The LIU Post Pioneers (also Long Island–Post Pioneers and formerly the C.W. Post Pioneers) were the athletic teams that represented the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, located in

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, in

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intercollegiate sports through the 2018–19 school year. The Pioneers most recently competed as members of the

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for most sports; the football team was an affiliate of the

Northeast-10 Conference The Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states o ...

. LIU Post has been a member of the ECC since 1989, when the league was established as the

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. 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 current LIU program now competes as the

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, 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

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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:

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*1993–1996: Division II Independent *1997–2000: Eastern Football Conference *2001–2007:

*2008–2012:

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*2013–2018:

*2019–present:

(''after merging with Division I LIU Brooklyn'')

National championships

Team

Individual sports

Baseball

In baseball, future Major League Baseball outfielder

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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.LIU Post Pioneers Mobile – LIU Post Athletic Hall of Fame
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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

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."Records"
''2011 Football Media Guide'', C.W. Post; Long Island University, p. 74.

Lacrosse

LIU Post won three

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s. 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

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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

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in Baltimore. The LIU Post women's lacrosse team had a perfect, undefeated season and won the

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in 2007.

References

{{National Intercollegiate Rugby Association 1958 establishments in New York (state) 2019 disestablishments in New York (state)