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The men's college was known as St. Benedict's College (alongside sister institution Mount St. Scholastica College) until a merger in 1971 created co-ed Benedictine College. [3] Benedictine won NAIA titles in men's basketball (1954, 1967) and women's lacrosse (2022).
Benedictine University, also called BenU, was founded in 1887 as St. Procopius College by the Benedictine monks of St. Procopius Abbey, who lived in the Pilsen community of Chicago's West Side. The monks created the all-male institution just two years after their community began, with the intention of educating men of Czech and Slovak descent.
Benedictine's athletic rivals are Hoban, and Walsh Jesuit. Benedictine recently added a men's lacrosse team which will compete in the OHSLA. Benedictine is the only school in Ohio to win an OHSAA State Championship in every decade since its inception. One of Benedictine's most famous coaches was Coach Auggie Bossu.
Benedictine played one of its best games of the season when it counted most as the Cadets beat New Hampstead to secure a spot in the state playoffs.
1971 – The Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC) was founded. Charter members included Baker University, Central Methodist College (now Central Methodist University), the College of Emporia, Graceland College (now Graceland University), Missouri Valley College, Ottawa University, Tarkio College and William Jewell College, beginning the 1971–72 academic year.
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and Benedictine (formerly St. Benedict's [Ks.]), Clarke University and Missouri Valley College for men's and women's lacrosse 2016 – St. Gregory's (Okla.) left the KCAC as an associate member for men's lacrosse after the school suspended it during the 2016 spring season (2015–16 academic year).
The Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) was the first NAIA lacrosse conference to offer a championship for both men and women. [1] During the summer of 2015, the NAIA approved men's and women's lacrosse to move from emerging sport status to national invitational. This move allows NAIA varsity teams to compete within the NAIA rather ...