{"id":1744,"date":"2022-05-25T19:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2022-05-25T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:01:28","slug":"gannon-wins-its-first-dixon-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"Gannon wins its first Dixon Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ba69bd0382286421b2efd19ddc0e9b53\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>PSAC Communications\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ben Matos<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ERIE &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>The Gannon University Golden Knights claimed the honor as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference\u2019s top program by winning the 2021-22 Dixon Trophy, the league announced <span class=\"zm_inLnk\" data-value=\"2022-05-25 16:00:00\">Wednesday<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time Gannon has won the trophy since first joining the league.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 25th time the PSAC has recognized a Dixon Trophy recipient, given annually to the institution that accumulates the top score based on results of conference playoffs and\/or regular-season records.\u00a0The trophy is named in honor of F. Eugene Dixon, Jr., former chairman of the Board of Governors of Pennsylvania&#8217;s State System of Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>The league has not given a Dixon Trophy to a program since 2018-19 due to COVID-19 athletic restrictions in the 2019-20 season and the 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n<p>The award is given to the program which generates the top average point value among each PSAC Championship sport it sponsors.\u00a0Each sport champion earns 18 points &#8211; based on the league&#8217;s membership total &#8211; and descending point values are awarded for respective placement.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon topped the rest of PSAC competition with an average point total of 12.97.<\/p>\n<p>Slippery Rock came in second with an 11.56 average, while Mercyhurst was third with an average of 11.32.<\/p>\n<p>Placing fourth and fifth were Millersville (11.16) and Edinboro (11.09), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Gannon got key point totals from their 2021-22 PSAC Champion Women\u2019s Golf program, was the PSAC runner-up in volleyball, received 16.5 points for wrestling, and 16 points for men\u2019s soccer. Their full point totals and averages per gender are listed in the 2021-22 Standings linked above.<\/p>\n<p>Shippensburg leads all PSAC institutions with eight Dixon Trophies, while West Chester has received five. Bloomsburg and Lock Haven have three apiece, while Cal is a two-time winner. Kutztown, Millersville and Slippery Rock have all won one Dixon Trophy.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSAC Communications\u00a0 Ben Matos ERIE &#8211;\u00a0The Gannon University Golden Knights claimed the honor as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference\u2019s top program by winning the 2021-22 Dixon<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,39,488,23],"tags":[503,489],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gannon","category-news","category-psac","category-top-news","tag-gannon","tag-psac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}