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LIU Post Pioneers

Former US college athletic program

Field	Value
name	LIU Post Pioneers
logo	LIU Post Pioneers logo.svg
logo_width	250
university	C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
association	NCAA
conference	East Coast Conference
Northeast-10 Conference
(Northeast Conference starting in 2019)
division	Division I
director	Bryan Collins
location	Brookville, New York
teams	19
stadium	Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium
basketballarena	Pratt Recreation Center
baseballfield	LIU Post Baseball Field
soccerstadium	Pioneer Soccer Park
softballstadium	LIU Post Softball Complex
nickname	Pioneers
pageurl	http://liupostpioneers.com/

Northeast-10 Conference (Northeast Conference starting in 2019)

The LIU Post Pioneers (also Long Island–Post Pioneers and formerly the C.W. Post Pioneers) were the athletic teams which represented the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports through the 2018–19 school year. The Pioneers most recently competed as members of the East Coast Conference for most sports; the football team was an affiliate of the Northeast-10 Conference. LIU Post has been a member of the ECC since 1989, when the league was established as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference.

The LIU Post Pioneers passed into history after the 2018–19 school year when LIU merged the Pioneers with the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, the Division I program of the school's Brooklyn campus. The LIU program competes as the LIU Sharks, with the new nickname having been selected by polling of alumni and students of the two campuses. Since LIU Brooklyn was a long-established Division I program, the Division II LIU Post teams for sports that had not been sponsored by LIU Brooklyn immediately moved to Division I without the usual transition period for an institution moving to a different division. Teams for sports sponsored by both campuses were merged, and D-II athletes unable to make the D-I teams were allowed to either continue their athletic scholarships without competing or to be granted waivers that allowed them to transfer to another D-II school without having to sit out a season. The LIU Sharks inherited the Northeast Conference membership of the Brooklyn campus.

Varsity teams

Men's sports (8)

Baseball
Basketball
Cross country
Football
Lacrosse
Soccer
Track and field
Wrestling

Women's sports (11)

Basketball
Cross country
Fencing
Equestrian
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track and field
Volleyball
Rugby

Facilities

The Pratt Center is also a venue for Nassau County and New York State high school basketball playoff games, both men's and women's, along with the Clark Center at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

History

Classifications

1958–1972: NCAA College Division
1973–1974, 1978–1985: NCAA Division II
1975–1977, 1986–1992: NCAA Division III
1993–2019: NCAA Division II
2019–present: NCAA Division I (after merging with Division I LIU Brooklyn)

Football conferences

1957–1971: College Division Independent
1972–1976: Metropolitan Intercollegiate Conference
1977–1984: Division II Independent
1985–1992: Liberty Football Conference
1993–1996: Division II Independent
1997–2000: Eastern Football Conference
2001–2007: Northeast-10 Conference
2008–2012: Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
2013–2018: Northeast-10 Conference
2019–present: Northeast Conference (after merging with Division I LIU Brooklyn)

National championships

Team

2013	Limestone	10–7

Individual sports

Baseball

In baseball, future Major League Baseball outfielder Richie Scheinblum batted .415 in 1964, and set the C.W. Post records in career triples (12) and batting average (.395). He was inducted in the college's sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

Football

In 1993, future NFL quarterback Perry Klein played for the C. W. Post Pioneers, throwing for 38 touchdowns. Klein was named the Division II Player of the Year, after throwing for an NCAA Division II record 614 yards passing (623 yards total yardage), 35 completions, and seven touchdowns in a single game, and a Division II record 3,757 regular season yards passing and 4,025 regular season yards in total offense, while also setting a school single-season records of most touchdowns.

Lacrosse

LIU Post won three NCAA Division II Men's Lacrosse Championships. Their first title came in 1996 when they defeated Adelphi 15–10 in the championship and their second came in 2009 when they defeated Le Moyne 8–7 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The third title came in 2010 when they defeated Le Moyne 14–9 in a rematch of the 2009 title game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

The LIU Post women's lacrosse team had a perfect, undefeated season and won the NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship in 2007.

References

(May 15, 2019). "Welcome to the Shark Tank: Long Island University Chooses the Shark as New Mascot". Long Island University.
(October 3, 2018). "LIU combining Post and Brooklyn athletic programs". Newsday..
"#OneLIU website". Long Island University.
"Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship Results". NCAA.org.
[http://liupostpioneers.com/mobile/hof.aspx?hof=30 LIU Post Pioneers Mobile – LIU Post Athletic Hall of Fame]
"Football History and Record Books".
Rob Fernas. (June 30, 1994). "Scramblin' Man : Quarterback Perry Klein Has Been Vilified for Switching Schools--But That Was Before the NFL Called".
Shel Wallman. (January 12, 1994). "Sports Scene Great, growing grid corps". Jewish Post.
Berkowitz, Steve. (November 11, 1993). "Notebook". The Washington Post.
[https://static.post.liuathletics.com/custompages/football/FB%202011.pdf "Records"], ''2011 Football Media Guide'', C.W. Post; Long Island University, p. 74.

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