2025-2026 Adrian College Academic Catalog

NCAA Division III

Adrian College is a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association — a NCAA Division III conference. This conference brings a group of institutions that share common commitment to academic quality and to the conduct of athletics to support their educational purposes.

While the MIAA is the conference for a majority of the varsity sports, Adrian College also is affiliated with the following conferences: Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (Men’s and Women’s NCAA Hockey), US Figure Skating (Figure Skating and Synchronized Skating), Midwest Volleyball Association (Men’s Volleyball), MARC Conference (Men’s and Women’s Rowing).

Men - NCAA Sports

Men’s NCAA Sports

Teams for men are available in these 14 sports:

  • Baseball                                                  
  • Basketball                                               
  • Cross Country                                         
  • Football                                                   
  • Golf
  • Ice Hockey
  • Indoor Track and Field
  • Lacrosse
  • Outdoor Track and Field
  • Rowing
  • Soccer
  • Tennis                                                     
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling

 

Over the last three years, multiple men’s athletics teams have had success at Adrian College. In 2022, the NCAA men’s hockey team brought home the school’s first ever NCAA National Championship. In 2021, the baseball team made a run to the Division III College World Series for the first time since 2008. The men’s basketball team reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history in 2020 after winning the MIAA Tournament. Men’s wrestling hosted two NCAA Regionals on campus and sent three individuals to Nationals as they sent two in 2020 and one in 2022. Track and Field was led by Derek Plitt who managed to win multiple All-American honors in indoor and outdoor track including a second-place finish in the 60m and the 200m at the 2022 Indoor Track and Field National Championships.

Women - NCAA Sports

Teams for women are available in these 16 sports:

  • Acrobatics and Tumbling

  • Basketball

  • Cross Country

  • Golf

  • Ice Hockey

  • Indoor Track and Field

  • Lacrosse

  • Outdoor Track and Field

  • Rowing

  • Rugby

  • Soccer          

  • Softball

  • Tennis

  • Wrestling

  • Volleyball

Women’s NCAA hockey continues its yearly success winning the NCHA conference title in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Women’s soccer made its way to the NCAA Tournament in 2019 after winning the MIAA.      

Women’s wrestling has shown success as they’ve ranked in the top-10 in the country the past three seasons led by Zoe Nowicki who won her second national championship in 2022. In 2022, Cailey Beaudoin represented the track and field team at the outdoor national championship in the high jump where she finished 9th. Acrobatics and tumbling finished second in the Division III National Invitational and won six individual events.