Baseball Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: Roster Cross Country: News Football Football: Twitter Football: Schedule Football: Roster Football: News Golf Golf: Twitter Golf . She has also been instrumental in the construction of a new championship-quality track, an artificial turf surface that accommodates lacrosse, field hockey, and intramurals, and the construction of new ballparks for softball and baseball. The Shoremen scored five of the games last seven goals to secure a 14-11 win. Story Archives. As soon as the war was over, the team rebounded to 6-5 in 1945-46. In just three seasons, Ray Diener '65 struck out 264 batters to set a program career record that still stands today. In 1987, the team won its first MAC championship and went 25-3. During the same time period, Gene Maderness struck out 259 batters from 1961 to 1964, the second-highest career total at Elizabethtown. The men's and women's swimming teams made their debut in the 1964-65 season under the direction of John Tulley and Ruth Nearing, respectively. Ira Herr instituted the men's cross country program in 1956. Keith Marks took over as the program's head coach in 1995, and that year Ben Smith '98 became the College's first MAC individual champion in golf. Ted Roscher took over the team from Donald Smith in 1964-65, and he led the team to a 19-3 mark. The team posted a 95-70-2 record during the 1950s, with players such as Nelson Chittum '55, Bruce Wohnsiedler '58, Glenn Crum '59, Gene Wise '59, and Gene Bucher '58 starring for the Blue Jays during that time. Disability Grievance; Non-Discrimination Policy; Title IX; Moravian University is committed to making its website accessible to all users. III Coaches Top 25 (1/3)
The 1987 team won 11 dual meets, tying the program record set in 1965, and the men's team continued to finish in the middle of the MAC pack for the rest of the decade. Bryan Pittinger '01 became the first true closer in Etown history and racked up 19 career saves, a program record, as well as one of the highest totals in NCAA Division III history. Before that time, women's basketball was played with half of the players called forwards, who could only play on the offensive side of the court, and the other half known as guards, who were only allowed to play defense on the other half of the court.
Philadelphia, PA Girard College. However, as in cross country, by the end of the decade, dual matches became less frequent and less important in golf than the end-of-season MAC championships and large tournaments throughout the season. Although the team did not repeat as MAC champion, the Blue Jays did make the NAIA playoffs again, and they advanced all the way to the national championship game, where they battled Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology) to a 2-2 tie to share the national title and finish the season with a 10-1-1 overall record. The women's basketball team played an 11 game schedule in 1970-71. Chris Grubb '93 set an Etown record for most career hits with 164 between 1990 and 1993, and Ian Smeltz '96 recorded 161 hits in his career and set the Etown career stolen base record with 59. HOME 9-2 . Also, the number of opportunities for women to compete in athletics at Etown were expanded with the addition of volleyball and softball as varsity sports. For the fourth year in a row, the women's basketball team had competed in a national championship game. The baseball team earned a pair of NAIA District 30 championships in the span of three years from 1957 to 1959, going 14-6 in 1957 and 14-4 in 1959. 20 in WBCA Div. In only its second season, the women's soccer team posted its first winning record, going 8-6-1 overall. Kim Hampson '94 scored 96 runs, tying the program record, drove in 74 runs, hit a record 16 triples, and stole a program record 52 bases while batting .333 from 1991 to 1994. Throughout the 1980s, Etown volleyball went 231-129. The women's basketball program hit a significant milestone in the 1998-99 season when it became the first collegiate women's basketball program in any NCAA division to record 800 all-time victories. The fall of 1961 witnessed the play of possibly the greatest team ever assembled in college history. The number of dribbles a player could take before having to stop and either pass or shoot was limited as well. Baseball Schedule Roster News Basketball Schedule . By 1977-78, the team played 25 games in a season, a total comparable to what men's basketball teams had been playing for years. As a result, fewer races were contested, and by the end of the decade, the focus of the cross country season had shifted to the very end, at the conference and regional championship meets, with only one or two dual meets being held each year. A private college with a beautiful treelined campus and a motto we live by Educate for ServiceEtown is a place for people who feel the pull to contribute to the world. Anne Sharpe '64 and Susan Kerchner '68 emerged as two of the team's top players during that period, with Sharpe scoring 24.0 points per game in 1962-63. In 1992-93, Mike Ahern completed his career with a 122-20 overall record, the most career victories for an Etown wrestler in the history of the