Parkside Athletics

Under the direction of 2004 GLVC Coach of the Year Tracy Archuleta the 2005 UW-Parkside baseball team captured its first and to-date only GLVC Tournament Championship while advancing to the regional finals of the NCAA Division II Tournament. The 2005 squad had big shoes to fill after the previous season's team tallied a school record for wins, capturing the GLVC regular season title and advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.
 
For an encore, the 2005 Rangers accumulated a program record 45 wins, including a program-record 30 coming in GLVC play, tying Saint Joseph's College for the regular season title. At the conference tournament the Green and White bested the Pumas 7-3 and 11-2 to hoist the league title and advance to the NCAAs for the second straight season. UW-Parkside dropped its opening game at the North Central Regional before battling back to the finals, winning three straight before succumbing 10-3 to Grand Valley State University in the regional championship game.
 
2014 Hall of Fame inductee Adam Brechtl led the Rangers (45-18, 30-8 GLVC) at the plate, securing GLVC Player of the Year honors while six other UW-Parkside players earned All-GLVC distinction. The 2015 club set single season records for runs batted in, hits, runs scored, walks, home runs, doubles, triples while on the mound smashed single season marks for strikeouts, shutouts, saves, and appearances.