Carleton Knights
| Carleton Knights | |
|---|---|
 | |
| University | Carleton College |
| Conference | MIAC |
| NCAA | Division III |
| Athletic director | Gerald Young |
| Location | Northfield, MN |
| Varsity teams | 18 |
| Football stadium | Laird Stadium |
| Basketball arena | West Gymnasium |
| Nickname | Knights |
| Fight song | "Hail to the Bulldogs!" |
| Colors |
Blue Maize |
| Website |
apps |
The Carleton Knights are the sports teams of Carleton College, located in Northfield, Minnesota. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC), re-joining the conference in 1983. Carleton was a founding member of the MIAC in 1920, but left in 1925.[1]
Sports
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Men's Sports[2] |
Women's sports[2] |
Football
Carleton hosted the only NCAA-sponsored metric football game in 1977. The game was dubbed the "Liter Bowl" and was measured in meters instead of yards. Carleton lost the game to St. Olaf College by a score of 43-0.[3] The event was the last to fill Carleton's Laird Stadium.[4]
Mascot
The official mascot of the Carleton Athletic teams is the Knights.[5]
Club sports
The student-run Ultimate frisbee clubs have had the most competitive success; most notably, the school's top men's team, Carleton Ultimate Team (CUT), and women's team, Syzygy, are perennial national contenders in the USA Ultimate College Division. CUT has qualified annually for nationals since 1989, and won the National Championship in 2001, 2009, and 2011.[6] Syzygy has qualified for women's nationals all but one year since 1987, and won the National Championship in 2000.[7] The other men's Ultimate team, the Gods of Plastic, won the 2009, 2010, and 2012 Division III National Championship tournaments,[8] and the second women's Ultimate team, Eclipse, won Division III nationals in 2011.[9]
In the fall of 2011, the women's rugby team was undefeated in their league and region. This led them on to win Division 3 national playoffs. After winning their league, the team continues to regularly dominate their region, as well as compete at state and national levels every year.
The spring intramural softball league is known as Rotblatt, in honor of baseball player Marvin Rotblatt. Once a year a day-long game, also known as Rotblatt, lasts the same number of innings as the number of years since Carleton's founding. In 1997, Sports Illustrated honored Rotblatt in its "Best of Everything" section with the award, "Longest Intramural Event."[10]
Athletic facilities
- Laird Stadium is the home of the Carleton Knights football and track and field teams. Its capacity is 7,500 and is one of the largest in Division III. Laird Stadium has been the site for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships three times.[11]
- West Gymnasium is the home for Knights basketball and volleyball teams. Also in West Gymnasium is the a six-lane, 25-yard pool with one-and three-meter diving boards and seating for 350, and the athletics director and head coaches of men's and women's basketball, women's golf and men's and women's swimming and diving.[12]
- Bell Field is home of the softball and soccer teams, as well as a variety of intramural and club sports. The MIAC Tennis Championships are held at the tennis courts and the 1994 NCAA Division III Tennis Championships was also hosted at Carleton. The softball complex has hosted the MIAC Playoffs in 2004 and 2006.[12]
- Northfield Golf Club is the home course for the Knights' men's and women's golf teams.[12]
References
- ↑ MIAC Athletics history
- 1 2 CC Knights Sports Teams
- ↑ "Carleton Football Report - week four" (PDF) (Press release). Carleton College Athletics. 2008-10-04. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
•The "Liter Bowl" gave the series a unique twist in 1977. The squads tried to usher in the metric system; the playing field was extended nine yards to reach 100 meters in length, and the players were listed in centimeters and kilograms in the game program. The brainchild of Carleton chemistry professor Jerry Mohrig, the game attracted 10,000 fans and attention from the national media, including Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and NBC Television. St. Olaf handily won the contest, 43-0. It is the only NCAA-sanctioned football game to have been played on a metric field.
- ↑ Ariel Emery (December 2, 2008). "Historical oddities rest unseen in local archives". Northfield News. WebCite. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
- ↑ Carleton College mascot
- ↑ "College Open Division". Usaultimate.org. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
- ↑ "College Women's Division". Usaultimate.org. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
- ↑ "UPA Division III College Championships". USA Ultimate. Retrieved September 21. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "D-III College Championship -- Sunday Women's Recap". USA Ultimate. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ↑ "Video". CNN. 28 April 1997.
- ↑ Laird Stadium
- 1 2 3 Carleton College Athletic Facilities