PICTURED: Wheaton's Adam Dansdill

NAPERVILLE, Ill. – Wheaton’s 17-3 win over Carthage on Saturday secured a second-straight College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) football title and 18th in school history.
 
The conference title was Wheaton’s eighth under head coach Mike Swider, which also includes wins in 2000, 2002-04, 2006, 2012 and 2014. Before Swider’s tenure, the program won CCIW titles in 1949, 1950, 1953-59 and 1995.
 
Last week’s 40-27 win at Illinois Wesleyan clinched the Thunder their second-straight NCAA Division III Football Championship berth as Wheaton will represent the CCIW as its automatic qualifier. This will be the Thunder’s eighth NCAA appearance under Swider dating back to 2002. Wheaton’s farthest advancement was the national semifinal round in 2008.
 
The NCAA announce the pairings for the 2015 NCAA Division III Football Championship on Sunday, November 15 at 5 p.m. CST via an NCAA.com selection show.
 
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services eight member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2014-15 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,500 academic all-conference recipients, 19 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 46 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients and 102 all-Americans.