| First-ever All-Decade/All-Time Teams for Cross Country, Soccer and Volleyball |
Birmingham, AL—The Gulf South Conference officially closes the door on another exciting decade of collegiate athletics with the release of the GSC Fall Sports All-Decade Teams (2000-09).
The six-sport team is the first of three such squads to be released the following two weeks, including the Men’s and Women’s Basketball All-Decade Teams on July 15th and the Spring Sports All-Decade Teams (excluding women’s golf) on July 22nd.
The initiative marks the first time that the Conference has compiled an All-Decade list for sports other than football. Previously, the GSC has recognized football all-star teams from the 1980’s, the first Quarter Century (1971-1975) and the 1990’s.
Players could only be nominated for the All-Decade Team if they competed in at least two seasons during the decade and were also named to the All-GSC First Team at least once. Each squad was broken up into First and Second Teams and Players and Coaches of the Decade were selected. Honorable Mentions were also recognized in special circumstances; for example, those student-athletes that competed in just one season and were an All-GSC First Team member during the past decade. The league office decided to designate the men’s and women’s soccer squads as “All-Time Teams” because the GSC has only sponsored the sport since 1996.
The Conference also recognized the best Teams of the Decade using a formula based on how a school’s team finished in the All-Sports Trophy standings the past 10 years. Harding University Sports Information Director Scott Goode spearheaded the computation of each school’s team-point-total based on the simple formula of All-Sports points earned divided by All-Sports points possible during the decade. The resulting score is the percentage of All-Sports points earned during the decade per sport. The formula included only the seasons that each school sponsored the respective sport. A score of 100 indicates that the team earned the maximum number of points (i.e. - won the conference championship) in each season in the decade. *--Because soccer was an all-time team, Teams of the Decade were not included.
The complete list of teams can be found by clicking the links below.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY ALL-DECADE TEAM
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY ALL-DECADE TEAM
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL ALL-DECADE TEAM
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