Edgewood College - Athletics

Athletics

Edgewood College offers sports for men and women. Women's athletics began in 1975, when the school was in the Wisconsin Independent Colleges Women’s Athletic Conference (WIC-WAC). The men’s athletic teams were originally in the Wisconsin Conference of Independent Colleges in 1974. In 1981, the conference changed its name to the Lake Michigan Conference. In the 1989-90 the members of the WIC-WAC women’s conference joined the Lake Michigan Conference, so that the men’s and women’s programs were in the same conference.

In the Lake Michigan Conference, Edgewood won 35 conference titles. Men’s athletics won 8 conference titles; men’s basketball in 1991-92, 1992–93, 2000–01, men’s golf in 2005, men’s soccer in 1996 and 2000, and baseball in 2005 and 2006. The women’s athletics won 27 conference titles; women’s basketball in 1991-92, 1992–93, 2000–01, 2004–05, women’s cross country in 2003, women’s soccer in 1994-2000 and 2005, softball in 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, women’s golf in 1999 and 2004, women’s tennis in 1991-97 and 2000, and volleyball 1994 and 1996.

The 2005-06 year was the last year of the Lake Michigan Conference. In 2006, all Lake Michigan conference members joined the newly created Northern Athletics Conference, an NCAA Division III conference.

Today the sport areas for the teams at Edgewood consist of the Todd Wehr Edgedome (volleyball and basketball), Breese Stevens Field, Madison (soccer), Yahara Golf Course, Madison (women's golf), the Oaks Golf Course (men's golf), McKee Farms Park, Fitchburg (tennis), Verona Little League Complex, Verona (softball), and Stampfl Field, Verona (baseball). (About Edgewood College Athletics, 1). Edgewood’s athletic teams participate in NCAA Division III (NCAA III). Edgewood College has a dance team that performs at home athletic events and during Homecoming.

In 2009 the Edgewood College cross country men's team took first place at the NAC conference meet and the women's team took second, both the best team finishes in program history.

Edgewood also offers intramural sports including basketball, volleyball, soccer, bowling, and yoga.

Edgewood's fitness center, which is free to Edgewood students and faculty, is located in the lower level of the Sonderegger Science Center. It provides equipment ranging from treadmills, ellipticals, bicycles, free weights, and selectorized weight equipment. The facility is also equipped with six televisions.