Bill Foster '54 finished his career with 1,148 points, and Bill Pensyl '60 totaled 1,372 points in his career. Thompson Gymnasium was dedicated in 1970. The women's soccer team has had a player named an Academic All-American for each of the last three consecutive years, the most recent being defender Megan Halladay '04 in back-to-back seasons in 2002 and 2003. Ranked No. 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. 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. 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. There was also a tremendous shift in the nature of women's basketball in the early 1970s. Lancaster, Pa. Elizabethtown College. 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. The 1934-35 women's basketball team posted a 9-3 record, and the 1935-36 team went 11-0-1, setting a record for winning percentage (.958) that stood as the program's high-water mark until 1982. There were some bright spots during this period for men's basketball, however, most notably that of Guy Buch '45, who led the country in points per game in 1945 with 23.7. 15 in WBCA Div. In a rather bizarre move, the school also dropped men's cross country from its slate of varsity sports following the fall 1977 season, thereby short-circuiting Etown's chances of overall competitiveness on the oval. Robert Garrett took over as the head coach in 1981 and led the team to its first winning season in 1982, as the Blue Jays went 16-7. Some outstanding players came through the Etown program during those years, including Steve Swope '87, who broke the program record for most points in a career that had stood since 1949, and he concluded his career with 1,926 points. Full Story. The women's basketball team was so successful in the 1930s that Elizabethtown quickly became an anomaly for the times, with the women typically outdrawing the men in attendance. Collegiate cross country changed more over the course of the 1990s than any other sport Elizabethtown sponsored. Teams. Elizabethtown's golf program developed into a consistent winner in the 1990s, compiling a 53-22 record in dual matches. The field hockey team saw its share of strong seasons throughout the 1990s as well, going 15-5 in 1994, 14-4 in 1995, and 14-5 in 1996. Over the course of the decade, the women's tennis program ran up a 72-47 record. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. Box Score; Recap; Gallery; Clarks . In the fall of 1998, Jen Olmstead '99 became the fourth Etown women's cross country runner to earn a spot on the All-MAC team, and Maggie Martin '03 followed in 1999. III Coaches Top 25 (1/17) Bridgewater St. (18-8) 25. 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. 20 in WBCA Div. The official 2022-23 Men's Basketball schedule for the Messiah University Falcons . at. Ricardo Bailey also earned All-American honors in 1975, and Etown wrestlers earned individual MAC Championships 15 times between 1970 and 1979. As the 1980s progressed, the softball team evolved from a new program to a regional power. In the opening years of the decade, the Blue Jays rattled off three consecutive undefeated seasons in dual matches under head coach Royal Snavely, as the team went 9-0 in 1990 and 1991, and 7-0 in 1992. The women's soccer team spent the decade developing into one of the nation's best. He led the Blue Jay wrestlers to a 54-14-1 record in dual meets between then and the 1968-69 season. That season, the first year that NCAA championships were contested in women's basketball, Etown made the first-ever NCAA Division III tournament field, and the Blue Jays advanced to the Final Four. 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. The next intercollegiate varsity sport to be added was baseball in the spring of 1930. They were Jude Bervinchak at 134 pounds, Duane Maurer at 142 pounds, Kurt Anderson at 150 pounds, and Gary Sheib at 158 pounds. The team's 24 wins in 1989 still stands as the program record. The men's soccer program began its rise to national dominance under Dodd, who led the program from 1949 to 1952, and the team continued to build under D. Paul Greene, who coached the team from 1953 to 1957. 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. The 1980s proved to be very good to the men's tennis program as well, going 65-59 from 1980 to 1989 and posting a 10-3 record in 1981. III Coaches Top 25 (2/21) The official website of the wilkes university colonels. The 1995-96 team tore through its dual meet season, going 13-3, while the 1996-97 team went 11-6. Risser also took over the women's basketball team from Jane Ulmer, who took over from Herr in 1954, and guided the team to an 8-2 finish in 1956-57. The old Ira R. Herr baseball field will be converted to practice fields in the near future. 