page_title: Lindenwood Lions
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: Lindenwood Lions / Sports sponsored / Football
caption_attribution_description: English: Lindenwood University quarterback, David Ortega dives toward the goal line in a game against Kansas Wesleyan.
context_page_description: The Lindenwood Lions and Lady Lions are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Lindenwood University, located in St. Charles, Missouri. The school is primarily a member of the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference, although women's ice hockey and gymnastics and men's volleyball compete in NCAA Division I. The Lions joined the NCAA and the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in the summer of 2013, after completing the transition process from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Heart of America Athletic Conference. On October 4, 2018, Lindenwood announced it would be leaving the MIAA for the Great Lakes Valley Conference effective July 1, 2019.
context_section_description: The current head football coach at Lindenwood is Patrick Ross, who has held the position since 2004. The program began in 1990 under David Schroeder and has accumulated an overall record of 134 wins, 121 losses, and 2 ties.(as of conclusion of the 2012 season). Lions Football has had recent success, winning the HAAC Championship three seasons in a row from 2007–2009. In the 2009 season the Lions went 12–0 and advanced to the NAIA Football Championship Series in Rome, Georgia before losing to the 2009 NAIA Champions University of Sioux Falls by the final score 22–25 and finishing with a record of 13–1. Lions football entered the 2010 season ranked 2nd in the 2010 NAIA Football Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll. The team finished ranked second in the HAAC in 2010, only losing one game in the regular season to first placed MidAmerica Nazarene University 20–26 on September 25, 2010. Lindenwood suffered a 38–46 loss at home in the first round of the NAIA Football Championship Series to the University of Saint Francis and finished the 2010 season 9–2 overall, ranked 1st in the NAIA in scoring with an average of 52.5 points per game and 1st in total offensive yards with an average of 551.5 yards per game. As part of the transition to NCAA Division II, the 2010 schedule would be the last full NAIA schedule played by Lindenwood; the Lions played an independent schedule of NCAA Division I FCS, Division II, and NAIA schools for the 2011 season and finished the season 8–3. The 2011 season included the school's first win over a Division I program when Lindenwood upset Northern Colorado 22–20. The program will begin a full Division II and MIAA conference schedule starting in 2012. The team completed its first full Division II schedule as a member of the MIAA in 2012. In the team's first season in the new conference, the Lions recorded an 8–3 regular season and finished fourth in the conference. Lindenwood accepted a bid to play in the 2012 Mineral Water Bowl against Winona State where the Lions fell to the Warriors 21–41 in their first postseason NCAA bowl appearance.
caption: Quarterback, David Ortega, dives toward the goal line in a game against Kansas Wesleyan.
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