Augsburg College: Sports
Sports
2001-02
Athletic year in review
by Don Stoner
Fifteen All-MIAC honors;
three All-MIAC second-team honors; 17 All-MIAC honorable mention team honors;
three All-Region honors; and an All-Region honorable mention highlighted Auggie
athletics this year.
Wrestling
Augsburg won its third straight NCAA Division III national championship and
eighth in the last 12 years, both NCAA Division III records. Under head coach
Jeff Swenson, the Auggies finished with a 16-0 dual-meet record, extending its
consecutive match winning streak to 24. The Auggies won the Division III national
tournament by six points over Upper Iowa and Wartburg. Augsburg has had 71 NWCA
Scholar All-Americans since 1983. In the five seasons the National Wrestling
Coaches Association has sponsored a Division III academic national team championship,
the Auggies have finished in the top four every year.
 Football
Augsburg's football team finished the 2001 campaign with a 4-5 mark in the rugged
MIAC, which sent two teams to the NCAA Division III national playoffs. Head
coach Jack Osberg earned his 50th career coaching victory, and now stands at
53-58 in his 11-season career. The 53 wins are the second-most ever for an Augsburg
coach; only Edor Nelson's 58 wins are greater. Senior Matt Chappuis earned the
Stam Award, given to the outstanding lineman in the MIAC on a vote of conference
coaches.
Volleyball
Augsburg's volleyball team continued to improve despite a schedule that included
eight matches against teams invited to the 2000 or 2001 NCAA Division III national
playoffs. The team, which had only two seniors, finished 12-18 overall and 4-7
in MIAC play.
Men's soccer
Augsburg's men's soccer team continued to show improvement under third-year
head coach Mike Navarre. The Auggies finished with a 5-11-1 overall record,
matching last year's win total. All but four of the team's 26 goals were scored
by freshmen or sophomores.
Men's hockey
Augsburg finished third in the MIAC, with a 10-5-1 mark (14-9-3 overall). More
than half of this year's team were freshmen or sophomores, with just eight seniors.
Women's hockey
Augsburg finished one point shy of qualifying for the postseason playoffs, with
a 9-13-2 overall record (8-9-1 MIAC). Augsburg won seven of its final 12 games
with more than half of the team either freshmen or sophomores. Freshman Lauren
Chezick was named to the MIAC All-Rookie Team.
Men's/Women's cross country
Augsburg's men's squad recorded its best finish ever in the NCAA Division III
Central Regional, placing 12th in the 22-team event. All six runners placed
in the top 106 in the 154-runner race. Augsburg's women's squad recorded its
best finish since 1996 with a 16th-place finish in the 22-team meet. In the
MIAC meet, the men placed seventh while the Auggie women were 10th.
 Men's/Women's
track and field
Senior Chrissy Baune earned a berth in the NCAA Division III national championships
for the first time in her career, qualifying after winning the MIAC title in
the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase. Augsburg's men finished ninth and the
women 11th in the MIAC.
Men's golf
Augsburg
finished the fall half of the men's golf season with a fourth-place finish at
the very competitive MIAC champion-ships, continuing a string of finishing in
the top four in the league meet every year since 1994.
Women's golf
With
just four golfers in the fall and six in the spring, Augsburg finished ninth
as a team at the MIAC championships, led by junior Janell Johnson, who earned
Most Improved Golfer from coaches in the Minnesota WomenÃs Collegiate Golf Association.
Don
Stoner is sports information coordinator.
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