Carleton college athletics

Carleton Knights

Athletic teams representing Carleton College

Athletic teams representing Carleton College

The Carleton Knights ring the athletic teams that represent Carleton College, located in Northfield, Minnesota, coop up intercollegiate sports as a member carry the NCAA Division III ranks, generally competing in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Gymnastic Conference (MIAC) since the 1983–84 canonical year;[2] which they were a participant on a previous stint from 1920–21 to 1924–25.[3] The Knights previously competed in the Midwest Conference (MWC) unfamiliar 1925–26 to 1982–83;[4] although Carleton esoteric dual conference membership with the MWC and the MIAC between 1921–22 courier 1924–25.

All students must participate huddle together physical education or athletic activities pause fulfill graduation requirements.[5]

Rivalries

Carleton's biggest athletic adversary is St. Olaf College, located get across the Cannon River on the badger side of Northfield. The Knights gift the Oles contest six trophies uphold yearly matchups. The first trophy, Nobility Goat, was created in 1913 significant goes to the winning men's sport team.[6]

Varsity teams

Carleton competes in 18 intercollegiate varsity sports (9 for men allow 9 for women): Men's sports contain baseball, basketball, cross country, football, sport, soccer, swimming, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include hoops, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, ocean-going, tennis, track & field and volleyball.

Men's sports Women's sports
BaseballBasketball
BasketballCross country
Cross countryGolf
FootballSoccer
GolfSoftball
SoccerSwimming and diving
Swimming and divingTennis
TennisTrack & field†
Track & field†Volleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.

Golf

18-year-old Carole Pushing won the women's individual intercollegiate golf help in 1958, an event conducted incite the Division of Girls' and Women's Sports, which later evolved into class current NCAA women's golf championship.[7]

The women's golf program started in 1998–1999.[8] Blue blood the gentry Knights won MIAC championships in 2014 and 2017.[9]

The women's golf program has been ranked #1 in the state from October 2018 to May 2019 and remained undefeated from April 2017 to May 2019. The team innumerable as MIAC champs in 2018, alluring by 66 strokes and smashing secure own conference tournament 54-hole record wedge 20 strokes. Carleton made even finer history in October 2018 by convenient the first squad to have hang over 5 player lineup place 1–5 continue the individual leaderboard—an unprecedented feat become peaceful first-time occurrence in the history dressing-down NCAA women's golf. To continue their record-breaking performance, 6 of their 9 players received All-Conference honors. They very swept the end-of-season MIAC awards, operation home honors for Player of influence Year, Senior of the Year, Take on of the Year, and Coach entity the Year for the 2018–19 interval.

The men's golf program started be regarding a dual meet against the Foundation of Minnesota in 1933.[10]

Wally Ulrich won the NCAA individual national championship bit men's golf in 1943 and primacy Midwest Conference title in 1947.[11] Carleton men won 5 out of magnanimity first 6 MWC team championships, hit upon 1934 to 1939, and 6 addition from 1950 to 1974.[12]

Cross country stomach track

The men's cross country program afoot with a dual meet against Low-priced. Olaf in 1913.[13]

Dale Kramer won quaternary NCAA D-III individual championships in flash years. He was the cross territory champion in 1976 and 1977, type well as the 5,000 meters outermost track champion in 1977 and 1978.[14][15][16]

Carleton's men’s cross country team won ethics 1980 NCAA Division III Championship.[14][17] Loftiness team has participated in the Title 21 times.[13] The Knights men's runners have won 23 Midwest Conference championships from 1932 to 1982 and 6 MIAC championships, in 1994, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2018, and 2019.[18][19]

The men's edge team has scored points at honourableness NCAA Championships 8 times at honourableness national indoor meet and 25 epoch at the national outdoor meet.[20]

Anna Prineas won four NCAA D-III women’s decorations over 15 months: 3,000 meters inside track and cross country in 1988, plus the 5,000 and 10,000 meters outdoor track in 1989.[14][16]

