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Winning games is a side effect of the values, academic work and service learning.
Matt Sayre, Athletic Director
The NAIA
SOU belongs to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), which focuses on and tracks five core values for all of its schools: integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, and servant leadership, which involves working for the greater good. SOU recruits students who embody these core values.
Competition
SOU athletics is currently on a run of successes on the playing fields and in the classrooms that goes unmatched at SOU. For the third consecutive year, SOU finished in the top 15 in the NAIA Directors’ Cup standings and was the top finisher among public universities. In 2017-18, all of SOU’s NAIA-affiliated programs advanced to their respective national championships.
Academics
SOU was also one of three Cascade Collegiate Conference institutions to attain CCC Presidents’ Cup Academic Excellence status. SOU’s student-athletes under the CCC umbrella, including members of its basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, track and field, volleyball and men’s wrestling teams, posted a combined 3.19 GPA.
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