Shippensburg University finished seventh in the standings for the 2025-26 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 Wednesday 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 9.80 points in 2025-26, up from its average of 9.20 points in 2024-25.
 
This academic year (2025-26), the Raider women's teams sports average was 9.84, while the men's teams sports average was 9.76. Boosting the team's point total were five conference championships: men's cross country and field hockey in the fall, men's indoor track & field in the winter, and men's outdoor track & field and softball in the spring.
 
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, the 2025-26 champion, has now won six Dixon Trophies and 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 29-year history of the award.
 
The current scoring format has been in place since 2012.

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.