Press release
The dynasty is real.
For a fourth straight year and fifth time in six years, the Lady Cardinal volleyball team has come out on top in the Cardinal Cup competition at Trinity Valley Community College.
Tuesday night at the eighth annual TVCC Sports Banquet at Athens Country Club, the Lady Cardinals were again awarded the Cardinal Cup — the prize for a fall/spring semester-long competition in which the college’s athletic department teams/groups are awarded points for supporting each other and for community service.
Coach Tosha Spain’s squad tallied 516 points to take the top spot over the softball team.
The Cardinal Cup, which began in the 2010 fall semester, is designed as a competition to help encourage student-athletes and other organizations at the college to become more involved and the events that take place on campus, not just athletic events. The program was implemented to create a supportive and active fan base of TVCC students to visibly and vocally support performing groups.
In addition to the volleyball and softball teams, groups participating in the competition this year were the football team and the men’s and women’s basketball teams.
Here are the top three in the Cardinal Cup standings for 2018:
- Volleyball – 516 points
- Softball – 400 points
- Women’s Basketball – 330 points
The Cardinal Cup trophy is on permanent display in the lobby at Cardinal Gym with the name of the winning group engraved each year.
Here are the all-time winners of the competition:
- 2011 – Cheerleaders
- 2012 – Trainers
- 2013 – Volleyball
- 2014 – Football
- 2015 – Volleyball
- 2016 – Volleyball
- 2017 – Volleyball
- 2018 — Volleyball