BASEBALL

• Louisville set a school record for wins in 2017 finishing with a 53-12 mark overall after making the program's fourth College World Series appearance, including the third in the last five seasons.
• The Cardinals closed the season ranked No. 5 in every major national poll, their highest end-of-season ranking in program history.
• Louisville won its third straight ACC Atlantic Division championship.
• Brendan McKay became the program’s first National Player of the Year, sweeping all seven major honors, including the Golden Spikes Award and Dick Howser Trophy, and became the highest MLB Draft selection in school history going fourth overall to the Tampa Bay Rays.
• Dan McDonnell was named as the Baseball American National Coach of the Year, while Lincoln Henzman was selected as the NCBWA Stopper of the Year.
• McKay was named as the ACC Player of the Year, McDonnell won his third straight ACC Coach of the Year honor and Devin Hairston was selected as the ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
• Five different Louisville players earned All-America honors in 2017, including a trio of first team selections in McKay, Henzman, and Drew Ellis.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

• Louisville (25-9 record in 2016-17) is one of four Division I schools in the nation which has won 20 or more games in each of the past 15 seasons. The Cardinals accomplished the feat while facing the nation’s third-toughest schedule by the RPI.
• Louisville is one of just three schools that have been ranked in the final Associated Press poll in each of the past seven years (also Kansas, 17 years; Duke, 10 years). Ranking 10th in the final AP poll, UofL has appeared in seven consecutive final AP polls from 2011-17, matching the longest streak in school history (also attained from 1977-83).
• Louisville earned its 42nd NCAA Tournament appearance as a No. 2 seed in the event and No. 8 seed overall. The Cardinals were among a league-record nine ACC teams that were selected to participate in the 2017 NCAA Championship, with league member North Carolina earning the title.
• Louisville posted a 12-6 record in its third season in the ACC, finishing in a three-way tie for second in arguably the toughest league in the nation with six of its members ranked among the nation’s top 25 teams. Louisville has won at least 10 league games for 10 straight seasons.
• Louisville defeated the regular season champion of four different conferences last season in Kentucky (Southeastern), Purdue (Big Ten), Wichita State (Missouri Valley) and Texas Southern (SWAC). Three other non-conference opponents that UofL beat were second or third in their respective leagues in Grand Canyon (WAC, T2nd), Old Dominion (C-USA, T3rd) and Southern Illinois (Missouri Valley, T3rd).

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

• Louisville secured a 29-8 overall record, marking the seventh-consecutive season the program has tallied at least 20 victories. The win total is tied for third most in school history.
• The Cardinals advanced to the seventh NCAA Sweet 16 in program history, their fifth in the last seven years.
• Louisville handed Tennessee its first NCAA Tournament second round loss in the Vols’ program history.
• The Cardinals collected and then surpassed 800 program victories during the year, moving into a tie for 39th all-time on the Division I wins list.
• Louisville registered five victories over AP top-25 teams in 2016-17: No. 17 Kentucky, No. 25 Syracuse, No. 14 Miami, No. 23 USF, and No. 17 NC State.
• Asia Durr (first team), Myisha Hines-Allen (second team), and Mariya Moore (second team) earned Blue Ribbon Panel all-ACC honors, making Louisville the only school in the ACC with three combined selections between the first and second teams.
• Myisha Hines-Allen, Mariya Moore, and Asia Durr each reached 1,000 career points in 2016-17, the third time in school history three teammates reached the plateau in the same season.

CROSS COUNTRY

• The women's cross country team finished 31st in its first NCAA Championship appearance. Senior Edwin Kibichiy took eighth at the NCAA Championship, earning All-america honors and securing the best individual finish in school history.
• At the NCAA Southeast Regional, the women's cross country team placed second to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship. Edwin Kibichiy finished 11th to advance to the NCAA Championship for the third-consecutive year.
• The women's cross country team registered its best finish at the ACC Championships since joining the league, placing fourth. Edwin Kibichiy set a new school record to finish second, leading the Louisville men's team to a seventh-place finish.
• Edwin Kibichiy was named the 2016 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's cross country. Bailey Davis, Caroline Gosser, and Mia Ross were named to the 2016 All-ACC Academic cross country teams.
• Rachel Pease was recognized as the Atlantic Coast Conference's Sportsmanship Award Winner for the 2016-17 academic year along with Clemson’s Evie Tate. Pease and Tate received international news coverage on Oct. 27 after aiding a fellow runner in duress during the 2016 ACC Cross Country Championships at Cary, N.C.

