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2021-22 Learfield Directors' Cup Division III Final Fall Standings
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The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater currently ranks No. 20 in the National Association of College Directors of Athletics' Learfield Directors' Cup Division III standings.
 
The Warhawks earned 208 points during the fall season. Johns Hopkins leads the standings with a total of 471 points and is followed by second-place Middlebury with 397.50 points.
 
UW-Whitewater earned 83 points for its football national semifinal appearance, 75 for the men's cross country team's fifth-place showing at the NCAA Championship and 50 for the volleyball team's NCAA Tournament second round bid.
 
The Warhawks are the second-highest ranked athletics program in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. UW-La Crosse is 11th with 259.50 points.
 
The Directors' Cup measures the overall athletic success of collegiate institutions. Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in up to 18 NCAA sports – nine women's and nine men's. Men's and women's basketball and men's and women's soccer must be counted among the total.
 
The Directors' Cup did not take place during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018-19, UW-W finished 15th out of 450 institutions with a total of 593.50 points for the institution's 12th consecutive top 20 finish and 11th time among the top 15 in the last 12 years.
 
In 2013-14, UW-Whitewater finished second in the Directors' Cup standings, the school's all-time best finish.
 
See below for a year-by-year list of UW-Whitewater's place in the standings.
 
1995-96: 23rd
1996-97: 90th
1997-98: 45th
1998-99: T-47th
1999-00: 15th
2000-01: 21st
2001-02: 39th
2002-03: 26th
2003-04: 25th
2004-05: 23rd
2005-06: 29th
2006-07: 32nd
2007-08: 6th
2008-09: 15th
2009-10: 15th
2010-11: 6th
2011-12: 5th
2012-13: 4th
2013-14: 2nd
2014-15: 6th
2015-16: 8th
2016-17: 6th
2017-18: 20th
2018-19: 15th