program. The basketball program has won seven Prep B state championships. The men's track & field team won the 2003 MAC indoor championship in just its fourth year of varsity competition the least amount of time any program at Elizabethtown has taken to win a conference title since its inception. February 18, 2023 Women's Basketball. From 1970-71, when Yvonne Kauffman took over as the team's head coach from Cathy Clemens, who led the team for one year in 1969-70, to 1978-79, the women's basketball team compiled a 99-50 record. Volleyball began as a varsity sport in the fall of 1978 under the direction of Jack Snader, who led the team to a 6-9 mark in 1979. Widener University. Elizabethtown's teams improved significantly in the 1930s. February 27, 2023 Men's Basketball. The official 2021-22 Men's Basketball schedule for the King's College Monarchs . List View Headshot View. Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: . vs. Elizabethtown College. Elizabethtown field hockey players earned All-America honors six times throughout the decade. Recent alumnae like Brooke Knepper '01, Lindsay Texter '01, and Sarah Bradley '02 posted some of the top times in Etown history in their events. Baseball Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News JV Baseball JV Baseball: Schedule JV Baseball: Roster JV Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News JV Basketball JV Basketball: Schedule JV Basketball: Roster JV Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country . 15. Hunter Gerber. Karen Barclay '90 batted .372 from 1987 to 1990. The volleyball team entered the 1990s by going 25-17 in the first year. SE Missouri St beats Tennessee St 91-83 n OVC quarterfinals The team also won the Penn-Mar Conference championship that year and set a new program record for wins, going 14-2-1. Men's Basketball History Rowan University Athletics. Widener University. The wrestling team began the decade by completing the 1989-90 season with a 21-5 overall record, the most wins in dual matches in a single season in the history of the program. Field hockey was added in 1952 under Evelyn Heath, and the team had its first winning season in 1955 under the direction of Julia Risser, beginning a streak of ten seasons with winning records. The official Men's Basketball page for the Drew University Rangers That first year was a memorable one, as Greg Millen '88 finished second at the MAC championships and went on to compete at the NCAA Division III championships, where placed 25th in the nation. Basketball. Donald Smith arrived as the head men's basketball coach in 1954-55, and he promptly guided the team to another 14-9 finish. Several women's teams from NJ are in the tournament, including Rowan and Stevens, and other teams, including NYU, feature players who hail from NJ. Both will play tomorrow in the second round. Eventually, a roving position was added as well, including a player who could roam the whole length of the court. In the fall of 1980, the field hockey team advanced all the way to the AIAW Final Four, and the men's soccer team reached the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time in two years and began a run of 17 straight seasons of NCAA playoff competition. The women's basketball team won the Commonwealth Conference championship and returned to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division III tournament in 2001, and it concluded the 2000-01 season with a 20-6 overall record. In 1997-98, the team again went 13-3 in its dual meet season, and at the end of the season it captured its first MAC championship ever. In men's cross country, Etown finished its dual meet season 9-7 in 1990 and 8-6-1 in 1991. 2020-21 Elms Men's Basketball Roster. Baseball Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: Roster Cross Country: News Football Football: Schedule Football: Roster Football: News Golf Golf: Schedule Golf: Roster Golf: News Ice . Bob Schott guided the women's tennis team to a 31-13 record from 1990 to the spring of 1993. Dave Parry '86 became Elizabethtown's only All-American in diving in 1986 for the men's swimming team. at Juniata College Huntingdon, PA W 78-51 . The team remained in the race for a post-season bid until the very last day of the season, and the team, which has quickly established a reputation for its stifling defense, achieved a rare shutout in 2003. 1200 Main Street.Bethlehem, PA 18018 PH: (610) 861-1534 . The men's lacrosse team, under head coach Chuck Maloy, finished 7-7 overall in just its second season of existence in 2003. INDIANAPOLIS The NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2023 championship. Donald Smith retired in 1988 with a 331-275 record as head coach of the men's basketball team in 26 seasons, and he was succeeded by Donald Marsh in the 1988-89 season. Yvonne Kauffman became the head field hockey coach in 1967. He also coached the men's cross country team from 1964-77, leading the 1965 squad to a MAC title. Official recognition of intercollegiate athletics finally came in 1928 with the hiring of Ira R. Herr as the school's first coach and athletic director, although he faced an uphill struggle in the early years to get funding and administrative support.
