Team Champions

Men's Basketball - 2001

The 2001 Catholic University Men's Basketball Championship remains the first and only team championship in Catholic Athletics history. The Cardinals defeated William Paterson by a final score of 76-62 on March 17 to win the national title. Andy Rice (17), Pat Maloney (16), Tim Judge (12), and Matt Hilleary (12) all scored in double figures as the Cardinals brought home the 2001 title. Read the game recap HERE.

With a jump of 5.19 meters on Day One of the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Di Nicolantonio has claimed Catholic's first individual national championship since 1991 and the fifth in Catholic track & field history. Locked into a back-and-forth battle with Millikin freshman, and 2024 Indoor National Champion, Kyle Hensley, Di Nicolantonio prevailed via tiebreaker as he converted at 5.14 meters while Hensley passed at the mark before converting at 5.19 meters. Di Nicolantonio set a program and Landmark Conference record with the 5.19-meter vault.

Caffrey won the national championship in the 1500 meters at the 1991 Division III Track & Field Championships hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Caffrey narrowly won the race with a time of 3:50.10, edging out Augustana's Sandu Rebencioc's time of 3:50.13. Five runners finished within a second of each other. Caffrey's run earned the Catholic men a top-25 finish at the event after earning 10 points for the Cardinals.

Hughes won the national championship in the 800 meters at the 1982 NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships at North Central College in Naperville, Ill. She ran the championship race in 2:13.1. Hughes outlasted UW-Stevens Point's Soreson with a time of 2:13.87 to claim the individual title. Her personal best in the event was 2:10, set at the EAIAW meet in 1981.

Robinson, formerly the head men's cross country and track and field coach, won the NCAA Division II 800 meter outdoor championship in 1974 (at Eastern Illinois) and 1975 (Cal State-Sacramento). Robinson won in 1974 with a time of 1:48.7 and in 1975 with a time of 1:52.24.

Baugher won the national college division championship in the 200 and 400 individual medley (swimming) in 1965 at Illinois State. He recorded a time of 2:05.5 in the 200 and 4:31.3 in the 400.

Stant twice reached the national tournament finals, winning the 1939 national championship in the 165-pound weight class. Stant lost only two bouts in his collegiate career.

Bernstein won the national collegiate boxing championship in 1938, winning the 115-pound weight class. The Cardinals also shared the unofficial 1938 NCAA boxing national championship with Virginia and West Virginia. However, according to the NCAA's National Collegiate Championships Records book, "Before 1948, team championships were unofficial because teams points were not officially awarded." The Cards, under Coach Eddie LaFond, tied the Cavaliers and Mountaineers with 10 points each. Idaho placed fourth in the event, which was held in Charlottesville, Va., with eight points. The NCAA discontinued boxing in 1961.