New York, NY – The Sage Colleges finished in second place in the race for the 2012-2013 Skyline Conference Sportsmanship Award. For the second consecutive year, Yeshiva has captured the Skyline Conference’s Sportsmanship Trophy for displaying outstanding team sportsmanship during the 2012-13 academic year. The Skyline Conference instituted the Sportsmanship Trophy in 2007-08 to gauge team sportsmanship among its member schools.

Yeshiva compiled 567 points out of a possible 780 points for an overall rating of .726, while The Sage Colleges (.681) finished runner-up for the fourth time in six years.

A Team Sportsmanship Award is presented in each of the conference’s 17 sports. Yeshiva earned Team Sportsmanship Awards in six of the 10 sports in which they participated: baseball, women’s tennis, men’s cross country, women’s volleyball, men’s soccer and men’s volleyball.

St. Joseph’s-L.I. earned three sportsmanship awards in women’s soccer, women’s swimming and women’s lacrosse, while Mount Saint Mary (women’s cross country, men’s swimming) and NYU-Poly (women’s basketball, softball) each garnered a pair of sportsmanship honors.

A school earns points toward the Sportsmanship Trophy based upon a 10-point scale in each sport. Opposing coaches rate each team on a scale of 1 to 10 with a '1' being considered poor sportsmanship and a '10' being considered outstanding sportsmanship. A score of 5 to 6 is considered average. A school's scores in each sport are then added together and then divided by the total number of points that could possibly be earned.

Yeshiva also won the award in 2007-08 and 2008-09.

2012-13 SKYLINE CONFERENCE SPORTSMANSHIP TROPHY FINAL STANDINGS

Institution                   Total Points Possible Points Rating

Yeshiva                        567.0               780                  .7269

The Sage Colleges       695.0               1020                .6813

Maritime                     584.0               860                  .6790

NYU-Poly                     667.0               1000                .6670

Mount Saint Mary       747.0               1120               .6669

St. Joseph’s-L.I.            712.5               1080                .6597

Farmingdale State      683.5               1090                .6270

Mount Saint Vincent   665.5               1070                .6219

Old Westbury              616.0               1000                .6160

Purchase                     732.5               1190                .6155

2012-13 SPORT-BY-SPORT WINNERS

Men’s Soccer                          Yeshiva

Women’s Soccer                     St. Joseph’s-L.I.

Men’s Cross Country               Yeshiva

Women’s Cross Country         Mount Saint Mary

Women’s Volleyball                Yeshiva

Men’s Golf                              Purchase

Women’s Tennis                     Yeshiva

Men’s Swimming                    Mount Saint Mary

Women’s Swimming               St. Joseph’s-L.I.

Men’s Basketball                    Maritime

Women’s Basketball               NYU-Poly

Men’s Volleyball                     Yeshiva

Baseball                                  Yeshiva

Softball                                    NYU-Poly

Men’s Lacrosse                       Farmingdale State

Women’s Lacrosse                  St. Joseph’s-L.I.

Men’s Tennis                           Sage

ALL-TIME SKYLINE SPORTSMANSHIP CHAMPIONS

2012-13 Yeshiva

2011-12 Yeshiva

2010-11 Bard

2009-10 Bard

2008-09 Yeshiva

2007-08 Yeshiva