The official 2022-23 Men's Basketball Roster for the Alvernia University Golden Wolves The Blue Jays went on to win the first NCAA Division III national championship in women's basketball ever contested, and they did it right here in their own gym. Jalen Archer. Every year from 1995-96 to 1998-99, the men's basketball team won either 15 or 16 games. Barb Shenk returned as the head coach in 1997 and led the team to a 18-15 finish that year. Elizabethtown High School Basketball; Basketball Schedule; Elizabethtown Basketball Schedule. Juniata. He led the Blue Jay wrestlers to a 54-14-1 record in dual meets between then and the 1968-69 season. Jim Hepfer '90 became the men's basketball program's second All-American three years later, and he finished his career with 1,867 points. The team won its second MAC championship in 1995, going 13-4 overall. In 2002, Bill Miller '02 finished as the MAC individual runner-up in singles competition, and in 2000, Scott Czerwonka '00 and Tom Height finished as the MAC individual runner-up team in doubles. The 1970s brought great changes to Elizabethtown College athletics. Also, a watershed event for Elizabethtown athletics occurred in 1954 when the College joined the NCAA. In 2003, the Blue Jays had their best season since 1996, posting a 9-4 overall record and missing a post-season appearance by the margin of a single match. Julie Phillips was one of the top women's swimmers of the era, and her best 50 and 100 yard freestyle times remain the top standards in the events at Etown today. 21 Stevens will head to Newport News, Virginia to take on No. Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: . Unfortunately, there was no post-season structure in place for women's sports during that era, so it is impossible to know just how far the 1961 team's considerable talents could have taken it. Ranked No. The Etown men's swimming team finished second at the MAC championships in both 1995-96 and 1996-97. He led the men's soccer team to a 79-15-3 record from 1961-67, and the team rattled off a school-record six straight MAC titles from 1962 to 1967.
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vs. Brooklyn College. The women's soccer team spent the decade developing into one of the nation's best. Collegiate cross country changed more over the course of the 1990s than any other sport Elizabethtown sponsored. Head Coach: Trisha Brown (Harvard, '87), 20th season Assistant Coaches: Kara Kelly (Assumption, '05) and Shelby Buck (UMass Boston, '15) Student Assistant Coach: Joe Spadorcia, '23 Team IMPACT: Lexi Simeos Team Faculty Liaison: Anne Mattina, Professor of Communication and Communication Department Chair In 1998, MAC individual singles champion Wieger Moen went 29-1 overall and was 20-0 in singles competition. Jennifer Lynn '96 became Etown's second All-MAC runner in 1993, and Mindy Enterline '96 became the fourth in 1994. At the start of the decade, the field hockey team was usually playing only 10 or 11 games in a season, but by the end of the 1970s, the average total of games in a season was 16. The Elizabethtown baseball program, which had always been rather successful, hit its stride in the 1980s. Amazingly, Herr was the sole head coach of all of these sports at the time. The Captain men held off Farmingdale State with a late shot from Trey Barber, while the CNU women cruised to an 89-52 win over Brooklyn College. The official 2022-23 Men's Basketball schedule for the Susquehanna University River Hawks. The Official Website of Lancaster Bible College Athletics. Although the value of physical education alongside academic endeavors was emphasized early in the history of the College and participation in it was a requirement for students, actual competition was frowned upon by the College's Church of the Brethren-run administration, which viewed highly competitive, forceful contests as being out of tune with its peace-oriented values. The distance element of the men's track & field program wound up being built very quickly, and in 1999, the men's cross country team won its first MAC title since 1965, and the team qualified as a unit to compete in the NCAA Division III championship for the first time, where it placed 24th in the nation. Feb 18.
