The Aurora University Spartan athletic teams that competed in the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) captured the 2012-2013 All-Sports Award in both men's and women's sports. The award is the fifth time in seven years for the Spartan men's sports and the second for the Spartan women.
 
Throughout the 2012-2013 season, AU won eight NAC Championships in women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, men's basketball, men's and women's indoor track and field, softball, and women's outdoor track and field. The Spartans also brought home third-place finishes in baseball, men's tennis and men's outdoor track and field. 
 
NAC schools are awarded points for each sport's finish in the regular-season conference standings and in conference tournament finishes. AU out-distanced Milwaukee School of Engineering with a point-index of 11.50 to 10.94 in the men's sports and beat Concordia University Wisconsin in the women's sports with a point index of 11.58 to 11.22
 
With the on-field success came post season honors from the NAC for numerous AU coaches and players. Five Spartan student-athletes were named NAC Player of the Year in their respective sports, while five student-athletes were named NAC Freshman of the Year in four sports and four AU head coaches were named NAC Coach of the Year spanning eight sports.
 
Spartans named NAC Player of the Year were junior Janee Lange (Defensive Player of the Year – women's soccer), senior Tristan Wilcox (Position Player of the Year – softball), freshman Elise Hinson (Indoor Field Athlete of the Meet – women's outdoor track and field), sophomore Kaylee Swearingen (Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Meet – women's outdoor track and field), and freshman Liz Canaday (Outdoor Track Athlete of the Meet - women's outdoor track and field).
 
Spartans who received NAC Freshman of the Year honors were Hinson (women's indoor and outdoor), Nick Williams (men's indoor track and field), Fabian Cabrera (men's cross country) and Michael Beasley-Hart (football). 
 
Head coaches named NAC Coach of the Year were Ryan Chapman, who won five (men's and women's cross country, men's and women's indoor track and field and women's outdoor track and field), Troy Edwards (women's soccer), James Lancaster (men's basketball) and Mike McKenzie (softball).
 
The Northern Athletics Conference completed its seventh season of competition in the spring of 2013. The NAC consists of 13 colleges and universities from the shared-border states of Illinois and Wisconsin. Member schools include: Alverno College, Aurora University, Benedictine University, Concordia University Chicago, Concordia University Wisconsin, Dominican University, Edgewood College, Lakeland College, Maranatha Baptist Bible College, Marian College, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Rockford College and Wisconsin Lutheran College.  The Northern Athletics Conference sponsors 18 sports. Men's teams include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field. Women's squads are fielded in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, and volleyball.