The Mary Baldwin athletics teams posted the institution’s highest ranking in the USA South President’s Cup Standings since 2016-17 with a 16th place finish in the 2021-22 all-sports award standings.
The 13 MBU teams that compete in USA South championship competition combined to score 54.5 points, including 18 by the women’s cross country and women’s track & field teams, during the 2021-22 season. Fighting Squirrels teams combined this year to record 69 total victories and five ties - the most successful season in this century.
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The 54-point total is more than twice as many points as MBU has compiled in any season since joining the USA South prior to the 2007-08 campaign, when the Fighting Squirrels compiled 22 points in the all-sports competition. The 22 points in 2007-08 was MBU’s highest point total since joining the conference.
MBU posted a sixth place finish out of 15 teams in the women’s cross country championship, earning 10 points in the President’s Cup Standings, was the Fighting Squirrels best finish. Women’s track & field (8.0 points), women’s soccer (7.5 points) and women’s basketball (7.0 points), were the four highest-scoring teams for MBU.
Those teams led the MBU women’s teams to rank 12th out of 19 teams among the nine USA South women’s championship sports. The women’s basketball team qualified for the USA South playoffs for the fourth-straight season while the women’s soccer team earned its first conference playoff appearance.
The first-year men’s basketball team ranked highest for MBU, captured four points in the standings and was the highest scoring men’s team. The Fighting Squirrels scored a total of 13.5 points in six of the nine USA South men’s championship sports and finish 15th among the men’s teams in the conference.
Two of MBU’s sports – men’s and women’s indoor track & field – do not compete in USA South competition as the conference does not sponsor the varsity championship. The Fighting Squirrels placed third in the D3 Atlantic Indoor championship meet men’s competition and eighth in the women’s chase.