The original ten inductees were A. Warren Angstadt '30 for men's basketball and men's tennis; Guy Buch '45 for men's basketball and men's soccer; Joel Chase '67 for men's soccer; Warner Cheeks '61 for men's soccer and men's basketball; Ray Diener '65 for baseball, men's soccer and men's basketball; William Foster '54 for men's basketball and men's soccer, Alvin Hershey '64 for men's soccer and baseball; Linda Eshleman '63 for field hockey and women's tennis; Frank Keath '49 for men's basketball and men's soccer; and Sal Paone '57 for men's basketball. In the final season of the decade, 1988-89, Etown won its second NCAA Division III national women's basketball championship, becoming the first team ever to do so, won its sixth MAC championship, and finished 29-2 for the second time in its history. Choose A Season: Schedule/Results . OVERALL 10-11 0.48 Win % CONFERENCE 5-5 3rdLancaster-Lebanon . The 1951 men's soccer team finished 3-4-1, and it was the last time the men's soccer program had ever completed a season with a record below .500. MAXPREPS; CBSSPORTS.COM; 247SPORTS; B. The Official Site of Elizabethtown College Athletics. 23 in WBCA Div. NCAA Announcement; HOBOKEN, N.J. (February 27, 2023) - For the second time in program history, the Stevens Institute of Technology women's basketball team earned a Pool 'C at-large berth to the NCAA Division III National Championship, the NCAA announced Monday in its selection show. Ranked No. The head coaches through the early, reformative years of the cross country programs were John Schwanger in 1981, Joe Torchia in 1982, and Suzette Desjardin from 1983 to 1985. The softball team went 202-143-1 throughout the 1990s. The 2003 team finished as the conference runner-up. Joseph Todd took over the program in 1952-53, and Greene guided the team in 1953-54. Outstanding baseball players from the era included Will Nicolls '89, who hit .494 in 1987 and posted a .385 career average, Andy Barrick, who hit .504, drove in 62 runs and hit 13 home runs in 1988, Darrell Justh '89, who drove in 109 runs from 1986-89 and owns the program record for most career home runs with 16, and Brad Hassinger '90, who struck out 217 batters and won 21 games on the mound from 1987 to 1990. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Eventually, Thompson Gym will be renovated, and a field house with much-needed indoor practice facilities and storage and office space will be added. Also competing until being dropped from the slate of varsity sports following the 1978 season was the golf team. From 1980 to 1982 under head coach Owen Wright, the Blue Jays went 37-24-5 and reached the NCAA tournament all three years. MACC * vs. Albright College. Although the 21st century is still very young, it has been packed with standout Blue Jay athletic performances. Elizabethtown answered immediately when Jacob Griffin scored after winning the faceoff. Latimore has overseen the expansion of Blue Jay varsity and intramural athletic programs, including the re-introduction of men's and women's track & field and men's and women's lacrosse. The team repeated as MAC and Penn-Mar champion in 1978, going 13-3 and making its first AIAW tournament appearance. Lebanon Valley Women's Basketball Places Three on 2022-23 Academic All-District Team. Pennington basketball continues to add to the longstanding tradition of highly competitive basketball teams that have donned the black and red on the courts. At Elizabethtown, unlike many other institutions, intercollegiate athletics was not simply assumed to be an essential part of the life of a college. III Coaches Top 25 (2/14)
The role of athletic director was assumed upon Ober's retirement by Nancy Latimore, the first woman to hold this position in the College's history. 19. Chris Cook. The following year, the team bounced back to a 24-6 finish with its fourth MAC title and a return to the NCAA Division III tournament after a one-year lapse. See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports Elizabethtown's golf program developed into a consistent winner in the 1990s, compiling a 53-22 record in dual matches. It is one of the great ironies in the history of Elizabethtown College that the inception of a program which has brought such recognition and respect to the institution was resisted so successfully for so long. Linda Eshleman '63 became the field hockey program's first All-American in 1962. In all, the field hockey program went 36-20-8 during its first eight seasons of existence in the 1950s. The 2002-03 team finished 18-9, won the Commonwealth championship and reached the NCAA tournament for the second straight year, both of which were previously unaccomplished feats in the history of the men's basketball program. Print. The 1986 men's cross country squad finished 13th out of 24 teams at the MAC championships, its best performance there since 1974. 1994 team captain John Leaman '95 became Elizabethtown College's first Rhodes Scholar. Twitter Facebook Instagram Composite Search. Although the men's tennis team struggled throughout the 1960s, Robert Garrett took over the program in 1968 and began to build it back into the powerhouse it was in its early days. He finally got some help in 1949, when J.H. The men's basketball program got its first taste of glory as the 1940s wound down, going 13-11 in 1947-48 and 17-7 in 1948-49.
It also won the Eastern AIAW regional tournament championship in 1978. The volleyball program outgrew its infancy in the early 1980s and became one of the top teams in the region for the rest of the decade.
