November 15 – We take a look at some of the top LCU athletic moments over the years from November 15. Pictured are members of the 1997 NAIA national championship men's cross country program, as they won the national title on this date.
 
Men's Basketball

 

• Fourteen Chaps made their way into the scoring column in a 111-55 win over Open Bible College during Lubbock Christian's season-opener in 2013. Anthony Brancato scored a game-high 16 points, AJ Luckey recorded 14, Eli Baker tallied 13 and Isaac Cardona added in 11 in his first game as a Chap.

 
Men's Cross Country

• Lubbock Christian won its eighth and final NAIA Men's Cross Country National Title in 1997. The Chaparrals finished with 40 points, easily outdistancing second-place Life (Ga.) College. The race, hosted in Kenosha, Wis., was held on a course made somewhat treacherous by six inches of snow, and it also snowed during the race. Daniel Kibungei paced the LCU effort, taking third individually with a time of 26:16. LCU head coach Darrell Price retired at the end of the academic year, and the school ended the cross country and track program. It was restarted in 2006.

 
Volleyball

 

• No.4-seeded LCU garnered an upset win in the opening day of the 1996 NAIA Southwest Region West Independent Sectional Tournament in Plainview, Texas, as they defeated No.1-seeded Houston Baptist 3-1 for their final win of the season. April Willis (Cecava) and April Willis co-led LCU with 13 kills. LCU won despite being without kills leader DeAngela Hill Sanders, who was injured.
• LCU opened the 2002 SAC Tournament in Bethany, Okla. with a 3-0 win over Wayland Baptist to advance to the tournament championship match against John Brown.
• LCU punched their ticket to the 1997 NAIA Southwest Regional Tournament in Austin, Texas, revenging a 1996 elimination loss to Wayland Baptist, with a 4-1 win over WBU to capture the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament in Plainview, Texas. Willis (Cecava) led LCU with a 20-point performance. She joined Hill Sanders and Ashley Hardin on the All-Conference squad. Hardin became the third Lady Chaps member to reach 2,000 career digs.
• The Lady Chaps won the 2003 SAC Tournament in Plainview, defeating John Brown and Wayland Baptist 3-0. Beth Ratliff (Lankford) led LCU against JBU with 11 kills, and it was Stacy Simpson (Thompson) with a double-double (20 digs, 10 kills) and Magan McCormick (Hupf) leading LCU with 15 kills to help carry the Lady Chaps to the title over WBU.
• Wayland Baptist was shedding tears of joy after defeating the LCU for the first time in eleven years with a semifinals win at the 2008 Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament, but the Lady Pioneers were shedding tears of sorrow two days later at Abe Lemons Arena (Oklahoma City, Okla.), as the No. 25 Lady Chaparrals defeated Wayland Baptist 3-1 to receive the conference's lone automatic bid to the NAIA National Championships. The game was a "Play-In Match" between the SAC's regular season champion and tournament champion to decide the conference's lone automatic berth. LCU's Suzanne Childress, Kelsey Odell (Williams) and Rachel Stuyvesant (Ketcherside) each had a double-double. Childress posted 14 kills and 13 digs, Odell (Williams) chipped in 14 kills and 15 digs and Stuyvesant (Ketcherside) had 10 digs to go along with 49 assists.  Courtney Yonke (Boyd) led the Lady Chaps with 34 digs.

 
Women's Basketball

 

• The first win of the 1986-87 season occurred at the Sul Ross Tournament in Alpine, Texas, as LCU defeated Mary Hardin-Baylor 72-71 behind a 33-point performance from 5-8 post player Nettie Gilbreath.
• After playing the prior two games over the prior two nights in Alpine, Texas, LCU returned home during the 1993-94 season and defeated McMurry 83-49 to claim the 100^th women's basketball career coaching victory for Dave Carter.