Athletics Directors Office Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA 0063.2
Scope and Contents
This collection was updated and the materials are kept in original order. The collection is organized into Track and Field Series, Cross Country Series Women’s Basketball Series, Cheer Team Series, Softball Series, Women’s Soccer, Series, Volleyball Series, NCC Press Releases Series, NCAA Reclassification Series, All Sports Newspaper Clippings and Press Releases, Team Makers Series, Film Reels and VHS Tapes Series,
And Photo Series.
Dates
- 1954 – 2004
- Majority of material found within Bulk 1980 – 2004
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyrights to this collection is held by The North Dakota State University Archives.
Biographical / Historical
The proud tradition of North Dakota State University athletics was one of the finest in the country at the NCAA Division II level for many years. The Bison men's and women's programs were regular contenders for championships on a national scale. Now a Division I program featuring 16 varsity sports, the vision for North Dakota State is "Continuing the Championship Tradition of Bison Athletics."
North Dakota State University's athletic teams have progressed from the "Farmers" in the 1890's to the "Aggies" in the early 1900's to the "Bison," NDSU's current athletic symbol. In 1919, head football coach Stan Borleske developed it because he and members of the football team didn't like being known as "Aggies." Borleske wanted a strong and fierce mascot. The "Bison" was a logical choice. The great animals once roamed the North Dakota prairie in vast numbers, and over the years Bison athletic teams added an additional name, the "Thundering Herd."
NDSU has a storied history of athletic success including 28 team national championships since 1965 in football, women’s basketball, wrestling, softball, men’s cross country and women’s indoor track and field, plus 61 individual championships.
Since completing a reclassification to NCAA Division I in the fall of 2008, the Bison have won eight football national championships, earned five NCAA men’s basketball tournament berths, made 10 softball regionals and one super regional, three NCAA women’s volleyball postseason appearances, two NCAA baseball regionals, as well as NCAA regionals in women’s soccer, and men's and women’s golf while producing several All-Americans in track and field, cross country and wrestling.
North Dakota State has a remarkable history of academic and athletic success. Since the Academic All-America® program was initiated by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the North Dakota State athletic programs have had 91 student-athletes earn 143 CoSIDA Academic All-America® awards, which ranks among the top 25 programs in all levels of college athletics.
Lynn Dorn’s Retirement Notice from NDSU News:
Lynn Dorn, Director of Women’s Athletics at NDSU, has announced her retirement effective March 31, 2015.
“As a new decade begins for Division I for North Dakota State University athletics, so too a new decade begins for me,” she wrote to Interim Director of Athletics Prakash Mathew. “To serve as the Director of Women’s Athletics has been greatly appreciated and I will be forever grateful for the opportunities provided to me.”
Mathew credited Dorn for a distinguished career. “Lynn, you have had a remarkable career at North Dakota State University, and you have given 37 years of dedicated service touching the lives of many people on this campus, particularly student athletes,” he wrote in accepting her retirement.
In Dorn's tenure as the director of women's athletics, NDSU’s women's teams have won seven national titles, 62 North Central Conference titles, 36 Summit League championships and nine conference all-sports trophies, including the Summit League Dr. Helen Smiley Women's All-Sports Award four straight years.
Three student-athletes have been named the Honda Broderick Division II Most Outstanding Female Athlete, five received the NCC's Stan Marshall Award, and there have been 138 All-Americans in six sports since 1981.
Thirty-five women have been selected for 54 CoSIDA Academic All-America® awards and 18 have earned NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships.
Dorn was named one of the five most influential people in Division II athletics by College Sports magazine in 1995, one of seven administrators of the year in 2002 by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators, Women's Basketball Coaches Association Administrator of the Year in 1997.
Dorn said she has enjoyed watching and supporting countless student athletes and coaches as they competed during her many years as the Director of Women’s Athletics. “I now look forward to sharing my time with my family, most especially my father, as well as my young nieces and nephews as they embark on their own athletic ambitions. My retirement provides me the opportunity to refocus my energy, passion and enthusiasm for athletics into other facets of my life.
“I wish to thank the many people including student athletes, coaches, staff, administrators, faculty and friends who have richly impacted my time as Women’s Athletic Director.”
Since completing a reclassification to NCAA Division I in the fall of 2008, the Bison have won eight football national championships, earned five NCAA men’s basketball tournament berths, made 10 softball regionals and one super regional, three NCAA women’s volleyball postseason appearances, two NCAA baseball regionals, as well as NCAA regionals in women’s soccer, and men's and women’s golf while producing several All-Americans in track and field, cross country and wrestling.
North Dakota State has a remarkable history of academic and athletic success. Since the Academic All-America® program was initiated by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the North Dakota State athletic programs have had 91 student-athletes earn 143 CoSIDA Academic All-America® awards, which ranks among the top 25 programs in all levels of college athletics.
Lynn Dorn’s Retirement Notice from NDSU News:
Lynn Dorn, Director of Women’s Athletics at NDSU, has announced her retirement effective March 31, 2015.
“As a new decade begins for Division I for North Dakota State University athletics, so too a new decade begins for me,” she wrote to Interim Director of Athletics Prakash Mathew. “To serve as the Director of Women’s Athletics has been greatly appreciated and I will be forever grateful for the opportunities provided to me.”
Mathew credited Dorn for a distinguished career. “Lynn, you have had a remarkable career at North Dakota State University, and you have given 37 years of dedicated service touching the lives of many people on this campus, particularly student athletes,” he wrote in accepting her retirement.
In Dorn's tenure as the director of women's athletics, NDSU’s women's teams have won seven national titles, 62 North Central Conference titles, 36 Summit League championships and nine conference all-sports trophies, including the Summit League Dr. Helen Smiley Women's All-Sports Award four straight years.
Three student-athletes have been named the Honda Broderick Division II Most Outstanding Female Athlete, five received the NCC's Stan Marshall Award, and there have been 138 All-Americans in six sports since 1981.
Thirty-five women have been selected for 54 CoSIDA Academic All-America® awards and 18 have earned NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships.
Dorn was named one of the five most influential people in Division II athletics by College Sports magazine in 1995, one of seven administrators of the year in 2002 by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators, Women's Basketball Coaches Association Administrator of the Year in 1997.
Dorn said she has enjoyed watching and supporting countless student athletes and coaches as they competed during her many years as the Director of Women’s Athletics. “I now look forward to sharing my time with my family, most especially my father, as well as my young nieces and nephews as they embark on their own athletic ambitions. My retirement provides me the opportunity to refocus my energy, passion and enthusiasm for athletics into other facets of my life.
“I wish to thank the many people including student athletes, coaches, staff, administrators, faculty and friends who have richly impacted my time as Women’s Athletic Director.”
Extent
15.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred by Lynn Dorn (Univ Acc 423).
Legal Status
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Athletics Directors Office Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository
Contact:
West Building
3551 7th Avenue N
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building
3551 7th Avenue N
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu