stories, artwork, and photography. SU Radio is an online radio station broadcasting music and student commentary in hour-long programming blocks. Athletics Southwestern is a member of the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC). Southwestern competes in 20 varsity sports, including football, basketball, cross country, track & field, golf, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, lacrosse, men's baseball, women's volleyball and women's softball. Intramural sports on campus include handball, rock climbing, and ultimate frisbee. The school mascot is the pirate. The men's lacrosse team became a varsity sport in 2009 after offering lacrosse as a club sport for 25 years. The men's lacrosse team won the Lonestar Alliance Division II Championship for four consecutive years prior to becoming a varsity sport. The women's team is currently non-varsity and is affiliated with the Texas Women's Lacrosse League, although the university plans to field a varsity team in 2014. The women's team won a division championships in 2007. In addition to lacrosse, Southwestern has a nationally ranked handball team that won the Division II National Collegiate Championship in 2007. In September 2016, Southwestern's volleyball team moved up to 3rd place in the AVCA coaches poll as well. Southwestern reinstated football in 2013 after a 62-year hiatus. The institution previously fielded football teams from 1908 to 1951, reaching national prominence during World War II when the institution's participation in the Navy's V-12 College Training Program enlisted talented players from other schools. Southwestern was a founding member of the Southwest Conference and won the Sun Bowl in 1944 and 1945. Southwestern University Women’s Soccer team won its first-ever SCAC Championship in 2019, defeating Trinity University on penalty kicks. Notable people Notable alumni Harry Ables – Major League Baseball pitcher Jessie Daniel Ames – Civil rights activist Mike Anderson- Major League Baseball Pitcher and current Pro Scout with the Texas Rangers William H. Atwell – U.S. District Court judge Solon Barnett – Offensive tackle and guard for the Chicago Cardinals and Green Bay Packers (1945–1946) Hiram Abiff Boaz – Methodist Bishop and former president of SMU Joan Bray – State senator in Missouri Pete Cawthon – Head football coach and athletic director of the Texas Tech Red Raiders Serena DeBeer – Adjunct Professor at Cornell University and Head of Dpt. for Inorganic Spectroscopy at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion J. Frank Dobie – Author Bill Engvall – Stand-up comedian Abbie Graham – Author