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| Team | MIAA PY NPI | Known D3 Games | Opp PY W/L | Opp PY NCAA Tourn | Average of PY NPI | PY NPI Top 50 | Opp w better NPI |
| Alma | 341 | 9 | 0.408 | 2 | 231 | 1 | 6 |
| Calvin | 91 | 9 | 0.454 | 1 | 185 | 2 | 2 |
| Olivet | 127 | 11 | 0.613 | 4 | 122 | 2 | 7 |
| Trine | 82 | 8 | 0.665 | 1 | 83 | 2 | 4 |
Quote from: sac on June 17, 2026, 09:46:52 PMFormer Grandville boys basketball head coach Ryan Wade will be joining the staff at Hope College.
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on May 31, 2026, 03:31:45 PMGood work Mitch. Maybe D1 programs low ball D3 athletes because they already don't get a scholarship and part of the appeal is the "D1 experience". Curious what fellow D3er Overway got from GB coming from Calvin.
Quote from: WUPHF on May 14, 2026, 11:25:45 AMNo promises of feature-style coverage or maybe I missed it.You can essentially recreate that article by Googling Greatest D3 sports dynasties and looking at the AI results
Flo College did publish a greatest sports dynasties story last week, so they are doing things. Limited things.
It seems strange that Johns Hopkins lacrosse and St. Thomas football made the list by the way, especially with the obvious recency bias.
You have to favor the recent dynasties to pick NYU Women's Basketball over the other more storied UAA program.
And Calvin volleyball?
https://www.flocollege.com/articles/15882801-the-greatest-d3-sports-dynasties-ever
Quote from: Gregory Sager on May 11, 2026, 12:13:26 PMQuote from: Flying Dutch Fan on May 11, 2026, 09:30:30 AMPulling this back up since the weekend saw a bit of a coming out from the midwest in lacrosse as unranked Hope (now 20-0) beat Ithaca 14-11, and then Bates 14-12 - both games at Bates. Marks the first time any team from the MIAA has reached the quarter finals. The Hope roster (42 total) is 81% Michigan natives (more than 50% of the roster is from wihtin an hour drive of Hope), with the rest a mix from IL, CO, IN, OH, Wa, and CA.
Interesting note: Following that Saturday game (was a 7pm start time) Hope had to quickly fly home so that the 12 Seniors could graduate at 3pm the next day - STUDENT athletes!!
Yes, interesting. It does appear that midwestern lacrosse is slowly but surely beginning to make national inroads.
Your postscript about sports and graduation raises an interesting and timely issue, FDF. It's been a tradition at North Park for decades to hold a separate graduation ceremony for senior student-athletes in spring sports whose teams have qualified for postseason tournaments or meets that will take place on Commencement Saturday. It's always held on the Tuesday of Commencement Week in the small and intimate Isaacson Chapel in Nyvall Hall, the seminary building on North Park's campus. It's usually a function that serves North Park baseball teams that have qualified for the CCIW baseball tournament, although sometimes (as happened this year) the softball team also qualifies for their CCIW tourney and thus has its seniors receive their diplomas in the Tuesday graduation ceremony in Isaacson as well. The tradition used to be that the baseball players would wear their North Park baseball caps in lieu of the usual flat-topped and tasseled mortarboard graduation caps, but this year they abandoned that tradition and went with the standard mortarboards, probably because it's becoming increasingly popular in America for graduating college students to decorate and personalize their mortarboards and the NPU baseball players wanted to do that as well.
Given that CCIW schools generally run similar school-year calendars, my guess is that other schools in the conference likewise provide similar auxiliary commencements for their seniors who are spring student-athletes with competition conflicts on Commencement Saturday. And since the CCIW doesn't operate in a vacuum, I'm also guessing that there are other D3 schools across the country that do this. Which schools hold separate commencements for their graduating senior student-athletes who are playing postseason sports in May, and which schools follow Hope's pattern and will move heaven and earth to get their seniors back on campus in time for commencement? And are there any schools that simply tell their seniors, "Sorry, but even though you're on the school's team, if you're going to be playing sports on graduation day you're gonna have to receive your diploma in the mail"?
