Editing Wittenberg University (section)

==Athletics==
{{See also|Wittenberg Tigers football}}
[[File:Wittenburg Tigers logo, Winged W with Tigers.svg|thumb|120px|Wittenberg athletics logo]]
Wittenberg University teams participate as a member of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]'s [[NCAA Division III|Division III]]. The Tigers are a member of the [[North Coast Athletic Conference]] (NCAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field and volleyball. The school's newest varsity sport for men, volleyball, was added in the 2015–16 school year (2016 season); that team began play in the [[Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League]] (MCVL),<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.wittenbergtigers.com/sports/mvball/2014-15/releases/12_10 |title=New Tiger Men's Volleyball Program Accepted Into MCVL |publisher=Wittenberg Athletics |date=10 December 2014 |access-date=15 December 2014}}</ref> left after the 2018 season for single-sport membership in the [[Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference]], and returned to the MCVL after the 2020 season.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://mcvl.org/sports/mvball/2019-20/releases/20200124iy0ukj |title=Wittenberg Back to the MCVL in 2021 |publisher=Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League |date=24 January 2020 |access-date=18 February 2020}}</ref> The newest women's varsity sport, water polo, was added to the 2018–19 school year. That team plays in the Division III varsity division of the [[Collegiate Water Polo Association]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wittenbergtigers.com/general/2016-17/releases/20170327nl1dr1 |title=Wittenberg University to Add Women's Water Polo|date=27 March 2017}}</ref>

In 2017 the men's golf team won the Division III National Championship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wittenberg wins first DIII golf championship {{!}} NCAA.com |url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/golf-men/article/2017-05-18/ncaa-mens-golf-wittenberg-university-wins-first-diii-golf |access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.ncaa.com|language=en}}</ref>

In 2017 the women's volleyball team competed in the NCAA Division III National Championship, rising to Division III runner-up.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wittenbergtigers.com/sports/wvball/2017-18/schedule |title=2017 Schedule |website=Wittenberg |access-date=2 May 2018}}</ref>

Wittenberg ended the 2009 fall sports season ranked 16th among more than 430 NCAA Division III schools in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup standings, administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/athletics/news/2009releases/ncaaallsportsfall09.pdf |title=WittenbergTigers.com |publisher=.wittenberg.edu |access-date=29 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325070702/http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/athletics/news/2009releases/ncaaallsportsfall09.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2012}}</ref>