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. The 54 base hits by shortstop Emily Morris '04 in 2002 set a new Etown single-season record as well. The official 2022-2023 Women's Basketball schedule for the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays. The men's basketball program experienced a heyday in the early sixties, going 68-19 from 1961 to 1965. Also, after a pair of home night losses, some began to believe that the lights simply were, to borrow a word frequently used by generations of Etown soccer players, "unlucky.". The team went 9-3 in 1972-73 as well. INDIANAPOLIS The NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2023 championship. Donecker became a three-time All-American in 1982 when she capped her career by winning the first NCAA Division III national singles championship. C'Wealth * at. In women's cross country, Melissa St. Clair '05 became Etown's first All-American in the sport just a few weeks ago, and the team placed eighth at the Mideast Regional in 2003 for its highest regional finish ever. The wrestling team posted its first .500 finish in 1962-63, going 6-6 under Lester Baum. Another feature that has defined the past few years at Etown has been change. Ira Herr instituted the men's cross country program in 1956. His assistant, Bill Helm, took over as the head coach in 1984 and led the team to a 26-15 finish that season. Pam Drazkowski took over as the head coach in 1989. B. Men's Basketball Earns Spot in Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship, Will Host Alvernia. Basketball. The team played half of its games against present-day NCAA Division II teams, and the Blue Jays out-scored their opponents 41-0 over the course of the season. The men's tennis team posted 6-2 and 7-1 seasons in 1952 and 1953, respectively, and Donald Smith took over the head coaching duties from Herr in 1955. Manheim Township 72. 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. The 1952 team began the now 52 season long streak of .500 or better seasons with a 6-2 finish. Under her leadership, in NCAA circles the name of Elizabethtown College has become synonymous with success. Print. The Middle Atlantic Conference, once a sprawling entity of over 25 schools, saw massive changes occur to its structure in 1993 after several schools left the organization, leaving it with its current slate of 16 institutions divided between two groups. Charlie Haines '04 and Chris Bowen-Ashwin '03 placed fourth and ninth in the conference, respectively, to earn first team All-MAC honors, and Bobby Stiffler '05 placed 17th to earn a spot on the All-MAC second team in 2003. His 93 strikeouts, accomplished in just 56-2/3 innings in 1962, remains tied as the single-season Etown record. 2/18/23 | Women's Basketball. The official 2022-23 Men's Basketball schedule for the King's College Monarchs. The team went 128-101 from 1990-91 to 1998-99. In 1995-96 and 1996-97, the team moved up to second in the MAC championship standings. 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. The track & field team saw its final season in the spring of 1981, but not before enough women were competing in the sport to score as a separate squad from the men in a pair of dual meets that year. The team went 27-16 in 1995 and 24-11 in 1996. Both became All-Americans that season as well. The men's tennis team went 10-3 in 1991 and 12-2 in 1992. In Owen Wright's final season as the head coach in 1983, the team made its first trip to the NCAA Division III tournament and produced a 22-16 record, the most wins in a season ever for the team at the time. 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. Feb 18. MAXPREPS; CBSSPORTS.COM; 247SPORTS; B. Under head coach Stacy Rucci in 2001, the team came one overtime goal shy of a conference championship, finishing as the runner-up with an 11-9 mark. Box Score; Recap . Washington College 14 Elizabethtown 11. In 1965, the men's cross country team went 11-1, won its first-ever MAC title, and finished 26th in the nation out of 56 teams at the NCAA College Division national championship meet in Chicago, IL. L, 75-69. The women's basketball team finished as the NCAA Division III national runner-up in both 1982-83 and 1983-84, going 23-5 in 1982-83 and finishing 29-2 and winning a third MAC Championship in 1983-84. The official 2021-22 Men's Basketball schedule for the King's College Monarchs. After several years as a club team, varsity women's soccer was launched in the fall of 1988 as well under the auspices of head coach Jim Jones. forward Marquis Ratcliff from the Moravian University basketball teams have been selected to the Lehigh Valley Small College Basketball Team of the Year by the LVSCB Organization at its final luncheon . Joseph Todd took over the program in 1952-53, and Greene guided the team in 1953-54. 54. III Coaches Top 25 (1/3) Women's sports gained the opportunity to compete for conference championships for the first time, and owing to the NCAA's glaring lack of recognition of women's athletics that persisted through the decade, an organization called the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was formed in 1971 and began to conduct regional and national championships. Liz Bishard '98 set program records for most kills in a career with 1,295 and most digs in a career with 1,440. 1975 also witnessed the birth of a new Elizabethtown College institution: the Ira. Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: . Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: . Hunter Gerber. The 1968 team set a new program record for wins, going 16-6 overall. Women's tennis switched from playing in the spring to playing in the fall in 1993, and Kathy Montgomery took over as the head coach in the fall of 1993. Story Archives. Story Links. The 1990s began with Elizabethtown College possessing one of the most consistently successful athletic programs in NCAA Division III, a feature that has continued to distinguish the College today. 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. 