| Player | Height | Position | High School | College | |
| Adrian | |||||
| Miaen Shipp | 5-7 | G | Warren Fitzgerald (MI) | Albion | |
| Jacob Figaro | 6-2 | F | Cass Tech (MI) | Albion | |
| Henry Peck | 6-3 | G | East Lansing (MI) | Albion | |
| Deandre Dann | 6-4 | F | Loyola - Detroit (MI) | Albion | |
| Brayden Holok | 6-4 | G/F | Stevensville-Lakeshore (MI) | Albion | |
| Darius Aldrich | 6-5 | F/C | Durand (MI) | Albion | |
| Adam Dugener | 6-0 | PG | North Muskegon (MI) | Alma | |
| Georyeon Cannon | 6-3 | G | Grand Blanc (MI) | Alma | |
| Connor Fierstine | 6-3 | F | Marquette (MI) | Alma | |
| Mason Gugle | 6-4 | G/F | Leroy Pine River (MI) | Alma | |
| Parker Sundman | 6-4 | G | Hartland (MI) | Alma | |
| Dalton Dudas | 6-7 | F | South Lyon East (MI) | Alma | |
| Titus Spencer | 5-11 | PG | Holland Christian (MI) | Calvin | |
| Jonny Ingalls | 6-0 | PG | St Ignace (MI) / Northern Michigan transfer | Calvin | |
| Will Plummer | 6-1 | G | Grand Haven (MI) | Calvin | |
| Kyler Berghuis | 6-2 | G | Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI) | Calvin | |
| Jack Kamminga | 6-4 | G/F | Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI) | Calvin | |
| Cole Charter | 6-5 | G | Clarkston (MI) | Calvin | |
| Milo Barangan | 6-5 | F | Mona Shores (MI) | Calvin | |
| Matthew Elderkin | 6-6 | F | Calvin Christian (MI) / GVSU transfer | Calvin | |
| Owen Vander Waal | 6-7 | F | Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI) | Calvin | |
| Marc Gamble | 6-8 | F | Timothy Christian Elmhurst (IL) | Calvin | |
| Luke Tubergen | 6-9 | C | Hudsonville Unity Christian (MI) | Calvin | |
| Brody Willick | 5-11 | G | Kenowa Hills (MI) | Hope | |
| Ayden Ayers | 6-2 | G | Spring Lake (MI) | Hope | |
| Kaden Grau | 6-4 | G | Westview Topeka (IN) | Hope | |
| Ben Uhde | 6-4 | G | Johns Creek (GA) | Hope | |
| Johnny Lake | 6-6 | F | Battle Creek Pennfield (MI) | Hope | |
| Ben Mehendale | 6-8 | F/C | Brecksville Broadview Heights (OH) | Hope | |
| Dylan Gross | 5-9 | PG | Rockford (MI) | Kalamazoo | |
| Truman Brennan | 5-10 | G | Paw Paw (MI) | Kalamazoo | |
| Marvin Moore | 6-0 | G | Muskegon Reeths-Puffer (MI) | Kalamazoo | |
| Jordan Harrison | 6-1 | G | Ann Arbor Pioneer (MI) | Kalamazoo | |
| Andrew Caldwell | 6-4 | G | Flint Powers (MI) | Kalamazoo | |
| Brennan Elling | 6-5 | F | Oxford (MI) | Kalamazoo | |
| Brayden Lee | 6-6 | F | Dakota (MI) | Kalamazoo | |
| Jamison Huizenga | 6-2 | G | Holland Black River (MI) | Olivet | |
| Blake Schuch | 6-6 | F | Davison (MI) | Olivet | |
| Charles Cunningham | 5-10 | G | Springfield (OH) | Trine | |
| Jackson Kohler | 6-0 | G | Yale (MI) | Trine | |
| Drake Ahrens | 6-3 | G | Versailles (OH) | Trine | |
| Cassius Bont | 6-3 | G | Byron Center (MI) | Trine | |
| Jack Leppelmeier | 6-3 | G | Pettisville (OH) | Trine | |
| Jake Holcomb | 6-5 | F | Holland Christian (MI) | Trine | |
| Brogan McNiece | 6-5 | F | Ft Wayne Homestead (IN) | Trine | |
| Connor Stevens | 6-5 | F | Concord (MI) | Trine | |
| Jaron Witcher | 6-6 | F | Sylvania Southview (OH) | Trine | |
| Caleb Claerbaut | 6-7 | F | Zeeland East (MI) | Trine | |
| Alex Lake | 6-7 | F | Indianapolis Bishop Chatard (IN) | Trine | |
| Drew Matelic | 6-7 | F | Speedway (IN) | Trine |
| Player | Height | Position | High School | College | |
| McKenzee Terpstra | 5-6 | G | Lawton (MI) | Adrian | |
| Jensyn Ardouin | 5-8 | G/F | Midland (MI) | Adrian | |
| Aubrin Miller | 5-8 | G | Lakeland (MI) | Adrian | |
| Gabriella Yancura | 5-9 | G | Stevenson Livonia (MI) | Adrian | |
| Kolie Brown | 5-10 | F | Columbia Central (MI) | Adrian | |
| Maycee Reed | 5-11 | F | Saranac (MI) | Adrian | |
| Ava Stafford | 5-7 | G | Adams Central (IN) | Albion | |
| Arisara MacDonald | 5-10 | F | Rochester (MI) | Albion | |
| Layne Biggers | 5-11 | F/C | Walled Lake Northern (MI) | Albion | |
| Alexandra Botbyl | 6-1 | C | Spring Lake (MI) | Albion | |
