Campbellsville, Kentucky - With the participation of three Campbellsville Track and Field athletes at the NAIA National Championships last week, Campbellsville University athletics wrapped up another successful competition season.

In the 2007-08 year the school produced 35 All Mid-South Conference team members while another 33 athletes were selected as Honorable Mention All Mid-South Conference.

But perhaps the most impressive statistic is the continued strength that CU athletes show on the field or court and in the classroom.  Campbellsville produced 67 Academic All Mid-South Conference selections, and 25 of those went on to be named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes on the national level.  Campbellsville's 2008 Wrestling team ranked third in the NAIA in team GPA, the 2007 Softball team was 12th academically and the 2007 women's basketball team was 13th in team GPA.

Overall for the year, Campbellsville's teams finished 172-133 among combined records of basketball, volleyball, soccer, tennis, football, wrestling, baseball and softball.   Campbellsville's men's golf team won six tournaments this season while the women's golf team won finished 2nd in five events with a young, upcoming team.  Men's Cross Country won two meets while the women won one event this year.

Campbellsville produced two second team All-Americans in Teresa Masava for Volleyball and Nestor Colmenares for Men's Basketball and had three Wrestling All-Americans in Zach Flake, David Clemens and Glen Jackson.   Tiger athletics produced 22 Mid-South Conference Players of the Week, 7 NAIA Region XI Players of the Week and one NAIA National Player of the Week in 2007-08.   Campbellsville also had four athletes earn Player of the Year honors in their respective sports in the Mid-South Conference and Men's Golf Coach P.J. Throckmorton was the MSC and NAIA Region XI Golf Coach of the Year.

Highlights of the 2007-08 season included:

Men's Basketball making an impressive run through the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City.  The Tigers won three games and made their first-ever Fab Four Semi-Final appearance.  In a nationally televised game, the Tigers battled tough against defending National Champion and eventual repeat champ Oklahoma City before falling short to end the year 27-10.

Tiger Baseball and Softball both continued to dominate in Mid-South Conference Tournament play.  Baseball won it's fourth straight MSC Tourney title and made it's way to the finals of the NAIA Region XI Tournament while Softball won it's third straight MSC Tournament.

Volleyball continued to be among the elite in the MSC by winning a share of the regular season championship and then winning the NAIA Region XI Tournament and advancing into the National Tournament for the first time in program history.

Men's Golf won the Mid-South Conference Regular Season, Tournament and NAIA Region XI Touranment and advanced into the NAIA Nationals for what is thought to be the fourth in program history.

Campbellsville's Wrestling team was ranked pre-season #1 in the nation, a first for any CU athletic program, and battled through injuries to key wrestlers to finish among the elite teams in the nation in only the program's fourth year of existence.

Men's and Women's Soccer, Men's and Women's Tennis, Cross Country and Track all had improved seasons with cross country sending two runners to the NAIA National Championships while Track sent three athletes to the National Championship Meet and had several school records broken in 2008.

Campbellsville had a women's swimming team for the first time in nearly a decade and several new signings for next year have given rise to optimism on the future of that program.

The 2007 football season saw the end of the Jim Deaton era and the hiring of Perry Thomas as the fourth coach of the Tigers and with a theme of "Restore the Roar", expectations are for a much improved 2008 campaign which kicks off on August 30th.

In late spring of 2008 Campbellsville officially dedicated the Gosser Gymnasium which will be the home of Tiger Wrestling and in the fall of 2007 completed a renovation of Tiger Stadium and Finley Field, along with a completely new baseball stadium and press box.