page_title: Cornerstone University
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: Cornerstone University / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: The pond at Cornerstone University during the winter. Bernice Hanson Center in Background
context_page_description: Cornerstone University is an independent, non-denominational Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
  Cornerstone University has undergraduate and graduate programs, two seminaries, and a radio division called Cornerstone University Radio. It is a liberal arts university.
  In the 1990s and early 2000s Cornerstone University expanded and transformed, changing its name, becoming a university, increasing enrollment, adding facilities and improving the campus, introducing an adult program including the MBA and a leadership development experience, adding an Honors Program and "Civitas" Core Curriculum, changing its mascot, colors, and logo, and winning a men's national basketball championship in 1999, 2011 and 2015.
  Students are required to abide by a "Lifestyle Statement" intended to reflect trinitarianism. The university offers 60 academic programs in the arts, sciences, humanities, Bible, teacher education, computers and business and journalism.
context_section_description: Cornerstone University teams are known as the Golden Eagles. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), competing in the Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis track & field and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball. The official mascot is Rocky the Golden Eagle. The baseball team's honorary mascot is Buster the bulldog.
  National Championships:
  1999 - Men's Basketball - NAIA Division II
  2007 - Stephanie Allers - Women's Outdoor Track and Field - 200 meters
  2007 - Derek Scott - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - 1500 meters
  2010 - Zach Ripley - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - Steeplechase
  2010 - Joel Leong - Men's Indoor Track & Field - 35 lb. Weight Throw
  2011 - Men's Basketball - NAIA Division II
  2014 - Cody Risch - Men's Indoor Track & Field - 3,000m Racewalk
  2014 - Louis Falland - Men's Indoor Track & Field - Mile
  2014 - Brittany Green - Women's Outdoor Track & Field - Heptathlon
  2015 - Brittany Murray- Women's Indoor Track & Field - Pentathlon
  2015 - Men's Basketball - NAIA Division II
  2018 - Collin DeYoung - Men's Cross Country - 8,000 meters
  National Runners-up:
  2002 - Women's Basketball - NAIA Division II
  2004 - Derek Scott - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - 3,000m steeplechase
  2005 - Shannon Burmaster - Women's Indoor Track & Field - High Jump
  2005 - Cathi Velzen - Women's Outdoor Track & Field - Heptathlon
  2006 - Derek Scott - Men's Indoor Track & Field - Mile
  2006 - Stephanie Allers - Women's Outdoor Track & Field - 200 meters
  2008 - Danielle Rowe - Women's Indoor Track & Field - High Jump
  2008 - Zach Ripley - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - Steeplechase
  2009 - Brandi Hagan - Women's Indoor Track & Field - Pole Vault
  2009 - Zach Ripley - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - Steeplechase
  2011 - Kris Shear - Men's Indoor Track & Field - 3,000 meter Racewalk
  2012 - Cody Risch - Men's Indoor Track & Field - 3,000 meter Racewalk
  2012 - Anita Souza - Women's Indoor Track & Field - 60 meter hurdles
  2012 - Cody Risch - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - 5,000 meter Racewalk
  2012 - Janelle Brown- Women's Outdoor Track & Field- 5,000 meter Racewalk
  2013 - Ryan Versen - Men's Indoor Track & Field - 400 meters
  2013 - Louis Falland - Men's Indoor Track & Field - Mile
  2013 - Cody Risch - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - 5,000m Racewalk
  2014 - Brittany Green - Women's Indoor Track & Field - Pentathlon
  2014 - Julie Oosterhouse- Women's Indoor Track & Field - 800m
  2014 - Tess Odegard - Women's Indoor Track & Field - High Jump
  2014 - Louis Falland - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - Steeplechase
  2015 - Brittany Murray - Women's Indoor Track & Field - High Jump
  2015 - Brittany Murray - Women's Outdoor Track & Field - Heptathlon
  2016 - Kayla Ovokaitys - Women's Indoor Track & Field - 3,000m Racewalk
  2016 - Tess Odegard - Women's Indoor Track & Field - High Jump
  2016 - Nate VanderWal - Men's Outdoor Track & Field - 5,000m Racewalk
  2017 - Colin DeYoung - Men's Indoor Track & Field - Mile
  2017 - Joey Deboer, Jake Brinks, Kevin Vroegh, Colin DeYoung - Men's Indoor Track & Field - Distance Medley Relay
  2017 - NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
caption: A view of the Bernice Hansen Center
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