The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team won the 2013 NCAA Division III Stagg Bowl championship as part of the Warhawk athletic department's 2013-14 academic year, which included national titles in football, men's basketball, gymnastics and baseball. UW-Whitewater finished second in the Learfield Directors' Cup standings, the school's highest-ever finish. It became the first school at any level of college athletics to claim football, men's basketball and baseball national championships in the same academic year. The gymnastics team finished a three-peat of NCGA national titles that same year.

Other national placers during the 2013-14 academic year included wrestling (runner-up), women's basketball (3rd), bowling (3rd), softball (3rd), women's outdoor track and field (3rd), women's indoor track and field (5th), men's indoor track and field (6th), men's outdoor track and field (13th), women's swimming and diving (T-24th), women's soccer (NCAA second round), women's tennis (NCAA second round), men's tennis (NCAA first round) and volleyball (NCAA first round).

Former head football coach Lance Leipold (2007-14), who coached the Warhawks to six national championships during his eight years at the helm of the program, spoke about the accomplishment and the entire 2013-14 year for the UW-Whitewater athletic department. Video interview footage courtesy of the University at Buffalo Athletics.