After an unprecedented decision by the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference to cancel the 2020 spring sports seasons due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the College of St. Scholastica earned the Jerome Kruse All-Sport Trophy for the 2019-20 season following the conclusion of the winter sports seasons.
St. Scholastica finished the winter season with a total of 83 points for an 11th-consecutive Kruse Award victory. The Saints edged runner-up University of Wisconsin-Superior by 8.5 points.
The Yellowjackets tallied 74.5 points for a third-consecutive second-place finish, while Northwestern rounded out the top three with 61 points in third place.
The champion Saints added a team championship in women's indoor track in field during the winter to finish the year with six total titles in 12 sports offered in 2019-20.
The Saints earned five fall-sport titles in men's and women's cross country, women's golf, women's soccer and volleyball.
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The Yellowjackets had three titles. They defended their title in men's indoor track and field and won titles in men's golf and men's soccer from the fall segment.
Northwestern collected a second-straight regular-season title in men's basketball. The Eagles also won a volleyball title.
Since the award's inception in 1996-97, CSS has won the Kruse Award a UMAC-best 16 times. The award, which is named after Mr. Jerome Kruse, a longtime athletic director at the former Northwestern College (Wisconsin) and Martin Luther College, travels to the full-member institution with the most points accumulated by the place finishes of the college's athletic teams in the final standings of 18 conference sponsored sports.
‘JACKET JOTTINGS: UWS also finished in second place in men's cross country and women's basketball; third in women's cross country, women's soccer, men's basketball and women's tennis; and fourth in volleyball and women's golf.
