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===Accomplishments=== ;National championships: Roanoke teams have won two national championships: the 1972 [[NCAA College Division]] men's [[1972 NCAA College Division basketball tournament|basketball]] championship and the 1978 [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] men's lacrosse championship. In 2001, Roanoke student Casey Smith won an individual national championship in the [[NCAA Division III|Division III]] women's 10,000m track and field event. In 2009, student Robin Yerkes secured Roanoke's fourth national championship when she won an individual championship in the [[NCAA Division III|Division III]] women's 400m track and field event.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> Yerkes is the most decorated athlete ever to graduate from Roanoke, earning 12 All-American honors in multiple events. In 2025, Mark Samuel won the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mark Samuel claims first-ever DIII wrestling championship for Roanoke College |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/article/mark-samuel-claims-first-ever-022555861.html#:~:|website=sports.yahoo.com |publisher=[[Yahoo|yahoo!sports]] |access-date=22 March 2025}}</ref> ;Conference championships: Roanoke teams have won 101 conference championships as of May 2013 (47 in men's sports, 54 in women's sports) since the college joined the ODAC as a founding member in 1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maroons.roanoke.edu/sports/2009/7/18/athdept_0718091646.aspx?tab=all-timeodacchampionships|title=Roanoke College Athletics|work=roanoke.edu|access-date=May 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612112907/http://maroons.roanoke.edu/sports/2009/7/18/athdept_0718091646.aspx?tab=all-timeodacchampionships|archive-date=June 12, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Roanoke has won more conference championships than any other ODAC school in men's lacrosse with 18 titles and women's basketball with 13 titles. Roanoke, [[Hampden–Sydney College]], and [[Randolph-Macon College]] are tied for the most conference championships in men's basketball with 10 titles each.
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