"The summer 'break' is more satisfying when you consider our final national ranking," stated WSU Director of Athletics Rob Fournier. "Since the national ranking reflects overall competitive success, our 21st in the country finish is a credit to the hard work of student-athletes, coaches and staff. And when considered with our academic achievement of 61 percent of student-athletes above a 3.00 and 7,555 hours of community service last year, those same individuals can feel good about how they represented Wayne State University."
After garnering 220 points from winter sports (90 from women's swimming/diving, 85 men's swimming/diving, and 45 from men's and women's fencing), the five Warrior spring sports squads combined for 234.5 points as all five teams qualified for NCAA post-season play in the same year for the first time in school history.
Softball led the way with a seventh place national finish (73 points), while men's golf earned 61.5 points by virtue of its 14th place finish at the national championship. Women's tennis accumulated 50 points after advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament (17th place national finish). Both the baseball and men's tennis squads tallied 25 points.
The 454.5 total points for WSU is the second-highest mark in school history, trailing only the 2008-09 total of 499 points.
Wayne State has had its top nine all-time NACDA finishes in the last nine seasons, including six years of the last seven in the top 10 percent of Division II.
