CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Lebanon Valley College Flying Dutchmen put together one of the best fall seasons in the history of the college and are 61st out of all NCAA Division III schools in the Learfield Directors' Cup fall standings after the completion of all fall sport Championships at the Division III level.
 
The Learfield Directors' Cup 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 the NCAA Championships. The Dutchmen earned 84.50 points behind the men's and women's cross country teams competing at the NCAA Championships in November. The men's team finished 22nd to earn 52 points, while Coyla Bartholomew qualified as an individual for the women's team to earn 32.5 points. The fall point total is the most the Dutchmen have recorded since the fall of 2010, when they scored 120. LVC went on to finish 96th for the 2010-11 academic year, scoring a school-record 193 points. LVC's best-ever finish in the Directors' Cup standings was in 1998, when they scored 130 points to finish 49th.
 
Overall, LVC posted one of the best fall seasons in the Middle Atlantic Conference as every team competed in postseason play for the first time since 2013. The Dutchmen posted an outstanding 52-36-8 record this fall in the five sports that have head-to-head competition. That included a 21-12-4 record in conference games and an impressive 25-10-3 record in home games.
 
Lebanon Valley became the first school to sweep the men's and women's cross country Middle Atlantic Conference titles since Elizabethtown in 2012. Both teams also finished third at the Mid-Atlantic Region Championships. The Dutchmen football squad finished 6-5 overall and 6-3 in conference play. LVC qualified for the Centennial-MAC Bowl Series for the third time in four years as the conference's third seed. The Dutchmen dropped a hard-fought 31-13 decision at Ursinus in the bowl game. The field hockey squad posted an 11-8 overall record and a 4-3 mark in MAC Freedom play. The Dutchmen qualified for the conference tournament as the fourth seed and went to a shootout with top-seeded and 10th-ranked Stevens Institute of Technology in the semifinals.
 
The men's soccer team finished with a 10-4-6 record and 3-1-3 mark in conference play and qualified for the conference tournament as the second seed. The Dutchmen defeated FDU-Florham 6-3 in the semifinals before falling at top-seeded Stevens 1-0 in the final on a goal in the 84th minute. The women's soccer team had one of the best seasons in program history with a 13-4-2 overall record and 4-2-1 mark in conference play. The squad qualified for the MAC Freedom Championships for the first time as the third seed. They gave second-seeded and eventual conference champion Stevens all they could in the semifinals, dropping a heartbreaking 2-1 decision on a goal with less than 20 seconds left in regulation. The women's volleyball team posted a 12-15 overall record and 4-3 mark in conference play, qualifying for the MAC Freedom tournament as the fourth seed. They dropped a 3-0 decision at top-seeded Misericordia University in the semifinals.

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