Landmark Conference. All but Sheib went on to become All-Americans in 1980. Kathy Montgomery became the head men's tennis coach in 1997, and in 1998, she led the team to a 15-4 overall mark, the highest win total in the history of the program. The field hockey program had an equally astonishing run of success in the 1980s. Mary Jane Strite averaged 17.1 points per game over the course of her career from 1937 to 1941, an average that remains the fifth-highest in program history today. III Coaches Top 25 (1/17)
Diane Hiestand took over the team for the 1981 season, and Barb Reuter became the head coach in 1982 and set the program on a path to success. A telling example of how geopolitical problems wreaked havoc with Etown athletics is demonstrated by the record of the baseball team during the early 1940s, as the 1941 team set a record for wins by going 10-4 and did not play again until the spring of 1945, when the team went 3-7. View the 22-23 Elizabethtown varsity basketball team schedule.
Gary Pritchard took over as the head baseball coach at Etown in 1997 and led the team through the 1999 season. Matt Jones took over as the team's head coach in 2000 and led the Blue Jays to back-to-back Commonwealth titles and NCAA tournament appearances in 2000 and 2001. Leroy Heckman took over the team in 1966-67 and guided the team to a 14-8 record, and Robert Garrett became the head coach in 1967-68, taking the Blue Jays to a 12-10 record. Cross country was reinstated as a varsity sport that same fall. RedHawks Play at Western Michigan Tuesday Evening. Ranked No. That year, the team went 11-1 and won its first MAC title. The wrestling team posted its first .500 finish in 1962-63, going 6-6 under Lester Baum. Ending a 20-year string of losing seasons in 1972, the men's tennis team went 9-4 and ushered in a new golden era. Women's Basketball Ready to Play for Conference Championship This Week. Women's Basketball Places Three on College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team. Basketball. The women's swimming team built a bit more slowly than the men, but by 1993-94 and 1994-95, it was finishing fourth at the MAC championships. All of those restrictions were removed in 1970, making women's and men's basketball essentially the same game for the first time since the first couple of years immediately following the sport's invention.
The 1995-96 team tore through its dual meet season, going 13-3, while the 1996-97 team went 11-6. The 1996 team finished seventh at the MAC championship, its highest finish since 1972. One of its players, Liz Fretz '05, hit the 100 career goal plateau before the conclusion of her sophomore year in 2003. The 1968 team set a new program record for wins, going 16-6 overall. The official 2022-23 Women's Basketball schedule for Landmark Conference. Box Score; Recap; Game Program; Nerney Field House . Hide/Show Additional Information For Elizabethtown College - November 22, 2022 Nov 30 (Wed) 6 p.m. MACtv. Box Score; Recap; Chester, PA. L . The wrestling team set another program record in 1979-80 as four wrestlers became MAC individual champions. Hide/Show Additional Information For Elizabethtown College - December 3, 2022 Dec 7 (Wed) 7:30 PM . After a brief rebuilding period following the women's basketball team's 1989 national championship, the Blue Jays found themselves back in the MAC playoffs in 1991 and back in the NCAA Division III tournament in 1994. Moravian University. Dave Berdan '04 became Etown's first MAC individual cross country champion in 2001, and Dustin Scott '03 duplicated the feat in 2002. In 2000, the field hockey team, en route to a 15-5 season and its first postseason appearance in nearly a decade, handed head coach Yvonne Kauffman her 1,000th career victory combined among field hockey, women's basketball, and women's tennis. In 1987, the team went 24-17. The wrestling team's top mark in the 1950s was a 4-6 finish in dual matches in 1956-57. Von Nieda led the team to 14-9 and 13-9 finishes in 1950-51 and 1951-52, respectively. Jon Mack. The decade immediately got off to a strong start as the women's basketball team broke the 20-win plateau for the first time in 1979-80, finished 22-6 and reached the AIAW tournament for the second straight year at the same time that the wrestling team won its first MAC team championship and had a program record three wrestlers earn All-America honors at once. During his tenure, he coached 28 MAC champions, 11 All-Americans, and the College's only individual NCAA champion, Eric Mast '77.
Title. Beginning in the 2000-01 academic year, most team sports in the MAC that receive automatic conference qualifier NCAA tournament bids stopped competing for a MAC championship; instead most Etown team sports now compete for a Commonwealth Conference championship and the automatic NCAA tournament bid that goes with it. at. Dave Lebo took over later in 1989 and guided the team through the 1989-90 season.
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