{"id":63233,"date":"2021-07-29T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=63233"},"modified":"2021-07-29T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:53:50","slug":"big-sky-presidents-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/big-sky-presidents-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Athletics named annual Big Sky Presidents\u2019 Cup winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth time in university history, NAU won the <a href=\"https:\/\/bigskyconf.com\/\">Big Sky Conference<\/a> 2020-21 Presidents\u2019 Cup, becoming the third institution to win the award four or more times.<\/p>\n<p>The win is the Lumberjacks\u2019 first Presidents\u2019 Cup since winning it in back-to-back seasons in 2012-13 and 2013-14. It ties Eastern Washington for second-most in the award\u2019s 19-year history.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with NAU\u2019s sweep of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nauathletics.com\/news\/2021\/5\/26\/general-nau-athletics-sweeps-big-sky-all-sport-trophies-for-sixth-time-in-school-history.aspx\">2020-21 Big Sky All-Sport Trophies<\/a>, this year marks the second instance that a school claimed the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s All-Sport Trophies and the Presidents\u2019 Cup in one competition year. NAU was also the first, doing so in 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so proud of the academic and athletic excellence displayed by NAU student-athletes,\u201d said Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics <strong>Mike Marlow<\/strong>. \u201cPrior to the 2020-21 academic year, our student-athletes, coaches and staff embraced the goal of becoming stronger as a result of the perseverance required to face the unique challenges last year presented. The Presidents\u2019 Cup is a strong indication that they did indeed accomplish their goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Presidents\u2019 Cup promotes the Big Sky\u2019s commitment to academics and recognizes a member school\u2019s overall success in the classroom and athletic competition. It is given annually to the school that excels both academically and athletically.<\/p>\n<p>In the classroom, the Lumberjacks received the highest APR ranking this year with a single-year rate of 990. In addition, every single Big Sky-sponsored program in the department had a team GPA of 3.0 or better for the 2020-21 academic year, allowing<\/p>\n<p>NAU to edge out Idaho by one point in the final Presidents\u2019 Cup rankings, while Montana State and Weber State came in four points behind for third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/big-sky-presidents-cup\/\">For the fourth time in university history, NAU won the Big Sky Conference 2020-21 Presidents\u2019 Cup, becoming the third institution to win the award four or more times. The win is the Lumberjacks\u2019 first Presidents\u2019 Cup since winning it in back-to-back seasons in 2012-13 and 2013-14. It ties Eastern Washington for second-most in the award\u2019s&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":63253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,459],"class_list":["post-63233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-big-sky-conference","tag-nau-athletics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}