1) CAL BAPTIST – Although Cal Baptist finished sixth in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup (for the 2010-11 season) for all NAIA schools, behind Azusa Pacific (first) and Fresno Pacific (third), this award is about a collective work of achievements over the 2011 year, not the 2010-11 school calendar. With that said, we couldn’t dismiss Cal Baptist’s accomplishments, especially when the Lancers continued to win this fall despite moving from NAIA to NCAA Division II. In all, Cal Baptist won two NAIA national titles (women’s swimming in the winter and women’s golf in the spring), had one NAIA national runner-up finish (women’s softball in the spring), and won four National Christian College Athletic Association national titles (men’s golf, men’s division I soccer, women’s division I soccer, and women’s volleyball), and finished runner-up in NCCAA women’s cross country this fall. Besides their national championships, what also set Cal Baptist apart from other schools was their dominance in two conferences. In the winter and spring of 2011, the Lancers won three Golden State Athletic Conference titles when they were in NAIA (women’s basketball, baseball, and softball). After stepping up to the NCAA Division II Pac West Conference this past fall, Cal Baptist kept winning, taking four of the conference’s five fall sports titles (men’s and women’s cross country and men’s and women’s soccer) for the most dominant showing by any school in the league. The only title the Lancers didn’t win was volleyball, but after placing third of 10 teams in the conference standings they won the NCCAA title to cap the most dominant sports year of any Christian college or university in 2011. 2) AZUSA PACIFIC (CALIF.) 3) FRESNO PACIFIC (CALIF.) 4) CALVIN COLLEGE (MICH.) 5) AUGUSTANA (S.D.) 6) ABILENE CHRISTIAN (TEXAS) 7) SHORTER (GA.) 8) LIBERTY (VA.) 9) INDIANA WESLEYAN 10) DALLAS BAPTIST (TEXAS)
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