Athletics
The athletic teams for Northwestern are the Rangers. The football team is part of the Central States Football League, and the rest of the athletic teams are part of the Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA); which include the following: men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf and rodeo; while women's sports include basketball, cheerleading, cross country, golf, rodeo, soccer, softball and volleyball.
Since the football league's inception in 2000, Northwestern has won 7 of the 11 Conference championships.
On May 11, 2011, Northwestern announced that they had accepted an invitation to the Great American Conference for all sports in the 2012-2013 academic year and would begin their transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II. On July 12, 2011 Northwestern Oklahoma State University was denied admittance into the NCAA Division II Membership Process for the 2011-12 cycle.
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