Sportsmanship Awards

Purpose

The MAC Sportsmanship Award was created as a way to recognize those member schools that have the best demonstrated ideals of sport such as fairness, civility, honesty, respect and responsibility.  Good Sportsmanship begins with the student-athletes supporting their fellow team members and opponents.  For this reason, the Middle Atlantic Corporation Student Athlete Advisory Committee (MAC SAAC) has decided that the award's winner should be chosen by the student athletes of the 16 MAC schools and awarded to the most sportsmanlike institutions. 

Voting

Voting for the MAC Sportsmanship Award will be performed by all teams the MAC sponsors.  Teams may only vote for those schools within their specific conference (Commonwealth v. Freedom).  Each team's SAAC representatives are to note the three conference schools in that sport that receive the most votes.  At the end of the year, the results are added up for all sports by gender.  The SAAC representatives send Ken Andrews a ranking of three teams who received the most votes.

The Awards

There will be four awards:    Commonwealth men and women; Freedom men and women.

Timeline

November 14, 2006   Deadline for fall coaches to submit sportsmanship rankings (1-3) to SAAC representatives.

March 14, 2007        Deadline for winter coaches to submit sportsmanship rankings (1-3) to SAAC representatives.     

April 20, 2007         Deadline for spring coaches to submit sportsmanship rankings (1-3) to SAAC representatives. 

April 25, 2007           Deadline for SAAC representatives  to submit sportsmanship rankings (1-3) Ken Andrews. 

April 30, 2007               Ken Andrews notifies sportsmanship winners.

May 8, 2007            Plaques are awarded to the SAAC representative of the winning school at annual meeting (Wilkes).