UNC Asheville Earns 2018-19 Big South Institutional Sportsmanship Award

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - UNC Asheville has been declared the winner of the Big South Conference's annual Institutional Sportsmanship Award for the 2018-19 athletic season.

Asheville receives the honor for the first time since the award was established in 2005-06. The league office officially announced the honor for UNC Asheville on Thursday, June 27, 2019.

The overall winner is determined on a system that recognizes the highest percentage of the maximum points an institution is capable of receiving for each team award. The team awards were voted on by Big South student-athletes following each conference championship, and eight different institutions were honored for the 2018-19 campaign, which are listed below.

UNC Asheville, which was honored with a league-high seven team sportsmanship awards in 2018-19, was tops among the Big South membership with a 36.13 percentage of the maximum points received in its sponsored league sports.

The Bulldogs were voted by Big South student-athletes as the top sportsmanship team in women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, women's indoor track & field, women's tennis (co-winner) and men's and women's outdoor track & field.

**Story by Big South Conference office**

UNC Asheville (7)
Women's Cross Country
Women's Soccer
Men's Soccer
Women's Indoor Track & Field
Women's Tennis (co-winner)
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Women's Outdoor Track & Field

Gardner-Webb (4)
Volleyball
Men's Golf
Women's Golf
Baseball

USC Upstate (2)
Men's Cross Country
Men's Indoor Track & Field

Radford (2)
Men's Basketball
Women's Basketball

Campbell (2)
Men's Tennis
Women's Lacrosse

Winthrop (1)
Women's Tennis (co-winner)

Longwood (1)
Softball

Monmouth (1)
Football

University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics

UNC Asheville Earns 2018-19 Big South Institutional Sportsmanship Award

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