As part of the annual Homecoming festivities, the Forester Athletic Department will continue to celebrate conference championships won 10, 25, and 50 years ago during the Homecoming festivities on Saturday, October 3. Athletes and coaches from those teams will be invited to attend the annual Breakfast of Champions, Athletic Recognition Ceremony, and Fan Fest and to reconnect with each other at other less formal social gatherings over the course of the weekend.

Thanks to significant success among the College's teams in 1976, 2001, and 2016 and a slight change to the format for calculating reunion years that added a few more championships to the list, 13 teams will be honored this fall.

Four of the teams are from men's soccer, which captured Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference titles in 1975 and 1976 and finished first in the Midwest Conference standings in 2001 and 2016. The 1975 team is also a member of the Lake Forest College Athletic Hall of Fame. The Foresters' 20 conference titles are more than three times the number of any other current league member.

Joining men's soccer from 1976 is the men's tennis team that edged out Lawrence University by one point and Ripon College by two at the MCAC Championship Tournament. It was the first of three consecutive conference titles.

Forester women's volleyball has also produced back-to-back-to-back championships and the 2000 and 2001 teams that finished off that run will be among the honorees this fall.

The winter of 2000-01 included a pair of championship claimed by Lake Forest teams just 13 days apart. Despite having just 14 members, the men's swimming and diving team outscored host Grinnell College by 77 points and the rest of the competition by even more at the MWC Championships. Women's basketball defeated St. Norbert College by three points and Carroll University by 13 here at home to start a three-year title run.

Women's soccer joins men's soccer and women's volleyball with multiple championship teams part of this year's Homecoming festivities. The Foresters were 8-0 in 2001 and that fall's title was their first in a dozen years. The 2015 team went 9-0-1 in the league to earn the second of back-to-back championships.

Women's tennis also went on a title run in the fall of 2015, finishing tied with Grinnell and St. Norbert atop the MWC standings at 9-1. The Foresters came out on top in the head-to-head sets won tiebreaker to claim the program's first championship in 12 years.

Lake Forest softball has claimed 13 of the last 24 MWC titles and the 2016 team will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of their first-place finish. The team was 18-2 in league play, won the MWC Tournament, and hosted the NCAA Regional Tourney.

Click here for a schedule of milestone championship reunions for the next 10 years and here for a complete list of conference titles claimed by the Foresters.