Become a YellowJacket

8/1/2023 12:00:00 AM

Interested in becoming a LeTourneau YellowJacket? Learn more about the University, its athletics department, and more below!

Note: These forms are only for interest in intercollegiate athletic programs. To apply to attend LeTourneau University, click here

Men's & Women's Track and Field

Volleyball

The most important endeavor of LeTourneau University athletics is that our student-athletes grow in their relationship with Christ as a result of their student athlete experience.

At LeTourneau, we seek to promote, direct and support each student-athlete to reach their full potential in the areas of faith, academics, and athletics.

Faith

Faith integration in every course, every team, and every residence hall
90.2% of student athletes report being satisfied, or highly satisfied with the level of faith integration in their particular sport
Weekly campus chapel
Bi-weekly team specific small groups
Four Student Athlete Worship Nights per year
Regular service opportunities with Special Olympics and other local organizations
Team specific mission trips

Academics

Where work and learning are transformed by faith
The average student athlete GPA is 3.49 (Spring 2026)
Every team had a cumulative GPA over 3.0 in the last seven semesters (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
206 selections to SCAC Academic Honor Roll in 2025-26
One NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete Award winner in 2025-26 (Hannah Newell, Women's Golf)
One CSC Academic All-American in 2025-26 (Maddie Flanery, Softball)
46 CSC Academic All-District selections in 2025-26
Required athletic study hall
Tutors offered for various courses

Athletics

Relentlessly pursuing athletic success for the glory of Christ
Men's Golf won SCAC championship and made fourth straight NCAA Championships appearance, finishing 12th overall
Women's Golf won program's first SCAC title and made first team appearance at the NCAA Championships
Volleyball set program-record for wins (19) in NCAA era (since 1998)
Baseball won most games since 2014 (26)
Men's Golf won a program-record five tournaments
One SCAC Player of the Year (Kinley Pessel, Women's Golf)
Two SCAC First-Year Player of the Year Awards (Kinsey Fulks, Women's Soccer; Rafa Torres, Men's Golf)
Two SCAC Coach of the Year Awards (Paul Leslie, Men's Golf and Women's Golf)
One NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete Award winner (Hannah Newell, Women's Golf)
One Academic All-American (Maddie Flanery, Softball)
Coming soon: Athletic & Human Performance Air Dome (opening Summer 2026)

LeTourneau University is a comprehensive institution of Christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture Christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work, and to serve the local and global community.

GOALS

LeTourneau University educates students who:

Demonstrate competency and ingenuity in their professional fields
Integrate Christian faith and work: understanding their vocation within the triune God's grand story of redemption revealed in Scripture
Engage the local and global community

LeTourneau University is an educational community that:

Fosters an engaging environment conducive to teaching and learning
Cultivates Christian virtue
Contributes to the enrichment and service of the local and global community

LEARN MORE ABOUT LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY

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