Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats
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| University | Indiana Wesleyan University |
| Conference | Crossroads League |
| NCAA | NAIA Division II, NCCAA Division I |
| Athletic director | Mark DeMichael |
| Location | Marion, IN |
| Varsity teams | 18 |
| Football stadium | TBD, opening Fall 2017 |
| Basketball arena | Luckey Arena |
| Baseball stadium | Wildcat Field |
| Soccer stadium | IWU Soccer Field |
| Other arenas | Indoor Sport Complex |
| Mascot | Wesley Wildcat |
| Nickname | Wildcats |
| Colors | Red and Gray |
| Website | www |
The Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Indiana Wesleyan University. The University currently offers nine intercollegiate sports for both men and women with football and swim teams being introduced to the 2017-2018 program. The Wildcats compete in the Crossroads League and are the conference's winningest school. IWU is also a member of the NCCAA Division I and NAIA Division II.
The University has earned a national reputation for athletic excellence and in recent years, has dominated both the Crossroads League (formerly MCC) and NCCAA. IWU has won the MCC Conference Commissioners Cup a record eight consecutive years, and placed among the Top 20 in the NAIA United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup Standings nine straight years. The University was awarded the 2008 NCCAA President's Cup as the best overall athletic program in the nation, and shared the award with Cedarville University in 2009, the fourth time IWU has won the award. IWU has also won 9 national championships in the last three years alone.
The 2006-2007 school year was a record year for IWU sports, winning conference championships in 10 of the 16 MCC sports, which is a conference record. Both the men's and women's soccer and basketball teams captured MCC championships, the first school to do so. In addition, the men's golf team captured its second straight NCCAA National Championship and the women's tennis team won the NCCAA National Championship as well (the program's third overall). The men's basketball team qualified for the NAIA national tournament and advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history. However, the story of the year was the record-breaking women's basketball team, who captured the first NAIA National Championship in school history by defeating College of the Ozarks in the final. The Wildcats posted a perfect 38-0 record, becoming the first basketball team in NAIA history to go undefeated.
The Wildcats completed one of its finest athletic seasons to date during the 2007-08 season. The year started well, including MCC championships in men's (2nd in a row) and women's soccer (10th in a row), women's tennis (17th in a row), men's (3rd in a row) and women's cross country, women's volleyball (2nd in a row), and men's golf. Both the men's and women's soccer teams and the women's volleyball team (6th in a row) secured MCC Tournament championships as well. The men's soccer team posted a 14-3-1 regular season record, the best in program history, reached #6 in the NAIA national rankings (also a record mark), and won the NCCAA Midwest Regional Championship, as well as being ranked #1 in the NCCAA national poll for most of the season. The women's soccer team also won the NCCAA National Championship (the program's fourth overall) and finished with a season record of 21-2-1, the best in school history. IWU was well on its way to securing its seventh straight MCC Commissioners Cup.
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