UAlbany Wins 2021-22 America East Commissioner's Cup

BOSTON – The University at Albany has won the 2021-22 America East Stuart P. Haskell Commissioner’s Cup, awarded annually to the conference’s top-performing athletic department.

The Great Danes earned the Cup for the eighth time overall and first since the 2017-18 season, behind four America East titles and five runners-up performances.

Winning the Commissioner's Cup for the seventh time in the last nine years it has been awarded is a tremendous achievement that speaks to the commitment, consistency of effort, and overall excellence of our student-athletes, coaches, and staff. We are proud of the fact that our student-athletes have also consistently succeeded in the classroom with an outstanding overall department GPA of 3.13. Winning the Commissioner's Cup is a true reflection of President Rodríguez and our university leadership providing the necessary support for our student-athletes in pursuit of these outstanding accomplishments.

UAlbany Director of Athletics Mark Benson

The Commissioner’s Cup is determined by a scoring system under which programs earn points for their team’s performances, both during the regular season and in the conference tournaments for each of the league’s sponsored sports.

UAlbany earned 380 points, followed by runner-up Vermont with 331, and third-place UMBC with 284. UMass Lowell finished fourth with 269 points, followed by New Hampshire with 264, Binghamton with 263, Stony Brook with 256, Maine with 198, NJIT with 152, and Hartford with 118.

During the 2021-22 academic year, the Great Danes won league titles in women’s basketball, women’s indoor track & field, and men’s and women’s outdoor track & field. Additionally, men’s track & field finished second at the indoor championship meet, while field hockey, volleyball, women’s lacrosse, and softball each made league championship appearances.

UAlbany won its first Commissioner’s Cup during the 2004-05 school year, and won six-straight from 2012-13 through 2017-18. This season, The Great Danes won the Cup wire-to-wire, leading the league standings after each of the Fall and Winter seasons, before finalizing the victory in the spring.

Everyone in our country, including our student-athletes, has been through challenging times during the past couple of years. Bringing the Cup back to UAlbany for the first time since the 2017-18 season, following one interrupted and one incomplete year, is especially gratifying for our student-athletes, and I am extremely happy for them.

UAlbany Director of Athletics Mark Benson

2021-22 America East Commissioner's Cup Final Standings

Place	Institution	Points	Championships	Runners-Up	Regular-Season Titles
1.	UAlbany	380	WITF, WBB, MOTF, WOTF	FH, VB, MITF, WLAX, SB
2.	Vermont	331	WSOC, MSOC, MBB, MLAX, WLAX		WSOC, MBB, MLAX
3.	UMBC	284	VB, MSD, SB	WSD, MLAX	VB, SB
4.	UMass Lowell	269	MXC, WXC, MITF	WITF, MOTF, WOTF, BASE
5.	New Hampshire	264	WSD	WXC, WSOC, MSOC	MSOC
6.	Binghamton	263	BASE	MSD
7.	Stony Brook	256		MXC	WLAX, BASE
8.	Maine	198	FH	WBB	FH, WBB, BASE
9.	NJIT	152
10.	Hartford	118

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