MCLEAN, Va., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital One
Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF), an official NCAA® Corporate
Champion, today announced the final women's standings for the
Capital One Cup, which is awarded to the best men's and women's
Division I athletics programs in the country. Capital One
congratulates Stanford University for
winning the women's Capital One Cup for the second consecutive
season, with a record 152.5 points.
Stanford will be awarded the Capital
One Cup trophy during this year's ESPY award ceremony on
July 11th at 9PM EDT. The school, which will also receive
$200,000 toward student-athlete
scholarships, won national championships in soccer and water polo
during the 2011-12 season. Across the 20 women's sports
represented in the Capital One Cup, the Cardinal had nine top-10
finishes aside from the two national championships, including:
basketball, cross country, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics,
outdoor track and field, rowing, swimming and diving and tennis,
illustrating the growth in collegiate athletic opportunities for
female student athletes since the birth of Title IX on June 23, 1972.
Stanford outlasted Pac-12 rival
UCLA (110 points) for the title, as the
Bruins held the early lead after the Capital One Cup's fall
standings, thanks to its volleyball national title and No. 7 finish
in the final soccer coaches' poll. Alabama (100 points),
which finished in third place in the Capital One Cup standings,
made a late–season run at the trophy, highlighted by national
championships in softball and golf this spring. Sitting
outside the top 20 in the Capital One Cup standings in late May,
the Crimson Tide bolted to their best finish, topping last year's
finish in which they tied for 18th place. Rounding
out the top 10 were LSU, Duke, Oregon,
USC, Cal, Florida and Maryland.
Below are the official Capital One Cup final standings for the
2011 – 2012 season, with the top-10 point earners in women's
athletics listed. The complete standings can be found at
CapitalOneCup.com/standings or Facebook.com/CapitalOneCup.
Women's
Capital One Cup Final Standings
|
Rank
|
School
|
Points
|
1
|
Stanford
|
152.5
|
2
|
UCLA
|
110
|
3
|
Alabama
|
100
|
4
|
LSU
|
92
|
5
|
Duke
|
83
|
6
|
Oregon
|
80
|
7
|
USC
|
77
|
8
|
Cal
|
72
|
9
|
Florida
|
65
|
10
|
Maryland
|
62
|
"It was another exciting race for the Capital One Cup trophy
and, once again, Stanford proved to be
too tough," said Capital One Cup Advisory Board member Jennie Finch, a two-time Olympian and member of
the 2001 Arizona team that won the NCAA
softball national championship. "With their national
championship in water polo this spring, the Stanford women capped off a dominating year and
everyone associated with the Cardinal athletics program should be
proud. The magnitude of their achievement is even more
significant given that it occurred during the 40th
anniversary of Title IX, through which an award like the Capital
One Cup was made possible."
"Congratulations to Stanford for
reclaiming the Capital One Cup trophy in very impressive fashion,"
said Roger Ferguson, Vice President
of Advertising and Sponsorships at Capital One. "We're
excited to crown the Cardinal women's program as the best during
the 40th anniversary of Title IX. By creating the
Capital One Cup we wanted to shine a spotlight on women's college
athletics and help promote its continued growth in
popularity."
"Stanford is very excited to repeat
as the women's Capital One Cup winner, especially in the year Title
IX celebrates its 40th anniversary," said Bob Bowlsby, Stanford Director of
Athletics. "Stanford has a long,
proud history of being a leader in women's athletics and this award
helps demonstrate that. Thank you to Capital One for your
continued support of collegiate athletics."
Highlights from the spring athletics season:
- Stanford claimed the water polo
title for the second year in a row
- Alabama won its first-ever national
championships in women's golf and softball
- Northwestern lacrosse took home its
seventh national title in eight years
- Florida won its second consecutive
tennis championship, defeating top-seeded UCLA
- In total, 99 schools earned points in the Capital One Cup
women's standings in 2011-12
This is the second year of the Capital One Cup. Schools
earn points based on their teams' top-10 finishes in NCAA Division
I championships and in final official coaches' polls across 19
men's and 20 women's sports as they compete to win the Capital One
Cup trophy and a combined $400,000 to
fund scholarships for student-athletes. The race for the men's
Capital One Cup is once again going down to the wire with the
upcoming College World Series determining the winner.
The Capital One Cup winners will be honored at the ESPY Awards
in July. Last year the University of
Florida won the men's Capital One Cup and Stanford University claimed the women's Capital One
Cup. Beyond Finch, other Capital One Cup Advisory Board members
include Barry Larkin, Lisa Leslie, Doug
Flutie, Brandi Chastain,
Rece Davis and Clark Kellogg.
About Capital
One
Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a
financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital
One, N.A. and Capital One Bank (USA), N. A., and ING Bank, fsb, had
$216.5 billion in deposits and
$294.5 billion in total assets
outstanding as of March 31, 2012.
Headquartered in McLean, Virginia,
Capital One and ING Direct offer a broad spectrum of financial
products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial
clients. Capital One, N.A. has approximately 1,000 branch locations
primarily in New York, New Jersey,
Texas, Louisiana, Maryland,
Virginia and the District of Columbia.
A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol "COF" and is included in the S&P 100
index.
Capital One, an NCAA Corporate Champion, began its affiliation
with college sports with the sponsorship of the 2001 Capital One
Florida Citrus Bowl (now the Capital One Bowl) and ESPN's Capital
One Bowl Week. In addition, Capital One sponsors the ABC College
Football Halftime Report, Capital One All-America Mascot team,
Capital One Academic All-America Program, and supports all 89 NCAA
Championships including the Division I Men's and Women's Basketball
Championships, and numerous other collegiate athletics
programs.
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Contact: Chris O'Neill, 804-284-5443
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