LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference announces the Austin College ‘Roos as the winner of the SCAC Trending competition for the week of Monday, September 22 through Sunday, September 28.
The ‘Roos accumulated 245 points this week to earn the first place spot. It was a close race between AC and the defending winners, the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs, who put up 230 points for a second-place finish.
The Trinity Tigers continued to move up the chart, marking 142 points and finishing in third place this week to knock Southwestern University out of the top three for the first time.
TLU has continued to see large increases on social media, gaining more followers on both Twitter and Instagram than any other school in the SCAC.
Points were tallied by hashtag usage on Twitter and Instagram, with one point awarded for every time the school's designated hashtag was used in a tweet and two points each time a it was used in an Instagram picture taken at a school-sponsored sporting event.
Austin College will nominate one or more student-athletes to gain access to the SCAC Instagram account, using it to post photos from sporting events over the weekend. The students that will be taking over the account will be announced Thursday morning and they will have access to @scac_sports on Instagram through Sunday evening.
