LINCOLN UNIVERSITY 2021 SOFTBALL MEDIA GUIDE
Since 2003, few teams in any sport have achieved the level of success enjoyed by the Lincoln women’s track & field team. The Blue Tigers continued the dynasty in May of 2019, when Lincoln won its second-straight NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field national title. Winners of 14 total national championships over the past 16 years, including five-straight NCAA Division II outdoor titles from 2003-2007, the Blue Tiger track & field program was honored in 2013 by being inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. Lincoln has established itself as one of the top track & field programs in all of NCAA Division II, with the men's team posting top-10 finishes in the 2019 NCAA Division II Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Both the LU men and women won MIAA titles in indoor track & Field in 2016, with the men taking the title during the 2017 outdoor season en route to finishing as the national runner-up at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Before the 2019-20 season was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lincoln men's indoor track & field team was ranked No. 1 in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's Division II rankings. The Lincoln men's golf team has also experienced the feeling of winning a championship recently, as the Blue Tigers have won seven PGA Minority Collegiate National Championship Division II tournaments. An annual golf tournament sponsored by the PGA and open to all HBCU men's golf programs, Lincoln posted wire-to-wire victories at the championship in 2013 and 2014. In 2015, Blake Lammers continued the tradition by becoming the individual champion at the PGA Minority Collegiate Championship. In 2016, Lammers also was the individual titleist at the MIAA Championships and became the first Blue Tiger to qualify for the NCAA regional since current coach Aaron Murphy accomplished the feat in 2009. Over the past nine years, 10 Lincoln athletic programs have qualified for some form of postseason competition. In 2011-12, the LU women's basketball team came within eight points of playing in the MIAA tournament championship game. In 2013, Twishana Williams became the only female runner in the MIAA to earn All-American honors. The men's basketball program has made the postseason in each of the past five years while Ryan Brown won the indoor national championship in the triple jump in March of 2019.
The women's track & field team won its 14th national championship in May of 2019. 54
Blake Lammers won the PGA Minority Collegiate Championship in 2015 and the MIAA title in 2016.
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