About The MEAC 5/27/2025 12:00:00 AM MEAC Media Relations All-Sports Award Winners All-Time Men's and Women's All-Sports Winners Releases Points Tallies Booklet 2024-25 Release 2024-25 Tallies 2024-25 Booklet 2023-24 Release 2023-24 Tallies 2023-24 Booklet 2022-23 Release 2022-23 Tallies 2021-22 Release 2021-22 Tallies 2020-21 Release 2020-21 Tallies 2019-20 - N/A 2019-20 - N/A 2018-19 Release 2018-19 Tallies 2017-18 Release 2017-18 Tallies 2016-17 Release 2016-17 Tallies 2015-16 Release 2015-16 Tallies 2014-15 Tallies 2013-14 Tallies 2012-13 Tallies 2011-12 Tallies NOTE: No winners were named for 2019-20 due to winter championships and spring sports being suspended in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Points are awarded in a descending order beginning with 9 points for champions or first-place regular-season finishes. The second place team receives 7 points. Tied teams split the point total. The Mary McLeod Bethune and Talmadge Layman Hill Awards The Mary McLeod Bethune Award, named after the founder of Bethune-Cookman College, awards the top overall women's athletic program during the course of one full academic year. The first Mary McLeod Bethune award was giving in 1987 to Delaware State University. Hampton leads all MEAC schools with 14 Women's Awards. The men's All-Sports Award is named after the late Talmadge Layman Hill, a former player and coach at Morgan State, and former Chairman of the MEAC Steering and Planning Committee, as well as the conference's first President. Howard University was the recipient of the first Talmadge Layman Hill Award in 1972. Norfolk State holds the men's record with 13 awards.