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Contact: Carol Hudson, ODU
Phone: (757) 683-3372

June 22, 2007


Old Dominion Repeats as VaSID
All-Sports Champion

NORFOLK, Va. — Old Dominion University won 66 percent of its intercollegiate athletic contests in 2006-07 to win the 29th annual Virginia Sports Information Director’s Association Division I All-Sport championship. This is the second straight time and 12th overall for the Monarchs.

2007 VaSID University Division All-Sports Survey

The University of Virginia was second overall at .638 and Virginia Commonwealth was third at .578.  ODU won 64 percent of its men’s contests and 68 percent of it’s women’s.  Virginia led all Virginia Division I school’s in men’s winning percentage at .713.

ODU was paced by its men’s soccer team advancing to the round of 16 in the NCAA tournament, while men’s golf, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s tennis and field hockey competed in the NCAA Championships. Wrestling captured the Virginia Intercollegiate State title.

Virginia led the state in national top 20 team finishes, including two national runners-up in women’s lacrosse and women’s rowing.  Men’s soccer advanced to the NCAA semi-finals as did men’s tennis, while women’s basketball reached the WNIT Quarterfinals.

There were two individual NCAA national champions. Somdev Devvarman from the University of Virginia won the NCAA men’s tennis singles title and Hampton University’s Yvette Lewis captured the NCAA outdoor triple jump championship. James Madison’s Archery squad captured the overall national title and William and Mary’s men’s gymnastics squad captured the USAG National Championship. Virginia’s varsity four crew won the NCAA Rowing national championship in that event.

William and Mary, Hampton and Liberty led the state with five conference titles followed by Richmond with four and Virginia, ODU, Virginia Tech and Norfolk State with three.

Overall, Virginia Division I schools compiled a 2266-21040-53 record for a winning percentage of .518. Men’s teams were 1103-986-28 for a .528 percentage while the women’s teams were also at .510 with a 1163-118-25 mark. There were 16 sports that won over 50 percent of their events led by softball (.572) and men’s tennis (.577).

The survey began in 1978-79 and includes winning percentages of only those sports with NCAA sponsored championships. Old Dominion won seven of the first eight titles, then again in 1993-94, 1995-96 and 1998-99. Virginia won five straight years from 1988-89 to 1992-93, then again in 1996-97, 1997-98, and 2003-04 and 2004-05.  George Mason won in 1986-87, and James Madison in 1981-82, 1987-88 and 1994-95. Hampton University won in 2000 and 2001, while Richmond took first in 2002 and VCU followed in 2003.

All-State teams are selected by active members of the Virginia Sports Information Directors Association.  For more information, please visit the VaSID site at http://www.ferrum.edu/athletics/vasid.

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