Shippensburg University finished eighth in the standings for the 2024-25 Dixon Trophy, the award given to the top overall athletics program in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC).
 
The results were announced by the conference office Thursday afternoon.
 
The Dixon Trophy standings are based on an average score for every PSAC Championship sport that an institution sponsors. SU posted an average score of 9.20 points in 2024-25.
 
This academic year (2024-25), the Raider women's teams sports average was 9.66, while the men's teams sports average was 8.65. Boosting the team's point total were three conference championships: men's cross country and field hockey in the fall, and men's indoor track & field in the winter.
 
Shippensburg has won the Dixon Trophy a conference-record eight times and was the first school to claim the trophy three years in-a-row, capturing it in 2003, 2004 and 2005. West Chester (five Dixon Trophies) is the only other school to win more than four times. SU has finished first or second in the Dixon Trophy standings 18 times in the 28-year history of the award.
 
The current scoring format has been in place since 2012.

Gannon won the 2024-25 Dixon Trophy, marking the third time in league history the honor has gone to the Golden Knights.
 
The trophy is named after F. Eugene Dixon Jr., former chairman of the Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education, of which 14 universities in the PSAC are members.