The Lynn Fighting Knights are the athletic teams that represent
Lynn University
Lynn University is a private university in Boca Raton, Florida. Founded in 1962, the university awards associate, baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees. It is named for the Lynn family (Christine E. and Eugene M. Lynn). It has a total ...
, located in
Boca Raton, Florida
Boca Raton ( ; es, Boca Ratón, link=no, ) is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It was first incorporated on August 2, 1924, as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925. The population was 97,422 in the ...
, in
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
Division II intercollegiate sports. The Fighting Knights compete as members of the
Sunshine State Conference for all 14 varsity sports. Lynn has been a member of the SSC since 1997.
Varsity teams
Lynn University announced it will add
lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...
for the 2014 season. The sport will be the third addition in recent years, after the university added women's cross country and swimming in 2012.
List of teams
Men's sports (6)
*Baseball
*Basketball
*Golf
*Lacrosse
*Soccer
*Tennis
Women's sports (8)
*Basketball
*Cross country
*Golf
*Soccer
*Softball
*Swimming and diving
*Tennis
*Volleyball
National championships
Lynn University teams have won a total of 22
NCAA and
NAIA national championships, and 30
championships.
Team
Notable athletes
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Jean AlexandreMidfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
,
San Jose Earthquakes
The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional soccer team based in San Jose, California. The Earthquakes compete as a member club of the Western Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). Originally as the San Jose Clash, the franchise ...
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Tal Erel
Tal Erel (טל אראל; born June 16, 1996) is an Israeli baseball player for the Israel National Baseball Team. He has played college baseball at Lynn University. He played for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of ...
Baseball catcher for the
Israel national baseball team
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*
Scott Gordon Defender,
Fort Lauderdale Strikers Fort Lauderdale Strikers may refer to:
*Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983), member of North American Soccer League from 1977 to 1983
*Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1988–1994), member of American Soccer League from 1988 to 1989 and American Profes ...
*
Svetlana Gounkina Russian golfer; multiple Russian national champion; bronze medalist in the World Golfers Championship
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Tommy Kahnle
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Pitcher for the
New York Yankees
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Tim Melia
Timothy Melia (; born May 15, 1986) is an American professional Association football, soccer player who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City.
Youth and college
Melia was born i ...
Goalkeeper
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,
Sporting Kansas City
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Jared Montz
Jared Montz (born December 26, 1982) is a retired American soccer player.
Professional career
Montz played college soccer at Lynn University for four years, where he finished with 5 goals and 16 assists in 67 matches. He helped lead the Lynn F ...
Former
Defender,
Chicago Fire, and founder of Online Soccer Academy
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Melissa Ortiz
Melissa Marie Ortiz Matallana (born 24 January 1990) is an American-born Colombian Olympic and professional footballer who plays for the Colombia national team as a striker or attacking midfielder.
Early life
Ortiz was born in West Palm Beach, ...
Former player for Colombia's Women's National Soccer Team
NCAA sanctions
On July 17, 2007, NCAA vacated Lynn's 2005 Women's Division II Softball Championship due to extra benefits given to two players. The NCAA found that former coach Thomas Macera gave two Lynn softball players cash payments totaling more than $3,000. Lynn was also placed on probation for two years.
["NCAA vacates Lynn's 2005 softball title", Palm Beach Post Staff, ''Palm Beach Post'', July 17, 2007]
References
External links
Official website of Lynn Fighting Knights Athletics
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