Quincy Hawks

Quincy Hawks
Quincy Hawks
University	Quincy University
Conference	GLVC–West Division; MIVA (men's volleyball); MSFL (sprint football)
NCAA	Division II; Division I (men's volleyball)
Location	Quincy, Illinois
Varsity teams	24
Football stadium	QU Stadium
Basketball arena	Pepsi Arena
Baseball stadium	QU Stadium
Softball stadium	Mart Heinen Softball Complex
Soccer stadium	Legends Stadium
Mascot	Victor E. Hawk
Nickname	Hawks
Colors	Brown, white, and gold;
Website	quhawks.com

The Quincy Hawks are the athletic teams that represent Quincy University, located in Quincy, Illinois, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Hawks, members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) since 1994, compete in that league in all but three sports. Men's volleyball plays in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association through the 2025 season (2024–25 school year), after which the GLVC will begin sponsoring that sport.^[2] Since there is no men's volleyball at the Division II level, the men's volleyball team is the only program that plays at the Division I level. Sprint football, a weight-restricted form of American football governed outside the NCAA structure, competes in the Midwest Sprint Football League. Men's bowling is also governed outside of the NCAA (the NCAA governs only women's bowling); QU competes as an independent.

Quincy added women's lacrosse in 2017 and men's lacrosse in 2018, bringing the total number of programs up to 23.^[3] Sprint football became the 24th varsity sport in 2022. QU is one of six charter members of the Midwest Sprint Football League.^[4]

Varsity teams

List of teams

Men's sports (13)

Baseball
Basketball
Bowling^[a]
Cross country
Football
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Sprint football^[b]
Tennis
Track and field^[c]
Volleyball

Women's sports (11)

Basketball
Bowling
Cross country
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Tennis
Track and field^[c]
Volleyball

^ Men's bowling is not an NCAA-recognized sport.
^ Sprint football is governed outside the NCAA structure.
^ ^a ^b The NCAA classifies indoor and outdoor track & field as two separate sports.

National championships

Team

Association	Division	Sport	Year	Opponent/Runner-up	Score
Men's Soccer (11)^[5]	NAIA (11)	Single (11)	1966	Trenton State	6–1
			1967	Rockhurst	3–1
			1971	Davis & Elkins	1–0
			1973	Rockhurst	3–0
			1974	Davis & Elkins	6–0
			1975	Simon Fraser	1–0
			1977	Keene State	3–0
			1978	Alabama–Huntsville	2–0
			1979	Rockhurst	1–0
			1980	Simon Fraser	1–0
			1981	Alderson Broaddus	4–1
Softball (1)	NAIA (1)	Single (1)	1985	Washburn	4–2

Individual sports

Football

First Season - 1916

1993 National Champion - No. 1 in the final NCAA Division II Non-Scholarship Football Poll released by Don Hansen's National College Football Weekly Gazette.

Soccer

The men's soccer team won the NAIA national men's soccer championship a record eleven times, 1966–67, 1971, 1973–75, and 1977–81 (the five consecutive titles is also a record) and finished second in 1968 and 1970. The program moved to the NCAA's Division I in 1984. From 1987 through 1990, the Hawks competed in the Big Central Soccer Conference and was an associate member of the Mid-Continent Conference in 1994 and 1995. In 1996, both Quincy and SIU Edwardsville joined the GLVC, stepping down to division II.^[6]

Softball

Prior to joining the NCAA, Quincy's women won the NAIA national softball championship in 1985 (after being runners-up the previous year).

References

^ "Quincy FB Fast Facts" (PDF). Retrieved January 30, 2017.
^ "About Us". Great Lakes Valley Conference. Retrieved April 9, 2024. The GLVC will also begin sponsorship of men's volleyball in 2025-26 to increase sport sponsorship to 25.
^ "QU Secures $4 Million Investment to Renovate QU Stadium". Quincy University. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ "New Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Forms for Sprint Football" (Press release). Midwest Sprint Football League. June 21, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
^ "NAIA Men's Soccer Championship History" (PDF). NAIA. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
^ "NAIA Men's Soccer Championship Results" (PDF). NAIA. NAIA Honors.com. Retrieved February 2, 2016.