2010 Auggie Awards -- Male Outstanding Team of the Year Finalists

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BASKETBALL (19-8 overall, 13-7 MIAC--t2nd/11, MIAC playoff qualifier) --
In its fifth season under head coach Aaron Griess, Augsburg finished 19-8 overall, its best overall record since the 1998-99 season, while finishing 13-7 in MIAC play, earning a trip to the MIAC postseason playoffs for the second consecutive season. In the league playoffs, the Auggies opened with an 86-75 quarterfinal win over St. John’s before falling 59-57 in the semifinals at Gustavus. Head coach Aaron Griess was chosen as the 2009-10 MIAC Coach of the Year. During his five seasons at Augsburg, Griess has seen the Auggies improve their overall and conference win total each year.
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CROSS COUNTRY (4th/11 at MIAC meet, 7th/26 at NCAA Division III Central Regional) --
Under head coach Dennis Barker, Augsburg recorded its best-ever team finish at the MIAC championships (since re-starting the program in 1991), placing fourth with three individuals earning All-MIAC or All-MIAC honorable-mention honors. The top five Auggies all finished among the top 33 runners at the league meet. The Auggies also had their best-ever finish at the NCAA Division III Central Regional, placing seventh with its five scoring runners all placing in the top 50. Brent Haglund qualified for the NCAA Division III national championships for the second straight year, and three Auggies earned All-Region honors -- Haglund, Ben Rodriguez and Shane Wyborny.
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HOCKEY (16-10-1 overall, 8-7-1 MIAC--4th/9, MIAC playoff qualifier) --
Augsburg qualified for its third MIAC playoff tournament in the last four seasons under head coach Chris Brown, and its second straight playoff appearance. Augsburg's 16 wins this season were its most since the 2002-03 campaign (17-9-0). Augsburg sprinted to a 9-3-1 start to the season, including a seven-game winning streak, and closed the season with four wins in its last six games to clinch a playoff berth. In the league playoffs, the Auggies had one of the most dramatic two-game stretches in school history, winning a 3-2 opening-round game against St. Olaf in a game that went to two overtimes and 89:40, then playing the next night in the longest game in NCAA Division III history (and second-longest in NCAA all-divisions men’s hockey history), a 6-5, four-overtime loss at Gustavus that went 138:38 of game action and 5 hours, 30 minutes of real time. Goalie Justin Lochner set an NCAA all-divisions record with 98 saves in the loss to the Gusties.
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WRESTLING (12-0-0 in dual meets, NCAA Division III National Champions, NWCA Division III National Duals champions, 1st at NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional) --
With eight All-Americans and three national runner-up individuals, Augsburg claimed its 11th NCAA Division III national title in the last 20 seasons, and first title for second-year head coach Mark Matzek. Matzek, named Division III National Coach of the Year by the National Wrestling Coaches Association, is the youngest head coach to ever win a Division III wrestling national title at age 27, in his second year as the Auggies' mentor. Augsburg assistant head coach Jared Evans was named National Assistant Coach of the Year by the NWCA. The championship marked a unique first for the Auggies – the first time Augsburg has won a national title without an individual national titlist. The feat has occurred just twice before in the 37-year history of the Division III tournament. Augsburg had eight All-Americans – two more than any other school in the field – and its seven top-four finishers were also two more than any other school in the field. Augsburg extended its streak of “trophy finishes” – finishing in the top four in the team race – to 22 straight years, the longest active streak of any NCAA wrestling program, regardless of division. As a team, Augsburg finished unbeaten in dual meets with a perfect 12-0 record, its first unbeaten dual-meet record since 2001-02. The Auggies won the Division III Great Lakes Regional for the eighth straight year, and captured the NWCA Division III National Duals title for the fifth time in the last nine years. Augsburg claimed two dual-meet wins over traditional rival Wartburg (Iowa), while also claiming a dual win over eventual Division II national champion Nebraska-Omaha.