Liberty has concluded their stay in the ASUN Conference and the Flames will go out on top.
At the conclusion of the league’s annual spring meetings this week, the ASUN announced that Liberty has made a clean sweep of the conference’s All-Sports trophies. Liberty has been awarded the Bill Bibb Trophy (overall all-sports champion), Jesse C. Fletcher Trophy (men’s all-sport champion), and the Sherman Day Trophy (women’s all sport champion).
Liberty has now swept all three All-Sport trophies each year the ASUN has presented the award during the Flames’ five-year run in the league. Liberty accomplished the feat for the 2018-19, 2021-22, and 2022-23 athletic seasons. The ASUN did not award any All-Sport trophies during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 athletics seasons due to the cancellation and disruption of the seasons caused by the COVID pandemic.
This past season, Liberty claimed 90.4% of possible points in the Bill Bibb Trophy race (537 of 594) finishing ahead of second-place Lipscomb (71.56%/453 of 633 points).
The Flames won the Jesse C. Fletcher Trophy with 238.5 points, finishing ahead of Kennesaw State in the Men’s All-Sport standings who had 172.5 points.
The Lady Flames won the Sherman Day Trophy with 298.5 of 315 possible points, finishing ahead of FGCU in the Women’s All-Sport standings who had 249 points.
This marks the 17th time Liberty has been awarded a conference All-Sport trophy over the past 26 seasons, two of which an award was not presented. The Flames also won the Big South Conference’s George F. “Buddy” Sasser Cup Trophy 14 times from 1997-98 through 2017-18 when Liberty left the league to join the ASUN.
During the Flames’ fifth and final season as a member of the ASUN, Liberty claimed conference titles in men’s golf, men’s indoor track & field, men’s outdoor track & field, women’s indoor track & field, and women’s outdoor track & field.
Liberty also claimed ASUN regular season titles in men’s basketball, men’s tennis, volleyball, women’s lacrosse, and women’s soccer.
July 1, 2023 will mark the first official day that Liberty will be members of Conference USA, the first FBS conference the Flames have ever been a member of. The move will also allow the reunion of the football program with the rest of the athletic sports in a conference home since the football team made the transition to the FBS level.
