2025  Learfield Directors' Cup Standings

BABSON PARK, Mass.—The Babson College Department of Athletics and Recreation extended its stretch of finishing among the best 50 NCAA Division III institutions in the nation to four years by placing 50th in the 2025 LEARFIELD Directors' Cup standings. The Beavers were 40th, 44th and 49th in 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively.
 
With approximately 430 Division III colleges and universities, the LEARFIELD Directors' Cup is awarded annually to the nation's best overall collegiate athletics program. Each institution is awarded points in a predetermined number of sports for men and women.
 
The Division III program began in 1995-96 by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and USA TODAY, and it has since grown into a highly recognized mark of distinction among collegiate institutions.
 
Accumulating 349 points, the Beavers recorded their fifth-best finish in department history (highest placement of 23rd in 2016-17), including an impressive 223 points between four teams in the spring.
 
Among the 12 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) institutions, Babson placed second behind sixth-ranked MIT.
 
Men's tennis made history by advancing all the way to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinal round for the first time in program annals. Babson knocked off Stevens and Bowdoin before falling to top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The Beavers also dethroned conference powerhouse MIT by capturing the league title.
 
Babson women's tennis alongside both men's and women's lacrosse teams all advanced to the round of 32 in their respective NCAA Tournaments. Women's tennis beat UMass Boston after earning an at-large bid, men's lacrosse won its third straight league title before downing Western Connecticut State as host of an NCAA Tournament game for the first time, and women's lacrosse defeated Worcester State as an at-large selection.
 
Despite not scoring in the winter, the Beavers started the year strong with men's soccer advancing to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinal round for the first time since 1991 and field hockey continuing its impressive postseason run by reaching the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the fifth consecutive season.
 
Babson also had individual athletes compete in NCAA men's cross country, women's tennis and men's track & field championships, including senior Olivia Soffer (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and junior Matia Cristiani (San Salvador, El Salvador) winning back-to-back doubles national titles.
 
Graduate student Anthony Rodriguez (Prairie View, Ill.) ran in both the NCAA Championships for cross country and track & field, while senior teammate Julian Ivarra (Plano, Texas) joined Rodriguez in Terre Haute, Indiana, last November for the cross country race.
 
Men's and women's alpine skiing also sent both of its teams to the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) Championships. The men placed second after winning the MacConnell Division title for the first time since 1993, while the women were third.