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May 21, 2003
LHU Finishes Sixth in PSAC's 2003 Dixon Trophy Standings

(Lock Haven, Pa.) - Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania finished in sixth-place in the 2003 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s (PSAC) Dixon Trophy standings as announced today. Lock Haven, the Dixon Trophy award winner the past two years, passes the trophy to this year’s winner Shippensburg University.
            The Dixon Trophy is named after F. Eugene Dixon, Jr., former chairman of the Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education. It has been awarded annually since 1995 to the PSAC member institution that accumulates the most points based on results of conference playoffs and/or regular-season records. Each institution’s point total is calculated by adding its top six men’s finishes and top six women’s finishes in 22 conference sports.          Lock Haven recorded a year-end total of 108 points to place sixth overall. Shippensburg University collected 127 points for the win, distancing itself from the rest of the competition by a record of 7.5 points. Runner-up Indiana (Pa.) University totaled 119.5 points, while Slippery Rock University (115.5), Kutztown University (114.5) and Millersville University (114) followed in third through fifth place.
            Lock Haven won two conference titles over the 2002-03 academic year, as the Bald Eagles and Lady Eagles claimed both PSAC Indoor Track and Field crowns this past winter. LHU squads finished as conference championship runners-up in men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, field hockey and wrestling, and advanced to the PSAC playoffs in women’s soccer and men’s basketball.
            Over the course of the academic year, a total of 103 All-PSAC Awards were earned by 73 Lock Haven student-athletes, with nine of them earning additional honors as All-Americans.   Three PSAC Coach of the Year accolades were handed out to Lock Haven athletics staff, two LHU student-athletes earned recognition as the conference Rookie of the Year, and two student-athletes were named the PSAC Athlete of the Year.
            The Lock Haven athletics program was the 2000 and 2001 Dixon Trophy winner. It is the third win for Shippensburg, which also won the trophy in back-to-back years in 1998 and 1999.
            A complete breakdown of the 2003 Dixon Trophy standings can be located at the PSAC website at www.psacsports.org.

2003 PSAC Dixon Trophy Standings
	Men	Women	Total
1. Shippensburg	65.5	61.5	127
2. Indiana	51	68.5	119.5
3. Slippery Rock	57.5	58	115.5
4. Kutztown	55.5	59	114.5
5. Millersville	61.5	52.5	114
*6. Lock Haven*	*51.5*	*56.5*	*108*
7. West Chester	52	55.5	107.5
8. Bloomsburg	43.5	63	106.5
9. Edinboro	52	52	104
10. Clarion	43.5	56	99.5
11. East Stroudsburg	45.5	43	88.5
12. California	39	42.5	81.5
13. Mansfield	25.5	29	54.5
14. Cheyney	11.5	6.5	18

Dixon Trophy Year-By-Year
1995-96.................. Bloomsburg University
1996-97.................. Bloomsburg University
1997-98.................. Shippensburg University
1998-99.................. Shippensburg University
1999-2000.............. Millersville University
2000-01................ Lock Haven University
2001-02................ Lock Haven University
2002-03................. Shippensburg University

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