| Genevieve Ketola | 6-1 | F/C | Grand Ledge (MI) | Albion | |
| Mackenzie Dicken | 5-4 | PG | Plymouth (MI) | Alma | |
| Aviana Skinner | 5-6 | PG | Grand Ledge (MI) | Alma | |
| Reese Stedman | 5-7 | G | Jenison (MI) | Alma | |
| Kendra Cooley | 5-9 | F | Vicksburg (MI) | Alma | |
| Leigh Wyman | 5-8 | G | Blissfield (MI) | Calvin | |
| Jordan Mateer | 5-9 | G | Rockford (MI) | Calvin | |
| Brynn Norbeck | 5-9 | F | Fraser (MI) | Calvin | |
| Calista Blue | 5-10 | F | Haslett (MI) | Calvin | |
| Addy Rhodes | 5-10 | F | Calvin Christian (MI) | Calvin | |
| Kinsey Nordbeck | 5-11 | F/C | Franklin Livonia (MI) | Calvin | |
| Sophia Prins | 5-6 | PG | South Christian (MI) | Hope | |
| Olivia Jones | 5-9 | G/F | Pendleton Heights (IN) | Hope | |
| Lizzie Wolthuis | 5-10 | F | South Christian (MI) | Hope | |
| Kalamazoo | |||||
| Hannah Ralko | 5-7 | G | Howell (MI) | Olivet | |
| Hannah Hill | 5-8 | G | Onsted (MI) | Olivet | |
| Addilyn Moore | 5-11 | C | Coopersville (MI) | Olivet | |
| Katelyn Adams | 5-9 | G | GR West Catholic (MI) | St Mary's | |
| MacKenzi Duthie | 5-11 | F | Howell (MI) | St Mary's | |
| Aubri Korfhagen | 5-9 | G | Seton Cicinnati (OH) | Trine | |
| Carys Crossland | 5-10 | G | Patrick Henry Hamler (OH) | Trine | |
| Alivia Farnham | 6-0 | G | Edgerton (OH) | Trine | |
| Kara Straub | 6-1 | F | Michigan Center (MI) | Trine |
Quote from: Gregory Sager on April 30, 2026, 01:06:55 PMQuote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on April 30, 2026, 12:11:22 PMThe Northeast - Virginia to Maine - is still, by far, the hotbed of HS lacrosse. If your school lacks the prominence or geography to draw a fair number of students from this part of the country, it's going to be much tougher to field a competitive squad.
Nationally competitive ... yes, well, you can't overcome generations of sport history overnight. Prior to Y2K the northeastern corridor was practically the only place in America where anybody owned a lacrosse stick. That's changed, but it will take awhile before schools from other parts of the country break through in the national tournament. It's the same as soccer, which has also been a sport predominantly played by northeastern high schools, and thus dominated at the D3 level by northeastern members, until recent decades (although soccer started to break out in the midwest a generation before lacrosse). Soccer still has a pronounced northeastern flavor on the D3 level, although more and more midwestern teams have broken through in the D3 tourney over the past 10-15 years.Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on April 30, 2026, 12:11:22 PMThe popularity of lacrosse is increasing in the west and midwest, but not really yet at a level where it can feed a lot of college programs.
It depends upon what you mean by "a lot." And it also depends upon the state. Illinois has reached a sufficient saturation level in terms of high school lacrosse that it can supply a pretty fair amount of competent D3 lacrosse players. Just looking at the CCIW's men's lacrosse teams, Augustana's roster consists of 81% Illinois residents (albeit, Augie has a small roster and the team is not very good). Carroll's men's lacrosse is a little over half Illinoisian, which is impressive given the Wisconsin-heavy orientation of most CU sports (see above for my commentary about the very modest success of lacrosse's spread within Wisconsin high schools). Illinois Wesleyan is 40% Illinoisian and North Central is 43% Illinoisian. Carthage and Elmhurst have comparatively low percentages of Illinois residents.
But the important thing to note is where they're getting their out-of-state players. Virtually none of them are from the northeastern corridor. They tend to hail from Ohio, Minnesota, Michiana, and the suburbs of western cities such as Phoenix, Denver, Portland, and Seattle.