FIELD HOCKEY

• Louisville finished the season with a 15-6 overall record and made its third-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. The Cardinals were ranked No. 9 in the Penn Monto/National Field Hockey Coaches Poll after spending the entire regular season ranked in the top 10, reaching as high as No. 6.
• Head coach Justine Sowry was named Front Rush NFHCA West Region Coach of the Year, marking the first time a UofL coach has earned the honor.
• Sophomore goalkeeper Ayeisha McFerran was selected to the Longstreth/NFHCA All-America first team to earn her second straight All-America honor. Senior midfielder Erin McCrudden was named to the second team.
• UofL placed a program-best five players on the 2016 all-ACC teams. Ayeisha McFerran was selected to the first team, while freshman Minout Mink, junior Nicole Woods and seniors Erin McCrudden and Lizzie Gittens earned second team honors.
• Mink led the team with 15 goals and 33 points. She owns the school record for most goals and points scored by a freshman.
• McCrudden led the ACC and was second in the nation with 18 assists in 20 games.
• McFerran (14-6) led the ACC with six shutouts and stood second in the conference and ninth in the nation with a 1.27 goals against average.

FOOTBALL

• The Cardinals finished ranked in the top 25 for the first time since 2014 and a program-best 13th in the College Football Playoff Rankings. Louisville reached as high as No. 3 in the AP poll during the year.
• Quarterback Lamar Jackson won the school’s first Heisman Trophy Award as well as AP, Walter Camp, Maxwell, and ACC Player of the Year awards.
• Louisville had two players - Colin Holba in the sixth round by Pittsburgh and Josh Harvey-Clemons in the seventh round by Washington - taken in the NFL Draft, marking at least one selection for the fourth-straight season.
• The Cardinals finished No. 3 in the nation in total offense (532.7) and sixth in scoring offense (42.5) – both the highest since 2006.
• Louisville scored 50 or more points in six games, including a season-high 70 versus Charlotte.
• Louisville, ranked 10th at the time, earned a 63-20 upset win over second-ranked Florida State. It is the highest-ranked opponent Louisville has defeated in school history. The Cardinals' 63 points is the most scored against a ranked opponent in school history.
• Cornerback Jaire Alexander led the squad with five interceptions, including two versus Clemson and Virginia.

MEN'S GOLF

• Keegan de Lange, who led the team with a 73.06 average, advanced to the NCAA Regional as an individual.
• Keegan de Lange and Simon Zach were named to the all-ACC Academic Team.
• Louisville captured the Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate team title.
• Keegan de Lange, who had a season-best third-place showing at the Mobile Sports Authority Intercollegiate, posted seven top-20 finishes.

WOMEN'S GOLF

• Louisville was selected to the NCAA Columbus Regional, the program’s fourth-consecutive NCAA Regional Championship appearance.
• The Cardinals secured four top-five tournament finishes, including a pair of third-place showings: Central District Invitational and Hurricane Invitational.
• Lauren Hartlage was voted to the all-ACC team and the league’s freshman of the year. She became only the second golfer in program history to earn the award. Hartlage broke the freshman record with 14 rounds even or below par, and her 73.50 stroke average ranks sixth in program history. She had nine top-20 showings, tied for the second most in a season in school history.
• Olivia Cason and Lauren Hartlage were named to the All-ACC Academic Women’s Golf Team. Cason earned the honor for the second time in her career.
• The women’s golf team received an APR Public Recognition Award for ranking among top 10 percent in the sport’s latest APR.
• The Cardinals had five student-athletes named WGCA All-American Scholars, the most in the Atlantic Coast Conference. It tied a program high that was matched three times previously (2004, 2012, and 2013).

LACROSSE

• The women’s lacrosse team earned its fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament bid after finishing the season with an 11-8 mark. The Cardinals have reached the double-digit win plateau in nine of their 10 years of existence.
• Louisville placed four on IWLCA All-Region West/Midwest Region teams: Hannah Koloski, Brittany Read, and Meghan Siverson earned first-team honors, while Stephanie McNamara earned second-team accolades.
• Louisville goalie Brittany Read was named the ACC Defender of the Year. Read, the first Louisville player to earn an ACC Player of the Year award, led the conference in saves (186), save percentage (.518), and saves per game (10.33). Her 9.58 goals against average ranked 21st nationally.
• Louisville had three players selected to the all-ACC teams. Hannah Koloski and Brittany Read were named to the first team, while Meghan Siverson was voted to the second team.
• Brittany Read (second team), Hannah Koloski (second team), and Meghan Siverson (third team) were selected to the IWLCA All-America teams.
• The Cardinals earned their 100th program victory during the 2017 campaign, while head coach Kellie Young recorded her 150th career win.
• Hannah Koloski and Stephanie McNamara represented Louisville on the All-ACC Academic Women’s Lacrosse Team. It was Koloski’s third-consecutive season earning the accolade.

