Lake Erie Storm football
| Lake Erie Storm | |
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| University | Lake Erie College |
| Conference |
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (until 2017) Great Midwest Athletic Conference (from 2017) |
| NCAA | Division II |
| Athletic director | Reid Guarnieri |
| Location | Painesville, Ohio |
| Varsity teams | 17 |
| Football stadium | Jack Britt Memorial Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Jerome T. Osborne Family Athletic and Wellness Center |
| Baseball stadium | Braggs Field at Painesville Kiwanis Recreation Park |
| Softball stadium | Diamond 9 at Painesville Kiwanis Recreation Park |
| Soccer stadium | Jack Britt Memorial Stadium |
| Lacrosse stadium | Jack Britt Memorial Stadium |
| Mascot | Stormy |
| Nickname | Storm |
| Colors | Green and White |
| Website | www |
The Lake Erie Storm are the athletic teams that represent Lake Erie College, located in Painesville, Ohio, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sporting competitions. The Storm compete as members of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC), although Lake Erie will move its varsity sports to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) in 2017. Lake Erie College was a member of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) of Division III through the 2007–08 academic year but completed the process of moving to Division II at the conclusion of the 2008–2009 academic year.
All of Lake Erie's teams participate in the GLIAC with the exception of men's lacrosse, which competes in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.
Since joining NCAA Division II, Lake Erie student-athletes have earned 55 All-American honors and five conference championships along with three individual National Champions. The 2013–14 academic year has proved to be the most successful in the institution's history with six teams (baseball, men's lacrosse, men's swimming, men's indoor and outdoor track & field, and wrestling) earning top 25 national rankings or NCAA tournament bids. The program also recorded its highest-ever finish in the Learfield Directors' Cup Standings (79th), which paced it near the top 25% of all D-II programs in the country.
At various times in its history prior to joining the AMCC, Lake Erie competed as a member of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the National Small College Athletic Association (NSCAA). The College’s softball team won the 1991 NSCAA National Championship.
A newly heated rivalry has begun with Ashland University, a two-hour drive away in Ashland, Ohio.
The official nickname of the College’s athletics teams is the Storm. The name was chosen to replace the nickname Unicorns when the College added men’s intercollegiate athletics beginning in 1988. Their mascot is Stormy.
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