Wartburg Knights track and field

The Wartburg women's track and field team has won 8 NCAA team national titles, 3 indoor and 5 outdoor, with their most recent coming in the 2014 outdoor season.[2] The Knights won 3 straight NCAA outdoor titles from 2012-2014.[3] The 2012 track and field season was one of the best seasons ever by a DIII team. The Knights won the 2012 NCAA DIII Indoor title with a meet-record of 99 points and followed that up with a 2012 NCAA DIII Outdoor title with another meet-record of 129 points, with record margin of victory of 77 points ahead of second place.[4] During 2012 they had 22 indoor All-Americans and 26 outdoor All-Americans.

In the IIAC/ARC the Knights have 22 indoor conference championships with 19 of them coming in a row from 1998-2016.[5] In outdoor track and field they have won 23 conference titles, 17 of them consecutively from 2000-2016.[6]

The Wartburg men's track and field team won the 2021 NCAA DIII Outdoor national title.[8] The Knights edged out Wisconsin Eau-Claire to win first title in men's track and field for both the college and head coach Marcus Newsom.[9]

In the IIAC/ARC the Knights have won 11 indoor and 11 outdoor conference titles.[10]

The Wartburg women's cross country team has had a strong history of high finishes at the NCAA Women's Division III Cross Country Championship. They have finished in trophy position 6 times, with a 2nd place finish in 2012 and a 3rd place finish in 2022.[11] Wartburgs Missy Buttry won 3 straight cross country individual championships from 2002-2004. She became the first athlete ever, regardless of gender, to win 3 straight NCAA cross country individual titles and first woman ever to win 3 titles in cross country.[12]