It was another successful athletic year for Tyler Junior College.

And it was no surprise the Apaches finished high in both the National Alliance of Two Year College Athletic Administrators and the Learfield Directors’ Cup for the 2017-18 season.

TJC captured four national championships — men’s and women’s soccer and men’s and women’s tennis — and made the national tournament in baseball, men’s basketball, men’s and women’s golf, softball and volleyball.

Tyler was runner-up in the NATYCAA Cup with 159.75 points. Iowa Central won its eighth NATYCAA Cup in the Scholarship Division as the Tritons tallied 179 points. Barton (Kansas) Community College finished third with 138 points.

First established in 2003-04, the NATYCAA Cup recognizes the outstanding overall programs in two-year colleges from throughout the entire country. Each college is allowed to score points from their top-five programs per gender in the highest level of competition within their division. Each sport is treated equally so that the champion of each sport earns 20 points toward their NATYCAA Cup total (second place finishes earn 19 points, third place earns 18 points, etc.).

Rounding out the top 10 were Iowa Western (130.5), South Plains (Texas) (126.5), College of Southern Idaho (103.5), Central Arizona (103), Monroe (New York) CC (99.5), Western Texas (88.5) and Cloud County (Kansas) (83.5).

TJC finished fourth in the Learfield Directors’ Cup. Iowa Central was first at 186, followed by Rowan College at Gloucester County (New Jersey) (181), Mount San Antonio College (California) (175), Tyler (166.75), Herkimer County (New York) (164), Suffolk County (New York) (158.5), Sierra (California) (153.5), San Joaquin Delta College (California) (149.5), Onondaga (New York) (149) and Orange Coast College (California) (148).

The Learfield Cup honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program, achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. Began in 1993-94 for Division I by National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and USA Today, it was expanded in 1995-96 to include Division II, III and the NAIA and later to the NJCAA.