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OVERALL

  • Nine consecutive top 25 finishes in the United States Sports Academy’s Division III Director’s Cup standings. Wartburg’s athletic program has placed as high as seventh during its current run of success
  • Individual or team national championships for 15 consecutive years, including wrestling and indoor and outdoor women’s track and field titles in 2009
  • 12 consecutive Iowa Conference men’s all-sports championships
  • Seven-time Iowa Conference women’s all-sports champions
  • Seven consecutive Iowa Conference trophies for overall men’s and women’s sports

FOOTBALL

  • Ranked No. 10 by D3Football.com/No. 11 by American Football Coaches Association to end 2008
  • Eight-time national playoff qualifiers – four appearances since 2002
  • 11-time Iowa Conference champions
  • Sixth-best winning percentage in Division III in last 15 years
  • 16 consecutive winning seasons and years with seven-or-more wins
  • Twelve CoSida/ESPN The Magazine academic All-Americans since 1998
  • At least one all-Iowa Conference honoree each year since 1982

VOLLEYBALL

  • Five-time national qualifiers
  • Eight-time Iowa Conference runners-up
  • 20-or-more wins in six of last 11 years
  • 12 consecutive years of two-or-more all-conference selections

SOCCER

  • Three-time Iowa Conference overall/four-time IIAC postseason tournament men’s champions
  • Six consecutive national tournament berths for men
  • Women’s program is defending IIAC champions/Eight consecutive conference postseason tournament appearances
  • Men’s record of 111-31-7 in last seven years
  • Women’s record of 113-59-7 in last nine seasons

BASKETBALL

  • Six-time national qualifiers for men
  • Nine-time national qualifiers for women
  • 21 conference titles for men
  • Five conference titles for women
  • Men’s program was youngest in Iowa Conference to reach 1,000 wins all-time
  • Men have had at least one all-conference honoree annually since 1963
  • Women have had at least one-or-more all-conference picks annually since 1984

WRESTLING

  • Seven national titles since 1996, four national duals titles since 2003
  • First or second in nation in 15 of last 17 years
  • 17-time defending Iowa Conference champions
  • 132 consecutive dual wins against IIAC competition
  • Four 20-or-more dual win seasons in last five years
  • At least two individual national champions in each of last seven seasons

BASEBALL

  • Won 12 Iowa Conference championships over course of last 13 seasons
  • Head coach Joel Holst became 28th member of Division III 500-win club during 2008
  • Two-time NCAA Division III Central Region champions
  • Two NCAA Division III College World Series berths, including final four in 2005
  • At least one all-Iowa Conference selection for 12 straight seasons

SOFTBALL

  • Three-time Iowa Conference champions
  • Three league postseason tournament titles over past four years with 11-2 record
  • Seven straight 30-wins-or-more seasons
  • Three regional top three finishes over last four seasons with runner-up honors in 2006 and 2007
  • NCAA Division III College World Series berth, 2003

CROSS COUNTRY

  • 14-time Iowa Conference men’s champions
  • 10-time conference women’s champions
  • Top 10 nationals’ finishes for men/six top 10 nationals’ finishes for women
  • NCAA Division III Central Region women’s champions, 2005/2008
  • First program in Division III to have back-to-back men’s and women’s individual national champions in same years, 2003/2004

GOLF

  • Four-time NCAA Division III women’s team national tournament qualifiers, 2005/2006/2008/2009; top 10 finishes in three of four years
  • Four-time women’s and six-time men’s Iowa Conference team champions
  • Eight of last nine years with at least one all-Iowa Conference selection for men and seven straight seasons with at least one woman honored

TENNIS

  • School record 12-dual wins for women’s program, 2007-08
  • Women’s program qualifies for first-ever Iowa Conference NCAA Division III automatic qualifier tournament, 2007-08
  • Men tied single-season dual wins mark in 2008-09 with 15-15 record

TRACK AND FIELD

  • Women have finished in the top 10 at outdoor nationals eight times since 1999/Defending national champions
  • Men have finished in the top 20 at outdoor nationals five times since 2001
  • Women have earned five top 10 team placings at indoor nationals since 2002/Defending national indoor and outdoor champions/2005 outdoor national champions
  • Men have gained three top 20 placings at indoor nationals since 2003
  • Women are the 10-time defending outdoor Iowa Conference champions
  • Women are seven-time defending indoor women’s conference champions
  • Men have won five outdoor titles and six indoor conference titles since 2002
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