The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College

Kentucky Wesleyan College

Kentucky Wesleyan College is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky, a city on the Ohio River. KWC is just 40 minutes east of Evansville, Indiana, 2 hours north of Nashville, Tennessee, 2 hours west of Louisville, Kentucky, and 4 hours east of St. Louis, Missouri...

, which compete in the NCAA Division II and Great Lakes Valley Conference

Great Lakes Valley Conference

The Great Lakes Valley Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes at the NCAA's Division II level. Member institutions are located in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin....

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Kentucky Wesleyan has a long athletic history, and currently has men's teams competing in baseball, basketball, football, golf, cross country and soccer, and women's teams competing in basketball, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, cross country and volleyball.

Basketball

Main article: Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball

Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball

The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers men's basketball team represents Kentucky Wesleyan College, a private college of less than 1000 students located in Owensboro, Kentucky...

The men's basketball team advanced to the Division II championship game

NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship

The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship is an annual championship tournament for colleges and universities that are members of NCAA Division II, a grouping of schools in the United States that are generally smaller than the higher-profile institutions of Division I...

 six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001. In addition to these most recent successes, they also won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School.

Football

Kentucky Wesleyan has an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

team, which competes in the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Football Conference.

Kentucky Wesleyan's Great Lakes Valley Championship teams

Kentucky Wesleyan College Athletic Teams have won eighteen (18) Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships. The Kentucky Wesleyan College Softball Team won three GLVC Championships in the 80s (1984, 1986, and 1989)and in 1994. The KWC Men's Golf Team won the Great Lakes Valley Conference in 1983. Kentucky Wesleyan's Men's Basketball Team has won 13 GLVC Championships.