Elon received the Southern Conference’s McAlister Sportsmanship Award Friday, June 3 at the league’s annual summer meeting in Hilton Head Island, SC.
Inaugurated in 1980, the D.S. McAlister Award is given annually to the Southern Conference school which is judged to have exhibited the highest degree of sportsmanship in the conduct of its athletic program. The award is named after Col. D.S. McAlister of The Citadel, who served as Southern Conference secretary-treasurer for 38 years.