Cloud County Finishes 23rd In 2023-24 Daktronics Cup Standings

For the seventh-straight year, the Cloud County Community College athletic department has finished inside the top 25 of the annual National Alliance of Two Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA) Daktronics Cup Standings following a 23rd-place finish in the 2023-2024 standings. 

Earning a total of 73 points in the National Junior College Athletic Association Scholarship Division, the T-Birds finish the year as one of six Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference schools to finish inside the top 25 including runner-up Barton (173 points), fifth-place Cowley (138.5 points), eighth-place Hutchinson (104.5 points), 13th-place Johnson County (90 points) and 16th-place Colby (85.5 points). The KJCCC/NJCAA Region VI is one of only two regions to place three schools inside the top 10 of the NJCAA Scholarship division, joining Region VI (Iowa Community College Athletic Conference) which had Iowa Western (first), Iowa Central (sixth) and Indian Hills (ninth) all finish inside the top-10. 

The 23rd-place finish follows up last year's 13th-place finish as CCCC earned 88 points in the 2022-23 season as Cloud County has finished inside the top 25 of the NJCAA Scholarship Division each year dating back to the 2017-2018 Daktronics Cup. 

Colleges in each division are allowed to use their top-five finishes per gender at their highest level of competition to earn points for the Daktronics Cup. The champions of each competition score 20 points, second place scores 19, third place 18, etc. This is the sixth year that Daktronics has sponsored this award in conjunction with the National Alliance of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA). 

About NATYCAA: Now in its 36th year, NATYCAA is the professional organization of two-year college athletics administrators and membership open to all two-year institutions from throughout the country. NATYCAA is administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), which is in its 59th year. For more information on NACDA and the 18 professional associations that fall under its umbrella, please visit www.nacda.com.