In 2000, the NKU women's basketball team became NKU's first national championship team by winning the NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship and ending its season with a 32-2 record. Nancy Winstel has been head coach since 1983.
Young and Growing
Northern Kentucky University is the youngest of Kentucky's eight state universities. Founded in 1968 as Northern Kentucky State College, it awarded its first bachelor's degrees in May 1973, and became Northern Kentucky University in 1976.
Originally formed as a University of Kentucky extension campus, in 1976, it became Northern Kentucky University. The Salmon P. Chase College of Law, formerly an independent law school in Cincinnati, merged with Northern Kentucky State College in 1971. The newest college at NKU is the College of Informatics, founded in 2006.