About the Program
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- The Knights have been nationally ranked each year from 2006-2017.
- Qualified for the NCAA Championships the last five seasons (2011-2017), 12 of the last 13 seasons, and 19 times overall.
- Six NCAA Championships top-10 finishes (1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2011, 2017 [5th place])
- An additional 8 individual qualifiers for the NCAA Championships
- Carleton runners have earned 10 All-America citations, led by national champions Anna Prineas (1987) and Shelley Scherer (1988)
- Won 9 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) team titles, including a three-peat from 2013-2015 and six titles since 2009
- Over the last 35 years, Carleton has posted 30 top-three finishes at the MIAC Championships, including every year from 2004-2017
- Five individual MIAC champions: Shelley Scherer (1987), Anna Prineas (1988), Simone Childs-Walker (2011), Ruth Steinke (2014), Meg Mathison (2017)
- Carleton has received the All-Academic Team Award every year since the program began in 1993.