ROWING

• Louisville rowed to a fifth-place finish at the ACC Championships as all five boats advanced to the grand finals.
• The Cardinals closed the season among the teams receiving votes outside the final US Rowing/CRCA Division I top 20 poll.
• Junior Kirsti Harrison was named as a CRCA Second Team All-America selection and was a first team All-Region honoree.
• Junior Sarah Podwojski was an All-ACC First Team honoree and Harrison was an all-ACC second team member.
• The Cardinals had 10 rowers named as 2017 CRCA Scholar Athletes, the most for any ACC program.

MEN'S SOCCER

• Louisville closed season ranked No. 6 in the nation after advancing to an NCAA Championship quarterfinal for the fourth time in seven seasons.
• The Cardinals were 14-6-2 overall and second in the ACC Atlantic Division with a 5-2-1 conference record. The 14 wins for Louisville were the third most in school history.
• Tim Kubel was a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy, was an NSCAA second team All-America selection and was an all-ACC first team honoree.
• Mohamed Thiaw was an all-ACC first team honoree after leading the Cardinals with 12 goals, the most for a Louisville player since 2003.
• Kubel ranked fifth in the nation and equaled a school record with 11 assists, while Thiaw was second nationally with seven game-winning goals.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

• Louisville finished the season at 7-7-4 overall. As a team, the Cardinals’ defense held opponents to just 1.11 goals scored per game and just 11.3 shots per game.
• Defender Gabrielle Vincent earned a spot on the women's soccer All-ACC third team. She also helped the defense to five shutouts this season.
• Goalkeeper Taylor Bucklin was named to the 2016 All-ACC Academic Women's Soccer Team for the second-straight year.
• The Cardinals jumped into the rankings during the season, ranked 18th by Soccer America on Sept. 28. It was the first time back in the polls since they appeared at No. 24 on Oct. 29, 2013, in the Soccer America poll. The Cardinals stayed in the polls for two weeks.

SOFTBALL

• UofL finished the season with a 31-19 overall record, going 14-8 in ACC play. The Cardinals placed second in the ACC regular season standings.
• Louisville reached the 30-win mark for the 14th-straight season and the 16th time in the 18-year history of the program.
• Five Cardinals earned all-ACC honors, with seniors Maryssa Becker, Jordan McNary, Morgan Meyer and junior Nicole Pufahl being named to the second team. Caitlin Ferguson was selected to the all-freshman team.
• Junior Nicole Pufahl led the team with a .366 batting average, eight home runs, 43 RBIs and 37 runs. The centerfielder also paced the Cards in multi-hit games (16) and multi-RBI games (12).
• Louisville had five players in the starting lineup batting over .300 on the season.
• Becker (22-10) led the Cardinals in the circle with a 2.53 ERA and 163 strikeouts in 205.0 innings of work.
• Senior Jordan McNary reached base in 33 of her last 35 games and was a career-best 14-for-15 in stolen bases.

SWIMMING & DIVING

• At the NCAA women's championships, Mallory Comerford tied Katie Ledecky in the 200 free to share NCAA crown, helping the women’s team to a sixth-place finish.
• At the NCAA men's championships, UofL had 19 All-Americans distinctions and the Cardinals finished 11th.
• At USA Championships/World Trials, Kelsi Worrell won the 50M fly and Mallory Comerford won the 100M freestyle. Andrea Cottrell and Zach Harting qualified for World University Games in Taipei. Nick Albiero, who won the 18 & Under national title in the 100m fly, earned a slot in the Junior World Championships.
• Arthur Albiero was named an assistant coach for the Team USA Swimming World Championship Team.
• At the FINA Short Course World Championships in Windsor, Canada, Grigory Tarasevich won gold, Mallory Comerford won two golds and a silver, and Carlos Claverie set a Venezuelan national record.
• At the USA College Challenge in Indianapolis, Mallory Comerford and Andrea Cottrell represented the U.S., while head coach Arthur Albiero served as the U.S. head coach.
• Grigory Tarasevich, Carlos Claverie and Andrea Cottrell were named CollegeSwimming's National Swimmers of the Week.

