Contact: Brock Reisler, Assistant Executive Director, breisler@midwestconference.org
 
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – For the third consecutive year and the 11th time in school history, Grinnell College has won the Midwest Conference Men’s All-Sports Award and, in the process, has kept the Ralph Shively Cup.
 
The Pioneers won five Midwest Conference championships in 2025-26, including five of the last six championships contested. Sweeping all the winter titles and winning twice in the spring, Grinnell claimed MWC crowns in basketball, swimming and diving, indoor track and field, tennis and baseball to highlight its accumulation of 67.5 points.
 
Second place belonged to Illinois College (53.5 points). The Blueboys won the outdoor track and field title, and earned top three finishes in football, baseball and indoor track and field.
 
Cornell College took third place (44.5 points), highlighted by runner-up finishes in indoor track and field and outdoor track and field.
 
Fourth place went to Lake Forest College with 44 points. The Foresters won the MWC title in soccer, and finished in the top third in football, basketball, swimming and diving and tennis.
 
Monmouth College came in fifth place, as the Fighting Scots totaled 43.5 points. Monmouth won the MWC football title and took second in basketball.
 
Lawrence University, highlighted by a cross country title, took sixth with 34 points.
 
The men’s all-sports standings rounded out with Beloit College (32 points), Ripon College (29 points) and Knox College (19 points).
 
All-Sports points are awarded on a descending scale: 9-8-7, etc., for most sports. Football uses a 10-9-8, etc., format, while tennis is scored on a 7-6-5, etc., basis.
 
The All-Sports trophies are named in honor of Ralph Shively, former Chair of the Mathematics Department at Lake Forest College. Shively was actively involved in the MWC beginning in 1974 as a Faculty Athletic Representative before serving as Conference Commissioner from 1982 to 2004.