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ACC Championships Carolina Track and Field 13-Time Southern Conference Men's Indoor Champions 1931 • 1932 • 1934 1935 • 1937 • 1939 1940 • 1941 • 1942 1949 • 1950 • 1951 1952 14-Time Southern Conference Men's Outdoor Champions 1926 • 1930 • 1933 1934 • 1935 • 1938 1939 • 1940 • 1942 1943 • 1947 • 1948 1949 • 1950 Three-Time ACC Men's Indoor Champions 1955 • 1995 • 1996 15-Time ACC Women's Indoor Champions 1988 • 1989 • 1990 1991 • 1993 • 1994 1995 • 1996 • 1997 1998 • 1999 • 2000 2001 • 2003 • 2004 13-Time Southern Conference Men's Cross Country Champions 1926 • 1927 • 1928 1929 • 1931 • 1934 1936 • 1937 • 1938 1939 • 1940 • 1941 1946 Nine-Time ACC Men's Cross Country Champions 1956 • 1957 • 1960 1961 • 1962 • 1963 1971 • 1979 • 1985 Five-Time ACC Men's Outdoor Champions 1955 • 1992 • 1994 1995 • 1999 14-Time ACC Women's Outdoor Champions 1988 • 1989 • 1990 1992 • 1993 • 1994 1995 • 1996 • 1997 1998 • 2001 • 2002 2003 • 2004 Three-Time ACC Women's Cross Country Champions 1994 • 1999 • 2003 The Atlantic Coast Conference. A Tradition of Excellence...Then, Now and Always. Consistency. It is the mark of true excellence in any endeavor. However, in today's intercollegiate athletics, competition has become so balanced and so com- petitive that it is virtually impossible to maintain a high level of consistency. Yet the Atlantic Coast Conference has defied the odds. Now in its 57th year of competition, the ACC has long enjoyed the reputation as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate athletic conferences in the nation. And that is not mere conjecture, the numbers support it. Since the league's inception in 1953, ACC schools have captured 114 national champion- ships, including 60 in women's competition and 54 in men's. In addition, NCAA individual titles have gone to ACC student-athletes 154 times in men's competition and 100 times in women's ac- tion. The Virginia Cavaliers won the league's first track and field national title claiming the women's AIAW indoor crown in 1981. In 2008, Florida State captured its third-straight men's track and field national championship, winning the outdoor title in by a six-point margin. The three wins by the Seminoles are the only NCAA Track and Field national championships won by an ACC school in the league's 55-year history. In addition, Florida State's women's team has laid claim to three NCAA Track & Field na- tional titles, an outdoor crown in 1984 and back- to-back indoor championships in 1985 and 1986. In 1984, the Seminoles captured five individual event titles, including a pair of relay champion- Page 2 ships. Randy Givens, a six-time NCAA champion at Florida State, collected four titles (100m, 200m, 400m relay and 1,600m relay) in 1984 leading the Seminoles to the team title. Since 1953, member schools have garnered 123 individual titles in both men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, while teams have finished in the top five at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships a combined 26 times. The 2009 Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field seasons brought the ACC 12 individual ti- tles, 4 top-five team finishes at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships and 72 All-America honors in 49 combined events. At the 2009 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship in College Station, Texas, the ACC saw four individual national championships with the Florida State men and women taking third and eighth places, respectively. Six ACC schools finished among the top 30 teams for the indoor season. The NCAA Outdoor Championships ended the season in Fayetteville, Ark., earning the ACC eight individual champions and 38 All-America accolades. The men of Florida State tied for sec- ond while the Seminole women took home fourth for the ACC's highest team finishes. Four teams finished in the top 30 nationally. The Florida State men and women swept the ACC Indoor and Outdoor Championships in 2009, though the men tied with Virginia for the outdoor title. Through the history of ACC track and field, the Maryland men have won the most titles obtaining a combined 52 indoor and outdoor league crowns including consecutive indoor titles from 1956-1980 and successive outdoor champi- onships from 1956-1979. Legendary head coach Jim Kehoe led the Terrapins to 30 of those confer- ence championships. Clemson's Bob Pollock is second on the men's list as he has led the Tigers to 20 of their 22 conference championships. On the women's side, North Carolina has won 29 indoor and outdoor titles all coming under the tutelage of head coach Dennis Craddock. Craddock leads all active coaches in the ACC with 40 conference championships which include 32 women's titles and eight men's titles (four out- door, two indoor and two cross country). In 2007, Florida State's Bob Bramen joined Craddock and Miami's Amy Deem as one of only three coaches in the ACC to win multiple indoor and outdoor titles. Since 1903, ACC schools have produced 23 Rhodes Scholars who have also lettered in athlet- ics while at their respective institutions. Of those 23 student-athletes, 10 have competed in the sport of track and field and cross country. In the last two years, three student-athletes have been named Rhodes Scholars including Wake Forest's Mi- chelle Sikes (2007), Duke's Charles Salmen (2007) and Florida State's Garrett Johnson (2006). Other ACC Track and Field Rhodes Scholars include Virginia's Benjamin Baker (1922), Charles Gleaves (1926), Murat Williams (1935), Luke Harvey Poe (1938) and James B. Whitlach (1947), North Caro- lina's Karen Stevenson (1979) and Wake Forest's Maria Merritt (1987).