MEN'S TENNIS

• The Cardinals produced a 22-10 overall record, with a 6-6 mark in the midst of an ACC slate that included five teams ranked in the top 25 and earned seven NCAA berths.
• After a rebuilding season in 2016, Louisville returned to the NCAA Team Championships and advanced to the regional finals. The NCAA appearance marked the 12th in Louisville’s program history and the seventh in the last nine years.
• The doubles team of senior Sean Donohue and freshman Parker Wynn earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Doubles Championship after spending the majority of the season in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s top 25 rankings.
• Christopher Morin-Kougoucheff was named to the all-ACC second team, while Parker Wynn earned third team honors.
• Parker Wynn led the team with a 42-10 overall singles record, setting a school mark for most singles wins by a freshman and tying Louisville's record for most wins in a season.
• The Cardinals earned an APR Public Recognition Award for ranking among top 10 percent in the sport’s latest APR.

WOMEN'S TENNIS

• No. 14-seeded Louisville upset No. 11-seed Syracuse 4-2 at the 2017 ACC Tennis Championship.
• Louisville knocked off 40th-ranked Virginia 4-3 in the last home match of the season.
• The Cardinals finished the year 15-13 overall, 3-11 in conference play.
• Mariana Humberg was named to the ACC All-Academic Squad.
• Mariana Humberg was ranked No. 10 in the region in doubles. She made the quarterfinals of the ITA Regional and was undefeated in the Louisville Tennis Classic. She joined the 20-win club in singles with a 23-12 mark.
• Abbie Pahz was a Louisville Tennis Classic winner and reached the quarterfinals in doubles with Humberg at the ITA Regional.
• Freshman Tiffany Huber joined the 20-win club in singles with a 20-12 mark.

TRACK & FIELD

• Edwin Kibichiy won the 2017 NCAA 3,000m steeplechase title, becoming the second Cardinal to win an NCAA outdoor title.
• The Louisville women and men had top 25 finishes at the NCAA Championships. The Louisville women finished tied for 18th with 11 points for the best finish in school history at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The Cardinal men finished 22nd with 11.5 points for the third-best finish in school history at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
• Emmonnie Henderson and Edwin Kibichiy earned major awards during the outdoor season. Kibichiy was named the ACC Men’s Track Performer of the Year after winning the 3,000m steeplechase at the NCAA Championships. Emmonnie Henderson was vote the USTFCCCA Southeast Region Women's Field Athlete of the Year.
• The Louisville track and field team finished the season with 12 Cardinals earning All-America honors. The Cardinals earned five Indoor All-America honors, attaining seven outdoor All-America citations. Emmonnie Henderson, Dolly Nyemah, Damar Robinson, and Holly Hankenson earned indoor All-America honors. Henderson, Edwin Kibichiy, Jerin Allen, Martice Moore, Trevor Troutman and Hankenson earned outdoor All-America honors.
• Louisville finished with seven ACC champions. Three Cardinals won event titles at the ACC Indoor Championships: Emmonnie Henderson (shot put), Dolly Nyemah (weight throw), and Damar Robinson (high jump). Four Cardinals won event titles at the ACC Outdoor Championships: Emmonnie Henderson (shot put), Edwin Kibichiy (3000m steeplechase), Jerin Allen (high jump), and Bre’Yana Wash (long jump).
• Twenty-seven Cardinals earned all-ACC honors in 2017. Seven Cardinals earned first team honors at the ACC Outdoor Championships, while 11 athletes earned second team honors. Nine Cardinals earned first team honors at the ACC Indoor Championships while three athletes earned second team honors.

VOLLEYBALL

• The volleyball team reached as high as No. 21 in the coaches’ poll.
• Molly Sauer became the 11th player in program history to join the 1,000-dig club. She was the first to do it in her sophomore season.
• Molly Sauer was named to the All-ACC/Big Ten Challenge Team, when she had 26 digs against No. 5 Minnesota and No. 2 Wisconsin at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
• Tess Clark and Molly Sauer earned All-Active Ankle Challenge honors. Clark had 40 kills over the three-match weekend and hit .372, with eight blocks. Sauer had 59 digs and five aces.
• Kali Eaken had three 50-plus assists matches, led by her 58 at Syracuse.
• Melanie McHenry was named MVP of the Hampton Inn Invite at Bowling Green State. Tess Clark was named to the all-tournament team.
• In the summer of 2017, Jasmine Bennett and Amanda Green selected to compete on the U.S. Collegiate National Team.