CLEVELAND, Ohio — Hutchinson Community College earned national recognition for overall athletic excellence in the 2024-25 Ron Case Cup presented by Daktronics, finishing 13th in the country among two-year colleges.
The Blue Dragons totaled 97.5 points in the annual competition, which ranks the top athletic programs in the National Alliance of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA) Scholarship Division. Hutchinson was one of three Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) schools to place in the top 15, joining fourth-place Barton Community College (163 points) and eighth-place Cowley College (129.5 points).
Two additional KJCCC schools, Johnson County (17th, 80.5 points) and Butler (26th, 62.5 points), also cracked the top 30.
The Ron Case Cup, formerly known as the NATYCAA Cup, awards points based on a college’s top five team finishes per gender at the highest level of postseason competition. First-place finishes earn 20 points, with a sliding scale down to one point.
This marks the seventh year the award has been sponsored by Daktronics and the first under its new name, honoring former NATYCAA president Ron Case, who led the organization’s Cup initiative from its creation in 2004 until his retirement in June 2024.
Iowa Western claimed the top spot with 179.5 points, followed by College of Dupage (165 points) and Iowa Central (164.5 points) to round out the top three.