AUSTIN, Texas – The 2025-26 Division I NACDA Learfield Director’s Cup has once again gone to the University of Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
Texas Athletic Director Chris Del Conte wrote on social media<\/a>, “Winning The Directors Cup is the Crown Jewel for an athletic department as it encompasses success of all of our sports. So proud of the students, coaches & staff. However, we couldn\u2019t accomplish this feat let alone five times without \u00a0Longhorn Nation! Texas is a reckoning.”<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The Directors’ Cup was developed by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and USA Today and looks at athletics departments and ranks on a points system that factors in various sport programs.<\/p>\n Men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, volleyball and women’s soccer are all required while 14 others, regardless of gender, are the school’s highest-socring programs based on NCAA championship finishes.<\/p>\n National titles for Texas in rowing, men’s swim and dive and softball as well a second place finish for men’s tennis and third place finishes in women’s basketball, women’s swim and dive and beach volleyball helped UT secure the Directors’ Cup again.<\/p>\n It’s the third consecutive Directors’ Cup for Texas and the school has won five of the last six.<\/p>\n The Source: Information from Daily Texan, Texas Athletic Director Chris Del Conte X post and NACDA website.<\/p>\n UT Austin<\/a>Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – The 2025-26 Division I NACDA Learfield Director’s Cup has once again gone to the University…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,163,154,2471],"class_list":["post-355992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-education","tag-sports","tag-ut-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}