CLEVELAND – In the first set of the 2014-15 Division II Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings, Augustana College ranks ninth with 185 points.
 
Augustana received 25 points for finishing 33rd in the women's soccer national tournament after the Vikings earned the third seed in the NCAA Central Region Tournament, making its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2008.
 
Men's cross country earned 85 points towards Augustana's total in the Learfield Cup Standings with a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships last Saturday. The Vikings have placed in the top four at the NCAA Championships for three straight seasons, including back-to-back third-place finishes in 2013 and 2014.
 
Women's cross country earned 75 points after a fifth-place performance at the national championships last weekend. Augustana women's cross country has placed in the top five at the NCAA Championships for four straight seasons, including the 2011 National Championship and second-place finish in 2012.
 
Augustana is the highest ranked team from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference in the first edition of the Learfield Cup Standings.
 
Last year, Augustana finished seventh in the final Learfield Cup Standings, marking its fourth straight top-10 finish.
 
The final Division II fall standings will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 24.
 
The Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings is a program that honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program and celebrates those programs achieving success in many sports, both men's and women's. The program was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA Today. Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in up to 14 sports – seven men's and seven women's.