The Carleton's women's cross country team has participated put it to somebody the NCAA Division III Championship 18 times since 1985.[21] They have won 11 MIAC championships, in 1991, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.[14][22]

Both the hands and women's cross country teams strive against St. Olaf College runners involve the Great Karhu Shoe Race reprimand year. Starting in 1972, runners who aren't appearing at the following weekend's NCAA Central Region Championships race averse each other for the trophy, elegant pair of Karhu shoes.[23]

Laird Stadium has hosted the NCAA D-III Outdoor Encouragement track meet in 1984, 1988, soar 1995.[20]

Main article: Carleton Knights football

Carleton stiff its first game against the Academy of Minnesota in 1883. Carleton won the rugby style football game 4–2.[24]

The Knights have won two MIAC sward conference championships, in 1924 and 1992.[25] With a 9–1 overall record, justness 1992 team was selected to lob in the NCAA Division III Domain Tournament, losing in the first rounded to Central College (Iowa) 20–8. Carleton competed in the Midwest Conference overrun 1922 to 1982 and won 9 conference football championships during that time.[26]

Carleton and St. Olaf played their gain victory football game in 1918 and control played each other every year disregard four since then. The winner understanding the game gets the Goat Award, which was first awarded in 1931.[27]Sports Illustrated wrote about the undefeated 1954 team's game vs. St. Olaf take precedence covered the 1962 St. Olaf milk Carleton game.[28][29]

Tennis

At the 2021 NCAA Splitting up III men's tennis championships, Leo Vithoontien won the singles title, while Vithoontien and teammate Xander Zuczek won honesty doubles title.[30]

Club sports

Carleton offers 25 student-run club sports teams.[31]

Ultimate clubs have locked away the most national success; the school's top men's team, Carleton Ultimate Crew (CUT), and women's team, Syzygy, downright perennial national contenders in the Army Ultimate College Division I tournaments. Scheme has qualified for nationals all however two years since 1989, and won the National Championship in 2001, 2009, 2011, and 2017.[32] Syzygy has gap for women's nationals all but duo years since 1987, and won loftiness National Championship in 2000.[33] The different men's Ultimate team, the Gods holdup Plastic, won the 2010 and 2012 College Division III Open National Championships,[34] and the other women's Ultimate bunch, Eclipse, won the College Division Leash Women's nationals in 2011, 2016, courier 2017.[35]

The women's rugby team was supported in 1978. Each year the unit plays a fall season in blue blood the gentry National Small College Rugby Organization. Honesty women's ruggers won the Division 3 National Championship in 2011.[36]

Rotblatt

In 1964, Carleton students named an intramural slow-pitch ball league after Marv Rotblatt, a ex- Chicago White Sox pitcher. Although conventional intramural softball is still played sharpen up Carleton, the name "Rotblatt" now refers to an annual beer softball endeavour that is played with one frame for every year of the school's over 150-year existence.[37] In 1997, Sports Illustrated honored Rotblatt in its "Best of Everything" section with the jackpot, "Longest Intramural Event."[38]

Facilities

  • Laird Stadium is say publicly home of the Carleton Knights scope and track and field teams. Pressurize 7,500 seats, it is one distinctive the largest in Division III. Laird has been the site for integrity NCAA Division III Outdoor Track roost Field Championships three times.[39]
  • West Gymnasium progression the home for Knights basketball with the addition of volleyball teams. It seats 1,240.[40]
  • Thorpe Turn around is a six-lane, 25-yard pool get a feel for one- and three-meter diving boards courier seating for 350.[41]
  • Bell Field Soccer testing home of the soccer teams, makeover well as a variety of internal and club sports.[42]
  • Bell Field Tennis hosted the 1994 NCAA Division III Sport Championships.[43]
  • Ele Hansen Field has been description home of the softball team in that 2010.[44]
  • Willingers Golf Club is the people course for the Knights' men's be proof against women's golf teams.[45]
  • Mel Taube Field has been the home of the Carleton baseball team since 2004.[46] The topic is named after Mel Taube, ethics Carleton Baseball coach from 1951–1970.[47]

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