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Since 2003, few teams in any sport have achieved the level of success enjoyed by the Lincoln women’s track & field team. The Blue Tigers continued the dynasty in May of 2019, when Lincoln won its second-straight NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field national title. Winners of 14 total national championships over the past 16 years, including five-straight NCAA Division II outdoor titles from 2003-2007, the Blue Tiger track & field program was honored in 2013 by being inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

Lincoln has established itself as one of the top track & field programs in all of NCAA Division II, with the men's team posting top-10 finishes in the 2019 NCAA Division II Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Both the LU men and women won MIAA titles in indoor track & Field in 2016, with the men taking the title during the 2017 outdoor season en route to finishing as the national runner-up at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Before the 2019-20 season was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lincoln men's indoor track & field team was ranked No. 1 in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's Division II rankings.

The Lincoln men's golf team has also experienced the feeling of winning a championship recently, as the Blue Tigers have won seven PGA Minority Collegiate National Championship Division II tournaments. An annual golf tournament sponsored by the PGA and open to all HBCU men's golf programs, Lincoln posted wire-to-wire victories at the championship in 2013 and 2014. In 2015, Blake Lammers continued the tradition by becoming the individual champion at the PGA Minority Collegiate Championship. In 2016, Lammers also was the individual titleist at the MIAA Championships and became the first Blue Tiger to qualify for the NCAA regional since current coach Aaron Murphy accomplished the feat in 2009.

Over the past nine years, 10 Lincoln athletic programs have qualified for some form of postseason competition. In 2011-12, the LU women's basketball team came within eight points of playing in the MIAA tournament championship game. In 2013, Twishana Williams became the only female runner in the MIAA to earn All-American honors. The men's basketball program has made the postseason in each of the past five years while Ryan Brown won the indoor national championship in the triple jump in March of 2019.

The women's track & field team won its 14th national championship in May of 2019. Blake Lammers won the PGA Minority Collegiate Championship in 2015 and the MIAA title in 2016.

The Blue Tiger Athletics Club (BTAC) is the fundraising arm for the Department of Athletics at Lincoln University.

The BTAC was created to provide financial support, as well as scholarships to all student-athletes.

As a member of the BTAC, you’ll be part of the only fundraising organization for the department of athletics that is sanctioned by the University.

Mission Statement: The stated mission of the Blue Tiger Athletics Club is to support the athletic endeavors of Lincoln University Blue Tigers. The BTAC assists our student-athletes by providing additional funding for scholarships, facilities and various programs that enable them to realize their dreams of achieving a quality education while participating in athletics on a nationally competitive level.

Purpose: The purpose of the club is to promote and to support Lincoln University Athletic Department sports programs. The primary goal of this nonprofit, tax-exempt organization is to provide scholarships for student-athletes at Lincoln University. All funds raised to assist the athletics department must be channeled through the University Foundation in the Office of Advancement.

Objectives: To unite alumni and supporters in a cooperative enterprise with Lincoln University Department of Athletics; - To develop team spirit and loyalty to the University; - To promote and then support intercollegiate athletics at Lincoln University. - To solicit gifts to be applied to the athletics program at the discretion of the Club’s executive committee. - To view such solicitation in accordance with the regulations established by Lincoln UniversityFoundation, Department of Athletics, the Athletic Association with which the College is affiliated, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

To learn more about the Blue Tiger Athletics Club, or to become a member, please contact Keena Lynch, Executive Director of the BTAC, at 573-681-5342 or lynchk@lincolnu.edu.

Corporate Sponsorship is a great way to support Blue Tiger Athletics, while also reaching your targeted demographic, however wide or granular.

Research suggests sponsoring intercollegiate athletics events is very effective in creating goodwill and brand allegiance. We have a diverse selection of inventory and will work to co-create a package which provides value for your entity, by reaching your ideal customers. Our inventory includes but is not limited to: signage, on-site promotions, hospitality, publication advertising sales, social media promotion, digital signage, corporate partnership programs, radio, ticket backs, and parking passes.

