford dominates D1 and Williams dominates D3 though Emory, JHU, Middlebury, and Tufts have also won. The directors cup is a major reason why you will not see smaller sports programs cut at these schools. Stanford took a lot of heat when they tried to cut some programs awhile ago and quickly reinstated them.[/quote]

Williams did dominate D3...but hasn't won it since 2019 (there were no winners for 2020 and 2021 due to Covid) and then it was Tufts, JHU, JHU and Emory.

Not sure if there is now a shift where the larger D3 schools will tend to win it or not, though that is certainly the trend for the last 4 years, and I would imagine will probably be repeated this upcoming year since Emory men's soccer made it to the D3 semis and women's soccer made it to the D3 finals...and Tufts men's soccer won the D3 championship and WashU women won the D3 championship.[/quote]

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