Wartburg

Wartburg College has received a $500,000 R.J. McElroy Trust challenge grant for the planned renovation of Clinton Hall.

Former Wartburg Knights quarterback Logan Schrader will continue to play football in Germany with the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes of the first division of the German Football League, the league announced today. He will move to Germany in March as the season starts in April.

The Wartburg Knights dominated the field winning its sixth straight Division III National Duals title. Wartburg only lost four bouts the entire weekend.

Top-ranked Wartburg (9-0 overall)went 2-0 during the first day of the 2016 National Duals in Fort Wayne, IN. The Knights are seeking their sixth straight title.

No one associated with the Wartburg College wrestling team was involved in a deadly car accident involving pedestrians along the famous Las Vegas strip, but the mishap forced two teams to withdraw from a tournament the Knights are hosting there today (Monday, Dec. 21, 2015).

The UNI Panthers were honored with 14 student-athletes being named to the 2015 Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) all-league team, which was announced on Monday (Nov. 30).

The No. 21 Wartburg Knights set a new single-game school record in their 51-45 win over Simpson at Walston-Hoover Stadium in Waverly on Saturday (Nov. 7, 2015).

The Wartburg Knights re-wrote part of their record book during a 55-0 shutout of Buena Vista at Walston-Hoover Stadium in Waverly on Saturday (Oct. 31, 2015).

All week long, Wartburg Coach Rick Willis preached intensity and execution to the Knights heading into their game at arch-Iowa Conference rival Luther. They responded in a big way and left Decorah with a 47-7 victory on Saturday (Oct. 24, 2015).

The run of dominance by the Wartburg Knights in the Iowa Conference (IIAC) came to a screeching halt on Saturday (Oct. 17, 2015).