MCLEAN, Va., June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital One
Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF), an official NCAA® Corporate
Champion, today announced that Stanford
University women's athletics program is the winner of the
inaugural Capital One Cup. The school will be formally honored at
the ESPY Awards televised by ESPN on July
13, during which the Capital One Cup trophy will be
presented with a $200,000 donation to
fund student-athlete graduate-level scholarships. Launched in 2010,
the Capital One Cup honors NCAA Division I athletics programs for
their cumulative on-field performance across multiple men's and
women's sports.
"Our university is very proud of our athletics program and we
are pleased that our women's sports have achieved first place in
the Capital One Cup," said Stanford Director of Athletics
Bob Bowlsby. "On behalf of our
coaches and student-athletes we are pleased to accept this award.
Thank you to Capital One and its affiliated companies for their
support of collegiate athletics."
Highlighted by second-place finishes in soccer, tennis and
rowing, the Cardinal women's athletics program earned a total of
121 points in the race for the Capital One Cup to hold off
runner-up Texas A&M University,
which charged up the standings this spring to finish nine points
behind. The competition literally went down to the wire. The
Aggies earned 40 points for their first-place finish at the track
and field championships, the final NCAA Division I women's
championship of the season, while the Cardinal finished tied for
8th and earned six points.
"We'd like to congratulate Stanford
University for winning the inaugural Capital One Cup," said
Capital One Chief Marketing Officer, Bill
McDonald. "The competition was fierce and all the teams
fought until the very end, but the Stanford Cardinal prevailed
through their excellence and consistency, earning six Top 5
finishes and scoring points in nine of the 13 sports represented in
the Capital One Cup. Stanford's performance this season is
the true embodiment of what the Capital One Cup stands for and they
have set the bar high for future Capital One Cup winners."
Stanford showed consistency in a
variety of sports by earning points in soccer, volleyball,
basketball, swimming and diving, lacrosse, softball, rowing, tennis
and outdoor track and field. Texas
A&M earned 112 cumulative points across the fall, winter
and spring seasons as a result of national championships in
basketball and outdoor track and field, and points in golf, indoor
track and field and swimming. Rounding out the Top 5 in the final
women's Capital One Cup standings are the University of California, the University of Florida and the University of Notre Dame.
The final stretch of the race for the Capital One Cup took place
during the spring athletics season with six sports in play to
determine the champion. Highlights from the Capital One Cup during
the 2010 – 2011 athletics season include:
- Sixty-four women's programs earned points
- Stanford placed in the Top 10 in
nine championships, including soccer, volleyball, basketball,
swimming and diving, lacrosse, tennis, softball, outdoor track and
field and rowing, the most Top 10 finishes of any program
- Texas A&M is the only school to
win more than two national championships in the 13 sports
represented in the Capital One Cup
Below are the official women's Capital One Cup final standings
for the 2010 – 2011 athletics season, with only the Top 11 point
earners in women's Division I athletics listed.
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Women's Capital One Cup Final
Standings
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1 – Stanford (121
pts)
2 – Texas A&M (112
pts)
3 – Cal (106 pts)
4 – Florida (86 pts)
5 – Notre Dame (76
pts)
6 – USC (72 pts)
7– Arizona State (60
pts)
7 – Penn State (60
pts)
9 – North Carolina (53
pts)
10 – Texas (52 pts)
11 – Baylor (48 pts)
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"The Stanford women and everyone who follows the athletics
program should be proud of this accomplishment," said Capital One
Cup Advisory Board member and former Santa Clara University soccer
player, Brandi Chastain. "Winning
the Capital One Cup requires commitment, dedication and hard work
at all levels of a Division I college athletics program and the
Cardinal rose above all other schools to claim the trophy.
With nine Top 10 finishes they are extremely deserving of
this award."
The Capital One Cup men's winning athletics program will be
announced after the conclusion of the NCAA College World Series® in
late June and will be formally honored at the ESPY Awards televised
by ESPN on July 13. The current men's
standings and the full women's final standings can be found at
CapitalOneCup.com/standings as well as at
Facebook.com/CapitalOneCup.
About Capital One
Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a
financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital
One, N.A. and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., had $125.4
billion in deposits and $199.3
billion in total assets outstanding as of March 31, 2011. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad
spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small
businesses and commercial clients. Capital One, N.A. has
approximately 1,000 branch locations primarily in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana,
Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. A Fortune
500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange
under the symbol "COF" and is included in the S&P 100
index.
Capital One, an NCAA Corporate Champion, began its affiliation
with college sports with the sponsorship of the 2001 Capital One
Florida Citrus Bowl (now the Capital One Bowl) and ESPN's Capital
One Bowl Week. In addition, Capital One sponsors the ABC College
Football Halftime Report, Capital One All-America Mascot team,
Capital One Academic All-America Program, and supports all 89 NCAA
Championships including the Division I Men's and Women's Basketball
Championships, and numerous other collegiate athletics
programs.
NCAA and College World Series are trademarks owned or
licensed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. All
other licenses or trademarks are property of their respective
holders.
Contact: Sukhi Sahni,
703-720-2390
sukhi.sahni@capitalone.com
SOURCE Capital One Financial Corporation