The Wartburg Knights are the athletic teams that represent Wartburg College, located in Waverly, Iowa. The Knights have varsity teams in 27 sports, 13 for men and 14 for women. The teams participate in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and are members of the American Rivers Conference. Currently, the school's athletic director is John Cochrane.

Wartburg has had a strong history in athletics at the Division III level. The Knights wrestling team has an NCAA Division III leading 15 national championships. The Knights also have multiple national championships in both women's indoor track and field(3) and women's outdoor track and field(5), with men's track and field winning one in 2021. The Knights made history in the spring of 2012 when they became the first and only school to win two national titles in one day when both wrestling and women's indoor track and field won. In basketball, the Wartburg women have reached the NCAA Final Four on three occasions, most recently in 2024. The men's team has made the Elite Eight once and the Sweet Sixteen on three occasions, most recently in 2017. The baseball team has reached the College World Series twice, most recently in 2005. Wartburg's softball team has played in the Women's College World Series once, in 2003.

In May 2024, Wartburg secured their 20th straight American Rivers Conference all-sports trophy. The Knights have won the trophy every year since its inception in 2003. They also won the men's all-sports trophy for the 25th time and have won the women's all sports trophy 18 times.

Sports sponsored Men's sports Women's sports Baseball Basketball Basketball Bowling Bowling Clay Target Sports Clay Target Sports Cross country Cross country Esports Esports Golf Football Soccer Golf Softball Soccer Tennis Tennis Track and field Track and field Volleyball Wrestling Wrestling

Current head coaches

Team Coach Wartburg NCAA Sport Head Coaches Baseball Casey Klunder Basketball (Men's) Sam Leal Basketball (Women's) Bob Amsberry Cross Country Ryan Chapman Football Chris Winter Golf (Director) Jason Steege Golf (Women's) John Thompson Soccer (Men's) Mike Madigan Soccer (Women's) Emily Ryan Softball Jamie Mueller Tennis (Men's and Women's) Chris Gustas Track and field (Men's and Women's) Marcus Newsom Volleyball DeAnn Akins Wrestling (Men's) Eric Keller Wrestling (Women's) Brady Kyner

Championships

NCAA team championships

Wartburg has won 26 NCAA team championships.

National Championships (26) Men's (18)SportYearHead CoachTournamentOutdoor Track & Field2021Marcus NewsomNCAAWrestling1996Jim MillerNCAA1999Jim MillerNCAA2003Jim MillerNCAA2004Jim MillerNCAA2006Jim MillerNCAA2008Jim MillerNCAA2009Jim MillerNCAA2011Jim Miller/Eric KellerNCAA2012Jim Miller/Eric KellerNCAA2013Jim Miller/Eric KellerNCAA2014Eric KellerNCAA2016Eric KellerNCAA2017Eric KellerNCAA2018Eric KellerNCAA2022Eric KellerNCAA2025Eric KellerNCAA2026Eric KellerNCAA Women's (8)Indoor Track & Field2009Marcus NewsomNCAA2010Marcus NewsomNCAA2012Marcus NewsomNCAAOutdoor Track & Field2005Marcus NewsomNCAA2009Marcus NewsomNCAA2012Marcus NewsomNCAA2013Marcus NewsomNCAA2014Marcus NewsomNCAA

Conference championships Wartburg has 282 championships in the American Rivers Conference (A-R-C), known as the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) from 1927 to 2018.

Conference Championships (282) Titles Sport Year 43 Men's Wrestling IIAC: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1960, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018A-R-C: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 26 Women's Outdoor Track and Field IIAC: 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018A-R-C: 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2026 22 Baseball IIAC: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 22 Men's Cross Country IIAC: 1963, 1967, 1970, 1982, 1991, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005A-R-C: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 22 Women's Cross Country IIAC: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014A-R-C: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 21 Men's Basketball IIAC: 1952, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2001, 2005, 2006 21 Football IIAC: 1958, 1959, 1968, 1982, 1983, 1993, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017A-R-C: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 18 Women's Indoor Track & Field IIAC: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018A-R-C: 2020, 2021, 2026 14 Men's Outdoor Track & Field IIAC: 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2017A-R-C: 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025, 2026 13 Men's Indoor Track & Field IIAC: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015A-R-C: 2019, 2021, 2025, 2026 13 Women's Basketball IIAC: 1990, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2017, 2018A-R-C: 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 12 Women's Golf IIAC: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 10 Women's Volleyball IIAC: 2002, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017A-R-C: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 6 Men's Golf IIAC: 1955, 1960, 1971, 1972, 2004, 2006 6 Men's Soccer IIAC: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013A-R-C: 2025 5 Softball IIAC: 2001, 2006, 2008 A-R-C: 2025, 2026 4 Women's Soccer IIAC: 2008, 2011, 2015A-R-C: 2020 2 Women's Wrestling A-R-C: 2025, 2026 1 Men's Tennis IIAC: 1993 1 Women's Tennis A-R-C: 2018 282 Total IIAC: 220A-R-C: 62

Director's Cup The NACDA Directors' Cup is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics. Points for the NACDA Directors' Cup are based on order of finish in various NCAA sponsored championships or based on various polls. The following is Wartburg's finish out of over 300 NCAA DIII institution's in the Director's Cup since 1995:

Year Standing Wartburg Learfield Director's Cup Standings 1995–96 T89th 1996–97 63rd 1997–98 39th 1998–99 T-25th 1999–00 34th 2000–01 10th 2001–02 15th 2002–03 7th 2003–04 13th 2004–05 12th 2005–06 17th 2006–07 24td 2007–08 8th 2008–09 15th 2009–10 32nd 2010–11 15th 2011–12 18th 2012–13 18th 2013–14 11th 2014–15 15th 2015–16 21st 2016–17 26th 2017–18 18th 2018–19 24th 2019–20 N/A (COVID) 2020–21 N/A (COVID) 2021–22 17th 2022–23 16th 2023–24 17th 2024–25 26th 2025–26 17th ^indicates a current standing indicates ranking down from previous year indicates ranking up from previous year

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