Thiel College sponsors nine intercollegiate men's athletic programs that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III as members of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC).

During the the 2006-2007 academic year Thiel had 55 male student-athletes earn all-PAC accolades and had 31 named to the PAC Academic Honor Roll (attaining at least a 3.6 GPA during their season of competition).

Thiel was represented well in NCAA Championship competition during the 2006-2007 year. Senior wrestler Kyle Brown and sophomore sprinter Dorran Coley each garnered all-America honors in their respective sports.

Brown wrestled to an eighth-place finish at the 2007 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships, hosted by Loras College at the Five Flags Center in Dubuque, Iowa. He finished the season 41-10 and concluded his career with a record of 128-34. A three-time National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Scholar all-American, he was also a four-time PAC champion at 285 pounds.

Coley was the national runner-up in the 110-meter high hurdles at the 2007 NCAA Divsion III National Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh at J.J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium. His second-place time of 14.83 was behind only the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Jonathan Garcia (14.58). Coley ran a fifth-place time of 14.32 at the 2006 NCAA Division III National Championships. His second-place finish at the national championships this season is the highest individual finish by a Tomcat track athlete ever.