HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, May 22, 2022) – There will be two new banners hanging from the rafters of DeVos Fieldhouse in Holland when students return to Hope College for the start of a new academic year in August.
One is to commemorate the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament championship won by the Flying Dutch in March. It was the school’s third such national title.
The other is to spotlight the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association’s Commissioners Cup, emblematic of overall supremacy by Hope College athletic teams in league competition. The school captured its 38th such crown for Academic 2022, the most by any MIAA member, thanks in part to a record 12 regular-season conference titles in team competition. This included outright championships in both men’s and women’s cross country, golf, tennis and outdoor track and field. The Flying Dutchmen shared honors with Trine in both football and women’s basketball.
Hope’s took top MIAA honors in both the men’s and women’s overall standings, and its 155 points were 20 more than second place Calvin. The Orange and Blue repeated as Commissioners Cup winners, as the league didn’t have an award the past two years due to COVID health protocols restricting the number of events held in Academic 2020 and 2021. Either the Flying Dutch/Dutchmen or the Knights have won this trophy since Albion captured it in Academic 1979.
With two individual exceptions, the Hope College athletic season has ended. Nick Hoffman and Ana Tucker will compete in individual events during the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships next weekend at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, located off of Lake Erie east of Cleveland.
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