2024-2025 Honors Page

The Trojans picked up a host of awards and honors for the 2024-2025 year. TU garnered 185 NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors, 149 academic all-league nods, 109 all-league awards, 59 league athlete-of-the-week awards, 62 CSC Academic All-District honors, 12 CSC Academic All-Americans, one CSC NAIA Academic All-American of the Year recognition, nine NAIA National Athlete-of-the-Week honors, 10 individual league champions, one league player of the year, four league newcomer of the year awards, 29 NAIA All-Americans, one NAIA National Athlete of the Year and four individual NAIA National Championships.

TU claimed three team championships, with its women's cross country team securing a 12th-straight Crossroads League Championship, the women's golf program winning a CL Championship for a fifth time in the past eight years and the baseball program taking home a Crossroads League Championship for a fourth-straight year.

Taylor's teams tasted plenty of success, with football winning its first four games for its best start since 1999, reaching nine wins in a season for the first time since 1999, scoring 50-or-more points in three-straight games for the first time in program history, setting a single-game scoring record with 91 points at Madonna and setting a single-game rushing record with 459 yards against No. 7 Marian. Women's soccer also made history with 17 goals in a 17-0 win over Defiance College and took down No. 10 Marian for the highest-ranked win in program history. The TU women's cross country team also posted its fastest 5K and 6K times in program history. The men's basketball team scored a Top-25 win by taking down No. 22 Indiana Wesleyan and the women's basketball team secured its 900th all-time win, while the competitive cheer program posted its best five scores in program history and reached its highest national ranking in program history. The TU baseball team recorded its best 25-game start (21-4) and 30-game start (25-5) in program history, secured its best regular season record (41-8) ever, it's highest win total ever (47) and its highest in-season ranking (No. 9) ever, secured a No. 1 seed in the NAIA Opening Round for the first time ever, and knocked off RV Grand View, RV Ottawa-Arizona and took three-of-four games from RV Saint Thomas. The men's lacrosse program matched its best start through four (3-1) and seven (5-2) games in program history and posted its highest on-field win total in program history (7) and the women's indoor track program logged its best-ever finish at Nationals by ending fifth in the team standings. The women's cross country, indoor track and outdoor track program was honored as the NAIA USTFCCCA Women's Program of the Year.

Taylor coaches also reached milestones, with Quinn White recording his 1,500th all-time head-to-head win with the women's cross country program, Kyle Gould logging his 700th head coaching victory with the TU baseball program and Doug Gower reaching his 400th victory as a head softball coach.

The TU coaches were also been recognized for their excellent work, with Quinn White being named the Crossroads League Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year for the 12th-straight time and the USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year for a fifth time. Aaron Mingo was also recognized for his work on the sidelines with the football team, being named the AFCA NAIA Region 2 Coach of the Year, as well as the MSFA Mideast League Coach of the Year. Kyle Gould was named the Crossroads League Baseball Coach of the Year for an eigth time.

TU also had 12 teams ranked or receiving votes in a NAIA Poll, with football, men's and women's cross country, competitive cheer, women's indoor track, baseball, women's golf, women's outdoor track and men's outdoor track cracking the Top-25, and women's soccer, men's lacrosse and men's golf receiving votes.

Taylor had 15 teams get a taste of postseason play, with men's and women's cross country, women's soccer, volleyball, men's and women's indoor track, competitive cheer, men's basketball, men's and women's outdoor track, men's and women's golf, softball, men's lacrosse and baseball all competing in a league championship event.

Eight teams advanced to compete at the NAIA Nationals, with women's cross country finishing second, women's indoor track taking fifth, women's outdoor track ending sixth, men's cross country finishing eighth, men's outdoor track taking 19th, women's golf finishing 23rd and men's indoor track ending 33rd. Baseball also competed in the NAIA National Tournament Opening Round.

For a 13th-straight year, each of Taylor's varsity teams were named NAIA Scholar-Teams for posting team grade-point averages of 3.0 and above. Taylor had 11 teams ranked inside the top-25 in team GPA for their respective sport and saw women's basketball (3.84) and women's soccer (3.78) rank among the top-100 teams in the NAIA in team GPA. To read more about Taylor's academic accomplishments, click here.

Fans can track all the individual honors awarded to Trojan student-athletes and coaches throughout the year by checking out this page. Fans can also read the press release associated with the award, or check out the player's bio page by clicking on the link of the player's name or the award.

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