Athletics

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• Northern Kentucky University is an NCAA Division II school that is part of the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Its sports nickname is 'Norse,' which means - to us at NKU, anyway - a fighter, a tough-as-a-Viking competitor who won't quit in the quest to better oneself, or one's team.
• The Norse field teams in men's baseball, women's softball, men's and women's basketball, soccer, cross country, tennis, golf, and women's volleyball.
• NKU has claimed the GLVC All-Sports Trophy (which recognizes the highest combined finish in all sports) seven times since 1999 (1999-2000, 2000-01, 01-02, 04-05 and 05-06, 08-09 and 09-10).
• In 2000, the NKU women's basketball team became NKU's first national championship team by winning the NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship, ending its season with a 32-2 record. The 2002-03 team was the NCAA Women's Division II national runner-up. And in a magical run, the 2007-2008 squad entered the postseason unranked, only to reel off a string of victories over ranked squads to bring home the school's second national championship.
• The men's basketball team was the NCAA Division II national runner-up during the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons.
• The women's soccer team was the NCAA Division II runner-up in 2000 and advanced to the NCAA Division II Final Four in 1999 and 2001.
• The fastpitch softball team holds the NCAA record (including Division I) for most consecutive wins in a season with 55.
• In 2006, the Norse cheerleading squad won the Universal Cheerleading Association's national title in the small unit coed category of NCAA Division II competition, and also won the national title again in 2007.