The purpose of this study was to determine if POMS and salivary cortisol tests could detect when nonfunctional overreaching was occurring in Hanover College endurance and team athletes. In this study, seven female collegiate soccer players, six female collegiate basketball players, and three male and three female collegiate swimmers completed four rounds of POMS and salivary cortisol tests throughout their season. The subjective measurement that tested the mood disturbance of the athletes was the profile of mood states assessment and the objective measurement was the salivary cortisol tests. These two items were completed once in preseason (baseline), once during season, once during conference, and finally once in post-season. The salivary cortisol was gathered in the morning shortly after waking followed by the POMS test later that night in a common place. It was hypothesized that at baseline, the mean score for fatigue, tension, and vigor were expected to be below the threshold for NFOR; at baseline, the mean cortisol measurement was expected to be below .35 μg/dL; during times of increased perceived stress, mean fatigue and tension would increase while vigor scores would decrease; cortisol levels would be higher in athletes with higher fatigue and tension scores and lower vigor scores; at times of higher perceived stress, a higher percentage of athletes were expected to reach the POMS threshold for NFOR than at baseline. Data concluded that To summarize, the main findings of this study were: (1) division three endurance athletes have similar POMS patterns but different cortisol levels than division one endurance athletes. (2) Division three team sport athletes had low correlation between POMS scores and cortisol levels; therefore, these assessments may be unable to accurately detect when NFOR is occurring. (3) There needs to be more research done on division three athletics to see if the athletic and academic load leads to similar patterns as athletic only stress at the division one level.