ORLANDO, Fla. – For the first time in ten years, Nova Southeastern’s women sit atop the Sunshine State Conference as winners of the 2025-26 SSC Mayors’ Cup.
The Mayors’ Cup, which awards the best athletic department overall athletically throughout the school year, is awarded annually to both a Men’s and Women’s department amongst the 11 member institutions of the SSC.
Mayors’ Cup scoring is based on regular season finish for sports with conference standings and championship finish for cross county, track, golf, rowing, and swimming.
Once points are awarded, it is averaged by the number of sports that school competed in to get a final number.
Nova Southeastern’s women finished with 74 points across ten SSC sponsored sports for an average of 7.4 points per sport. NSU finished ahead of runners-up Tampa and Embry-Riddle, which ended with an average of 6.833 and 5.850 points, respectively.
Highlighting the Sharks’ Mayors’ Cup victory was soccer, golf and basketball which each earned at least nine points with soccer clinching 11 points as the highest single point-getter amongst NSU’s teams.
On the other side, the NSU Men finished third in the SSC Mayors’ Cup standings with a respectable 6.786 points across seven sports. The Sharks slotted in just behind Florida Southern with 6.889 points, and SSC Mayors’ Cup winner, Tampa, with seven points exactly.
SSC Women’s Mayors’ Cup Standings
- Nova Southeastern (74 points, 10 sports, 7.400 average)
- Tampa (82 points, 12 sports, 6.833 average)
- Embry-Riddle (58.5 points, 10 sports, 5.850 average)
- Florida Tech (34 points, 6 sports, 5.667 average)
- Eckerd (46 points, 9 sports, 5.111 average)
- Florida Southern (54.5 points, 11 sports, 4.955 average)
- Lynn (44.5 points, 10 sports, 4.450 average)
- Palm Beach Atlantic (44 points, 10 sports, 4.400 average)
- Saint Leo (43 points, 10 sports, 4.300 average)
- Barry (46.5 points, 11 sports, 4.227 average)
- Rollins (37 points, 9 sports, 4.111 average)
SSC Men’s Mayors’ Cup Standings
- Tampa (56 points, 8 sports, 7.000 average)
- Florida Southern (62 points, 9 sports, 6.889 average)
- Nova Southeastern (47.5 points, 7 sports, 6.786 average)
- Rollins (41 points, 7 sports, 5.857 average)
- Lynn (49 points, 9 sports, 5.444 average)
- Florida Tech (35 points, 7 sports, 5.000 average)
- Barry (39.5 points, 8 sports, 4.938 average)
- Palm Beach Atlantic (39 points, 8 sports, 4.875 average)
- Embry-Riddle (38 points. 8 sports, 4.750 average)
- Saint Leo (35 points, 8 sports, 4.375 average)
- Eckerd (21 points, 7 sports, 3.000 average)
The Mayors’ Cup is the third won by the NSU women, and the first since 2015-16. It is also the fourth overall Mayors’ Cup for the NSU Athletic Department after the NSU Men won it in 2023-24.
For a history of the Sunshine State Conference’s Mayors’ Cup, click HERE.
The Shark Women begin their Mayors’ Cup defense in August with the beginning of the 2026-27 academic year.