GREENVILLE, S.C. - The Conference Carolinas has unveiled its 2024-25 Winter Team Messick Sportsmanship Award winners.

The University of Montevallo won the award in men's swimming while King University won the award in women's swimming and men's swimming. Emmanuel received the award for men's basketball while Belmont Abbey won the award in Women's basketball, men's and women's indoor track and field and men's wrestling. 

The Conference Carolinas Directors of Athletics implemented the process by which the Conference Carolinas Messick Sportsmanship Awards are determined. A student-athlete and coach from each institution vote separately upon the sportsmanship of all conference competitors. Each institution then submits those votes to the conference office where the averages are then calculated to decide the winner for each conference-sponsored sport.

The Team Messick Sportsmanship Awards are named after John D. Messick, who was the President of former conference member East Carolina from 1947-59. Messick truly championed sportsmanship and even wrote a book entitled, "Personality and Character Development."