Wilkes University - Athletics

Athletics

The Wilkes University Colonels compete in NCAA Division III athletics. The university is a member of the Middle Atlantic Conference in all sports except wrestling. In wrestling, the Colonels compete in the Metropolitan Wrestling Conference. Wilkes' teams compete in 14 intercollegiate sports: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, women's tennis, men's tennis, volleyball and men's and woman's cross country

The softball team won the Middle Atlantic Conference region in 2006.

The football team were Middle Atlantic Conference Champions for the 2006 season. -The following link provides a reliable source to confirm this statement about the 2006 Wilkes Football team http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/825.asp

The men's tennis team won 3 individual MAC Championship titles as well as 1 Doubles title on top of making a consistent appearance in the MAC Team Tournament which will be a record other teams will try to accomplish as well.

From the 1975 to 2000, the Wilkes' wrestling team was a Division I squad, wrestling in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association.

In the 2007-2008 Men's Basketball Season they went 13-12 overall and finished fourth in the conference. They made the playoffs and lost in the first round to the top seeded team, Desales.

In 2007 the Wilkes University Colonels Baseball Team were Freedom Conference MAC Champions, led by Coaches: Folek, Bavitz, Klinetob, Lipton, and Toomey

Its most recent All American is Florida Native Felipe Queiroz in 2006 in Wrestling.

In the mid- to late 1960s the Wilkes College football program ran off 32 straight wins—the fourth longest streak in college football history at the time. It began in the fourth game of the 1965 season and ended in 1969. From a 34-0 victory over Ursinus to a 13-7 loss to Ithaca. Rollie Schmidt coached the Colonels from 1962-81. His teams went 90-73-1 winning five MAC titles, two Lambert Bowls (best small college team in the East) and one Timmie Award (best small college team in the country).

In 2008 both the men's soccer team and the women's field hockey team competed in the ECAC Southern Region Tournament.

In 2008 the women's field hockey team was ranked 18th in the nation by the NCAA

In 2008 field hockey players Kerry Battersby and Gina Elmy were both honored by womensfieldhockey.com. Battersby was honored as a third team All American player, while Elmy included in the All-Rookie squad.