About Texas Lutheran Athletics

 

Texas Lutheran Athletics - A Force in the NCAA Division III and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Texas Lutheran University is a proud member of the NCAA Division III, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, and in football only,
the American Southwest Conference.

TLU started its transition from the NAIA and the NCAA Division II in 1999 and made the official transition into NCAA Division III for the
2002-03 athletics seasons.

The Bulldogs played as member of the NAIA up to the 2001-02 athletics seasons and had dual membership in the NAIA and NCAA Division II
from 1996 to 2002.

The Bulldogs were full members of the NCAA Division III's American Southwest Conference from 2000-2013. Affiliate membership in the ASC started
in 1998 with the sport of football. TLU returned to the ASC as an affiliate in football for the 2017 season. TLU remains an affiliate member of
the ASC in football only.

The Bulldogs joined the NCAA Division III's Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference for the start of the 2013-14 athletics seasons. Seventeen
of TLU's 19 intercollegiate sports compete in the SCAC. (Football competes in the ASC.)

The list of TLU Athletics accomplishments includes:


12 National Championships overall in our history*

(including the 2019 NCAA Division III National Championship in Softball)

 

61 NCAA DIII Top 10 Finishes

(counting individuals and teams, and including a fourth-place finish from Gerrit Twitero in the outdoor high jump, a 2023 sixth place finish from the TLU 4x100 relay team, 2019 national championship. 2021 national runner-up and 2022 third-place finishes from TLU Softball team, 2019 national runner-up in the outdoor shot put, Garrett Garza, the 2018 national runner-up baseball team, and the 2018 national runner-up men’s outdoor 4x100 relay team)

 

100 NCAA Division III National Championship Appearances

(including 2023 national championship appearances by Men's track and field and playoff appearances by softball and volleyball as well as 2022 playoff showings by softball, men’s track & field, and men’s golf individual Chase Maus)

 

80 Conference Championships

(TLU Softball added their 9th straight SCAC regular season title in 2023, TLU Baseball won their first outright SCAC regular season title in 2023, and TLU Volleyball won their first SCAC Tournament in 2022)

 

58 CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-Americans

(including 2022 Men's Soccer Academic All-American Luis Green and 2023 Softball Academic All-Americans Sydney Ouellette and Ashlyn Strother)

 

288 Playing All-Americans

(including Tyler Post of Baseball, Caelee Clark, Serena Gonzalez, and Ashlyn Strother in Softball, Gerrit Twitero (high jump), Bryce Powell-Chimene (4x100), Weston Guzman (4x100), Elijah Jefferson (4x100), Wyatt Wilson (4x100) in Men's track and field, United Soccer Coaches All-American Luis Green and D3Football.com All-American Aaron Sotelo in 2022-23 and Jack Manke, Men's Soccer, in 2023-24)

 

3 NCAA Elite 90 Awards

(Riley Schaefer in 2018, DeAnna Hernandez in 2019, and Chassety Raines in 2021 were given these awards as the most outstanding student-athletes at the DIII Baseball and Softball World Series, respectively.)

 

* TLU All-Time National Champions:

2019 Softball - NCAA DIII

2017 Men's Indoor Track & Field - Marquis Brown, 400 meters

2010 Women's Outdoor Track & Field - Briana Aiken, long jump

2008 Women's Outdoor Track & Field - 4x100 relay

2007 Women's Indoor Track & Field - 4x400 relay

1999 Women's Golf - Elizabeth Hoffman, NAIA

1991 Men's Golf - Cameron Beckman, NAIA

1976 Women's Volleyball - AIAW-II

1975 Women's Volleyball - AIAW-II

1975 Football - NAIA-II

1974 Football - NAIA-II

1967 Men's Golf - John Bohmann, NAIA


In addition:

  • Women's Track & Field has sent 83 student-athletes to the NCAA DIII Track & Field National Championships (indoor and outdoor championships combined).
  • The 2017-18 athletics year produced a pair of NCAA DIII national runner-up finishes - from the TLU Baseball Team and the TLU Men's Track & Field 4x100 Meter Relay Team.
  • The 2011 Men's Golf Team recorded a national finish of third.
  • TLU student-athletes have claimed 2,359 Academic All-Conference Awards since 2002.
  • Seven Olympians (including gold medalist Eun Chul Lee in rifle shooting and silver medalist Laurie Flachmeier Corbelli in women's volleyball) have been enrolled at TLU.
  • In 2017, TLU Softball's Amanda Lochte was named the CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year for NCAA DIII Softball and Kelly Jurden earned the honor in 2022.

 

With the addition of Acrobatics and Tumbling for the 2022-23 athletics season, TLU now has nine men's sports and ten women's sports at the varsity level for NCAA Division III. The complete list for TLU intercollegiate
sports includes:


Women's Sports (10)
Soccer
Volleyball
Cross Country
Basketball
Softball
Indoor Track and Field
Outdoor Track and Field
Golf
Tennis
Acrobatics & Tumbling


Men's Sports (9)
Soccer
Cross Country
Football
Basketball
Indoor Track and Field
Outdoor Track and Field
Baseball
Golf
Tennis