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Winner of three Learfield Sports Directors' Cups as the nation's top NAIA athletics program, Oklahoma Baptist boasts a championship tradition few can rival.  With 34 titles on its resume, including 31 since 2005, OBU Athletics has earned its reputation as one of America's elite institutions.

The Bison earned the program's first national title in 1966 as the men's basketball program, behind All-American and future NBA star Al Tucker, defeated Georgia Southern, 88-59.

In 1990, the men's track and field program broke a 23-year title-less streak on Bison Hill, winning the outdoor national championship.

Fifteen years later, the track and field program once again added to OBU's list of champions with the women's team taking the indoor title.

So began an incredible streak of 18 national championships won by Bison teams over a 10 year period, including titles by the track, swimming and diving and men's basketball programs.

OBU added varsity swimming and diving in 2012, and both the men's and women's programs dominated the national scene over the next five years. The men's program earned four straight NAIA titles from 2012-15, while the women's team won three straight (2013-15), finishing as the national runner-up in 2012.

In 2013, OBU set a collegiate record by winning an unprecedented four national championships in one day as the men's and women's swimming and diving teams captured their respective titles, while the men's and women's track and field programs took home indoor championships.

The women's track and field program leads all Bison teams with 12 national championships, while the men's track program ranks second with seven. Men's swimming and diving (4) and women's swimming and diving (3) are next, followed by men's basketball (2), and baseball (2), softball (1), men's tennis (1) and women's tennis (1), STUNT (1).
 
OBU NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (33)
Year Sport Coach Division
2024 STUNT Jessica Stiles College STUNT Assoc.
2017 Baseball Bobby Cox NCCAA
2017 Softball Pam Fink NCCAA
2017 Women's Track & Field (Outdoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2017 Men's Track & Field (Outdoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2017 Men's Tennis Peter McCorkle NCCAA
2017 Women's Tennis Peter McCorkle NCCAA
2017 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2017 Men's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2016 Baseball Bobby Cox NCCAA
2016 Women's Track & Field (Outdoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2016 Men's Track & Field (Outdoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2016 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2016 Men's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NCCAA
2015 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2015 Women's Swimming & Diving Sam Freas NAIA
2015 Men's Swimming & Diving Sam Freas NAIA
2014 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2014 Women's Swimming & Diving Sam Freas NAIA
2014 Men's Swimming & Diving Sam Freas NAIA
2013 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2013 Men's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2013 Women's Swimming & Diving Sam Freas NAIA
2013 Men's Swimming & Diving Sam Freas NAIA
2012 Women's Track & Field (Outdoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2012 Men's Swimming & Diving Sam Freas NAIA
2011 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2010 Men's Basketball Doug Tolin NAIA
2010 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2007 Men's Track & Field (Outdoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2007 Women's Track & Field (Indoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
2005 Women's Track & Field (Outdoor) Ford Mastin NAIA
1990 Men's Track & Field (Outdoor) Terry Collins NAIA
1966 Men's Basketball Bob Bass NAIA

OBU's tennis and swimming and diving programs were discontinued in 2021.