July 3, 2007

Cleveland, Ohio - The University of California Irvine received the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association (D1-AAA ADA) All-Sports trophy for the 2006-07 year. UC Irvine was the top-ranked Division I-AAA institution in the 2006-07 U.S. Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings.

The Anteaters were led by their national championship in men's volleyball and their third place showing in baseball. UC Irvine also scored in women's golf (19th), men's swimming (25th), women's tennis and swimming (33rd) and men's golf (58th).

"The members of the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association are delighted to present the All-Sports trophy to the top collegiate sports program in Division I-AAA," says 2007-08 Division I-AAA President Lee Reed, director of athletics at Cleveland State University. "This award identifies the best all-around sports program in Division I-AAA and I am delighted to award it to UC Irvine. I congratulate their athletics administrators, coaches and student-athletes for a great perform-ance this year."

Finishing in the top-five of Division I-AAA programs is the University of California Santa Barbara in second, including a national championship in men's soccer; Pepperdine University in third; the University of Denver in fourth; and Providence College in fifth.

About Division I-AAA ADA: Now in its seventh year, the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association's mission is to enhance initiatives common to its Division I-AAA membership (the 94 Division I institutions that do not sponsor football), in particular, aspects related to their flagship basketball programs. For more information about Division I-AAA ADA, please visit www.nacda.com. Division I-AAA ADA is administered by NACDA. In its 43rd year, NACDA is the professional and educational association for more than 6,100 college athletics administrators at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. More than 2,000 athletics administrators annually attend the NACDA Convention. Additionally, NACDA administers 10 professional associations for the separate business units that report directly to the athletics director.