If you are interested in sponsoring Blue Tiger Athletics please contact Keena Lynch at 573-6815342 or lynchk@lincolnu.edu for further information.

At the close of the Civil War, soldiers and officers of the 62nd United States Colored Infantry, stationed at Fort McIntosh, Texas, but composed primarily of Missourians, took steps to establish an educational institution in Jefferson City, Missouri, which they named Lincoln Institute. The following stipulations were set for the school:

1. The institution shall be designed for the special benefit of the freed African-Americans; 2. It shall be located in the state of Missouri; 3. Its fundamental idea shall be to combine study and labor.

Members of the 62nd Colored Infantry contributed $5,000; this was supplemented by approximately $1,400, given by the 65th Colored Infantry. On January 14, 1866, Lincoln Institute was formally established under an organization committee. By June of the same year, it incorporated and the committee became a Board of Trustees. Richard Baxter Foster, a former first lieutenant in the 62nd Infantry, was named first principal of Lincoln Institute. On September 17, 1866, the school opened its doors to the first class in an old frame building in Jefferson City.

In 1869, Lincoln Institute moved to the present campus, and in 1870 it began to receive aid from the state of Missouri for teacher training. College-level work was added to the curriculum in 1877, and passage of the Normal School Law permitted Lincoln graduates to teach for life in Missouri without further examination. Lincoln Institute formally became a state institution in 1879 with the deeding of the property to the state. Under the second Morrill Act of 1890, Lincoln became a land grant institution, and the following year industrial and agricultural courses were added to the curriculum.

In 1921, the Missouri Legislature passed a bill introduced by Walthall M. Moore, the first black American to serve in that body, which changed the name from Lincoln Institute to Lincoln University and created a Board of Curators to govern the University.

The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools accredited the high school division in 1925, the teacher-training program in 1926, and the four-year college of arts and sciences in 1934. Graduate instruction was begun in the summer session of 1940, with majors in education and history and minors in English, history, and sociology. A School of Journalism was established in February 1942.

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, and Lincoln University responded by opening its doors to all applicably meeting its entrance criteria. Today, Lincoln University serves a diverse clientele, both residential and non-residential, engages in a variety of research projects, and offers numerous public service programs in addition to providing an array of academic programs.

#2 - Ashton Stalling Fr. • 5-2 • R/R • P/OF Lafayette, Ga.

#11 - Jordan Lawson Sr. • 5-7 • R/R • P/UT Iberia, Mo.

#21 - Qwynn Marquez So. • 5-2 • R/R • OF Independence, Kan.

#4 - Alex Miller Jr. • 5-6 • R/R • P/OF Lexington, Mo.

#12 - Hannah Clark Fr. • 5-6 • R/R • P/1B Owensboro, Ky.

#22 - Bekah Kirker So. • 5-4 • R/R • IF Salem, Mo.

Fr. • 5-7 • R/R • P House Springs, Mo.

Fr. • 5-2 • R/R • IF/OF Kansas City, Mo.

Fr. • 5-6 • R/R • UT Quitman, Ark.

#15 - Tressa Hughes So. • 5-6 • R/R • P Dixon, Mo.

#24 - Leah Wagner Fr. • 5-6 • R/R • C/UT Odessa, Mo.

Head Coach

Jr. • 5-3 • R/R • 1B Unionville, Mo.

#18 - Kendra Holt Jr. • 5-9 • R/R • 1B Kansas City, Mo.

Fr. • 5-2 • R/R • IF Chatsworth, Ga.

Fr. • 5-4 • R/R • C Jefferson City, Mo.

#20 - Shannon Greene Sr. • 5-4 • R/R • P McLouth, Kan.

#27 - Jacqueline Marquez Fr. • 5-6 • R/R • C/3B Portage, Ind.

Graduate Assistant

Graduate Assistant