2003-2004 CUNY Athletic Conference Commissioner's Cup Point Standings  

Hunter Holds Cup For 6th Time In Seven Seasons

Hunter College was presented with the Commissioner’s Cup for the sixth time in seven years at the 2004 CUNYAC Scholar-Athlete Award Ceremony, as the most successful Senior College athletic program for the 2003-04 academic year. The Hawks were followed once again by the College of Staten Island, who finished thirty points behind. CSI and Hunter have finished 1-2 in the final yearly points race each of the last seven years, with the roles reversed only once (following the 2000-01 season).

This year, Hunter captured nine of CUNYAC’s 18 senior college tournament championships (women’s tennis, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, women’s swimming and diving, women’s basketball, men’s indoor track and field, men’s volleyball, women’s outdoor track and field and men’s outdoor track and field). Staten Island won three CUNYAC tournaments and five regular season titles, easily outdistancing John Jay College for second place. Interestingly, John Jay managed a third-place Commissioner’s Cup standing benefiting only from one title, in men’s basketball for the regular- season, among a bevy of second and third place points in eight additional sports.

It was also a year of firsts for NCAA Tournament appearances for three schools. In the five sports that earned CUNYAC teams an NCAA berth, four were first-timers. On the heels of the Hawks third consecutive women’s basketball crown, Hunter was the exception there. But the CSI softball and Lehman men’s basketball teams were able to play on the National Stage for the first time, despite having storied programs at the respective schools. CCNY, the oldest school in the CUNY system had the initial pleasure of competing in NCAA’s in two sports – women’s volleyball and men’s soccer.

Senior College Final Standings
#	School	PT
1	Hunter College	136
2	College of Staten Island	106
3	John Jay College	58
4	Lehman College	45
5	CCNY	44
6	Medgar Evers College	33
6	Baruch College	33
8	City Tech	15
9	York College	13
10	Brooklyn College	1

Senior Colleges Tournament Champions:
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY............................HUNTER
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY..................................HUNTER
WOMEN’S TENNIS.............................................HUNTER
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL....................................CCNY
MEN’S SOCCER.................................................CCNY
WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING.........................HUNTER
MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING..............................STATEN ISLAND
CHEERLEADING.................................................MEDGAR EVERS
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL....................................HUNTER
MEN’S BASKETBALL..........................................LEHMAN
WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD....................MEDGAR EVERS
MEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD..........................HUNTER
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL...........................................HUNTER
WOMEN’S SOFTBALL.........................................STATEN ISLAND
MEN’S BASEBALL .............................................STATEN ISLAND
WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD................HUNTER
MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD......................HUNTER
MEN’S TENNIS....................................................BARUCH

Senior Colleges Regular Season Champions:
WOMEN’S TENNIS..............................................HUNTER
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL.....................................CCNY
MEN’S SOCCER..................................................CCNY
WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING..........................STATEN ISLAND
MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING...............................STATEN ISLAND
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL.....................................HUNTER & STATEN ISLAND
MEN’S BASKETBALL..........................................JOHN JAY & STATEN ISLAND
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL...........................................HUNTER
WOMEN’S SOFTBALL..........................................STATEN ISLAND
MEN’S BASEBALL ..............................................STATEN ISLAND
MEN’S TENNIS.....................................................BARUCH

CUNYAC Commissioner's Cup Champions (1998-2004)
Year	Senior College Champion	Points
1998	Hunter College	155
1999	Hunter College	160
2000	Hunter College	115
2001	College of Staten Island	110
2002	Hunter College	129
2003	Hunter College	165
2004	Hunter College	136

Community Colleges
BMCC & HOSTOS Share CUNYAC’s Top School Honor

Following Hostos’ two CUNYAC Championships, both basketball teams reached the NJCAA Region XV playoffs. Remarkably, the teams reached the region semifinals during the women’s first season and the men’s second season as varsity programs. Queensborough’s spring was quite fruitful as well with the Tigers’ baseball and softball teams also entering the Region XV tournaments, and the softballers reaching the final game, leaving them one win shy of a berth in the National eight-team tournament.

On the All-American front, 26 CUNYAC athletes earned the prestigious honor, including Kingsborough’s top tennis duo, who reached the championship match at the National Junior College Tournament and the men’s 4x400 Meter Relay team that won the National title at NJCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championship. As a team, Kingsborough led the two other CUNYAC colleges at that event with a seventh place men’s finish. At the NCJAA Outdoors, a whopping 20 community college student-athletes earned all-american accolades.

Community College Standings
#	School	PT
1	BMCC	20
2	Hostos	20
3	Queensborough	15
3	Bronx	15
5	Kingsborough	5

CUNYAC C.C. Commissioner's Cup Champions (1998-2004)
Year	C.C. Commisioner’s Cup Champion	Points
1998	Borough of Manhattan C.C.	25
1999	Borough of Manhattan C.C.	45
2000	Borough of Manhattan C.C.	25
2001	Borough of Manhattan C.C.	35
2002	Borough of Manhattan C.C.	35
2003	Bronx C.C. tie   Queensborough C.C. tie	25 25
2004	Borough of Manhattan C.C. tie   Hostos C.C. tie	20 20

2003-04 CUNYAC Commissioner's Cup Year In Review

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