Wartburg Knights
College	Wartburg College
Conference	American Rivers Conference
NCAA	Division III
Athletic director	John Cochrane
Location	Waverly, IA
Varsity teams	27
Football stadium	Walston-Hoover Stadium
Basketball arena	Levick Arena
Baseball stadium	Harms Stadium at Hertel Field
Softball stadium	Lynes Field
Soccer stadium	Salzwedel Field
Golf course	Prairie Links Golf Course
Tennis venue	Meirink Family Tennis Facility
Outdoor track and field venue	Hoover Fieldhouse
Mascot	Sir Victor
Nickname	Knights
Fight song	U RAH RAH RAH!
Colors	Orange and Black[1]
Website	go-knights.net/index.aspx
Team NCAA championships
24

The Wartburg Knights are the athletic teams that represent Wartburg College, located in Waverly, Iowa. The Knights have varsity teams in 27 sports, 13 for men and 14 for women. The teams participate in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and are members of the American Rivers Conference. Currently, the school's athletic director is John Cochrane.

Wartburg has had a strong history in athletics at the Division III level. The Knights wrestling team has an NCAA Division III leading 15 national championships.^[2] The Knights also have multiple national championships in both women's indoor track and field(3) and women's outdoor track and field(5), with men's track and field winning one in 2021.^[3][4] The Knights made history in the spring of 2012 when they became the first and only school to win two national titles in one day when both wrestling and women's indoor track and field won.^[5] In basketball, the Wartburg women have reached the NCAA Final Four on two occasions, most recently in 2018. The men's team has made the Elite Eight once and the Sweet Sixteen on three separate occasions, most recently in 2017.^[6] The baseball team has reached the College World Series twice, most recently in 2005. Wartburg's softball team has played in the Women's College World Series once, in 2003.

In the spring of 2023, Wartburg secured their 19th straight American Rivers Conference all-sports trophy.^[7] The Knights have won the trophy every year since its inception in 2003. They also won the men's and women's all-sports trophy for the 24th and 18th year, respectively.

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