Athletics

Extra innings

Maybe sports were your favorite part of high school. You want to keep playing. And you want a great education.

Get both.

You can keep playing here.

Winning tradition

Winning isn’t everything. But Nebraska Wesleyan’s scholar-athletes make winning look easy.

12th in nation in Academic All-Americans
6th in Div. III for athletes winning NCAA postgraduate scholarships
23 GPAC all-sports championships in the last 27 years
2006 NCAA Div. III men’s golf national champions
2008-09 Accomplishments:

Five conference championships
12 top three conference finishes
10 All-Americans
131 GPAC Pfieger-Olsen Scholar Athlete Award winners
(for 3.3 GPA after at least three semesters)

Athletic scholarships?

Of all the schools in the GPAC (Great Plains Athletic Conference), we’re the only one that doesn’t award athletic scholarships. (That’s because we’re dually affiliated NAIA and NCAA Div. III.)

And yet we practically own the GPAC all-sports trophy. How’s that work?

The short answer: Our academic scholarships attract smart athletes.

“When I learned Wesleyan doesn’t give out athletic scholarships, I thought that was going to be a problem. But their academic financial aid is so good that Wesleyan’s bottom line was comparable to the schools offering me both athletic and academic scholarships.”

- Ryan Thramer, senior, basketball

Give a smart athlete great coaches, facilities and teammates, and that student-athlete will do well. It’s a winning formula.