SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The South Dakota ladies have gained the 2025-26 Summit League Dr. Helen Smiley Women’s All-Sport Award, the league workplace introduced Wednesday morning following the Joint Council Meetings’ Dinner on Tuesday evening.
The Coyote ladies secured 51.5 crew factors, narrowly topping South Dakota State (50.5 pts.) and North Dakota State (49 pts.). South Dakota earned the award for the eighth time within the final 11 years, profitable the 2025-26 award after constant performances all through the 2025-26 seasons to safe the award in one of many tightest finishes in award historical past.
North Dakota State took the mixed Commissioner’s Cup (males’s + ladies’s factors mixed) with 87 crew factors. South Dakota State completed second with 81.5 factors, adopted by the Yotes with 80.5 factors.
The NDSU males took residence the Dr. William Stenbrecher Men’s All-Sport Award with 38 factors. The Coyote males completed third with 29 factors.
ABOUT THE COMMISSIONER’S CUP & ALL-SPORTS AWARDS
The Cup is given yearly to the member establishment that collects essentially the most mixed factors in relationship to its placement within the common season standings for males’s and ladies’s soccer, volleyball, males’s and ladies’s basketball, males’s and ladies’s tennis, softball and baseball and its championship placement in males’s and ladies’s cross nation, swimming and diving, indoor monitor and subject, outside monitor and subject and golf.
The All-Sports Awards are given to the establishments that accumulate essentially the most factors in males’s sports activities and ladies’s sports activities. The males’s award is known as for former Valparaiso Director of Athletics Dr. William Steinbrecher, who guided the Crusaders from 1979-2004, whereas the ladies’s award is known as for former Western Illinois Director of Athletics Dr. Helen Smiley, who headed WIU’s athletic program from 1994-2001.
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