Choosing the college that’s right for you is serious business. Knowledge is power, so learning as much as possible about the school in which you’re interested will help ensure your pick is the fit for you. Northwestern College, located in Orange City, Iowa, is a Christian liberal arts college with a serious commitment to excellence–excellence in the classroom, in your personal life and in athletics. According to Athletic Director Barry Brandt, “We see sport as a superb platform through which to help young people develop mentally, physically, socially and spiritually into all they have the God-given ability to be.” A member of the Great Plains Athletic Conference, the Northwestern Red Raiders compete against institutions with similarly high caliber athletic programs. Since the inception of the GPAC in 2000, 19 team national championships have been garnered by member institutions, including six won by Red Raider teams. In 2001, both Red Raider basketball squads won the national crown, just one of three teams in all of the college ranks to win both titles in the same year. The Northwestern men’s team won the championship once again in 2003 while the women's basketball team has won three of the past four NAIA Division II championships, holding the trophy in 2008 and then going back-to-back in 2010 and 2011. At Northwestern, commitment, responsibility and discipline aren’t just catchy words on paper. Putting these character traits into action produces tangible outcomes. For instance, 140 Red Raider athletes earned NAIA All-American honors and an even greater number, 304, were honored as NAIA Scholar-Athletes over the last 10 years. In the past, members of the baseball team have traveled to Moldova and Romania to conduct baseball clinics for children and to assist in orphanages. Members of the volleyball team have traveled to Brazil to work at an orphanage, Lar Batista Biblico, while a number of NW wrestlers traveled to the Czech Republic to facilitate wrestling clinics over the past years. In addition, the Red Raider football team served in Italy while the women's basketball team traveled to Costa Rica.
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