Northwest Nazarene University Athletics

The LEARFIELD Director's Cup standings honor institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men's and women's. Began in 1993-94 for Division I by NACDA and USA Today, it was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA and, in 2011-12, expanded to the Junior/Community Colleges. Each institution is awarded points in a pre-determined number of sports for men and women. Points are given to those institutions advancing to either the NCAA, NAIA or two-year college/university championships for team sports. Individual qualifiers for national championship events (i.e. track & field or swimming) do not automatically earn points - they must place and score at the championship to register points for their institution. The overall champion is the institution that records the highest number of points in their division's Directors' Cup standings.

Currently, the NCAA Division II standings are compiled based on an institutions' results in their top 15 sports, with the caveat that four of those sports must be men's basketball, baseball, women's basketball, and women's volleyball regardless of whether or not no points were scored in any of those seasons. After those four, the next highest 11 sports scored for each institution, regardless of gender, will be used in the standings.

For the full LEARFIELD Director's Cup standings history for all divisions, visit this link.

Below is a history of Northwest Nazarene's finishes in the Director's Cup standings from year-to-year dating back when the rankings began for the NAIA in 1995-96.