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. The South Florida Bulls (21-4, 10-0 AAC) are trying to build on an 11-game win streak when they visit the SMU Mustangs (14-6, 5-3 AAC) on Saturday, February 4, 2023 at Moody Coliseum. Top competitors for Etown in the 1970s included sprinter Jim Yeingst '80, mid-distance runners Tim Moyer and Wade Pratt '80, distance runner Bob Berlin, hurdler Don Tyrie '80, jumpers Gary Fowler and Rob Wardius '76, throwers John Luzik '77 and Scott Sweitzer, and pole vaulter Tim Seager '81. In the spring of 1981, she and Jen Haifley teamed up to win the AIAW national doubles championship, and the two both earned All-America honors. Lobb also scored 96 runs and drove in 76 runs, both program career records. Box Score; Recap; Game Program; Nerney Field House . Since 2000, the men's tennis team has posted a 37-21 overall record. Mike Dager, who was the assistant coach for both the women's and men's cross country programs from 1998 to 2001, became the head women's cross country coach in 2002. 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. 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. As soon as the war was over, the team rebounded to 6-5 in 1945-46. 0 John Tulley guided the team for a season in Wright's stead in 1969 and led it to a 13-7 mark. Dave Lebo took over later in 1989 and guided the team through the 1989-90 season. Etown made it to the NCAA tournament every year from 1997 to 1999, and the team won its second MAC championship in 1998. See the Elizabethtown Bears's basketball schedule, roster, rankings, standings and more on MaxPreps.com. In 1987, the team went 24-17. Bob Schott took over as head coach of the women's tennis program in 1984 and immediately led the team to a 10-2 record that spring. Eight members of the 1961 team were named All-State honorees. However, Etown was also able to be a member of the NAIA at the same time during the period. This time around, both men and women competed in the sport, although there were not enough women to field a full team to score in meets until 1983. Opens in new window. The baseball team continued its run of success as the 1991 team went 26-9-1 and reached the NCAA tournament for the third time in its history. MAXPREPS; CBSSPORTS.COM; 247SPORTS; B. Ted Roscher took over the team from Donald Smith in 1964-65, and he led the team to a 19-3 mark. 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. From 1990-91 to 1998-99, the women's basketball team compiled a 173-78 record. Warren L. Hayman and Rusty Owens succeeded him as head coaches for successive two-year stints, and Mike Guinivan took over as head swimming coach in 1988-89. Main Navigation Menu. From there, he advanced to the 1935 National Intercollegiate Tennis Tournaments, held at Northwestern University, and he made it to the third round. Men's soccer was added in the fall of 1938, allegedly as a way for Herr to get his basketball players in shape for the winter season. 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. Men's Basketball Assistant Coach. Skip To Main Content. Etown baseball reached new heights in the 1970s, going 124-70-1 during the decade and winning three consecutive MAC championships from 1974 to 1976. In just three seasons, Ray Diener '65 struck out 264 batters to set a program career record that still stands today. 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. From 1950-51 to 1958-59, the men's basketball program registered a 115-85 record. In the late 1940s, Etown athletics resumed its upward mobility. Men's Basketball History Nazareth College Athletics . B. It's not the opposition they're worried about.". The decade also saw the passing of a very significant torch. Hide/Show Additional Information For Elizabethtown College - November 19, 2022 Nov 21 (Mon) 7:00 PM . Hide/Show Additional Information For York College of Pennsylvania - November 30, 2022 Dec 3 (Sat) 3:00 PM . She also compiled the second-highest career total in kills at Etown with 1,188. Pennington basketball continues to add to the longstanding tradition of highly competitive basketball teams that have donned the black and red on the courts. Originally, Etown teams were referred to alternately as both the Gray Ghosts and the Phantoms. 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 team repeated as MAC and Penn-Mar champion in 1978, going 13-3 and making its first AIAW tournament appearance. The Official Site of Elizabethtown College Athletics. February 27, 2023 Men's Basketball. List View Headshot View. The wrestling team saw two of its members, Art Mattes '01 and Bill Van Winkle '01, reach the 100 career-win plateau together in the same season in 2000-01, the first time that ever happened in the history of the program. 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The women's swimming team repeated as MAC champion in 1998-99, and it went 15-2 in its dual meet season, its best record ever. Although the track & field teams would not compete at the varsity level until January 2000, Chris Straub was hired as the new men's and women's track & field and men's and women's cross country coach in the summer of 1998 to begin building the programs. Lutz set the program record for most career points with 1,757, and Meyer set the record for most points in a year with 683. John Tulley took over as the head coach in 1970, and Etown had its first winning season in dual matches in 1974 when it went 7-4, and the team posted an 8-4 mark in 1975. The 1970s brought great changes to Elizabethtown College athletics. Barry Dohner '83 took over as the head coach of the women's soccer program in 1994, and by 1996 he had led the team to its first MAC championship and an 18-2-2 record. In just four short years of varsity competition, the men's and women's track & field programs have developed into two of the most successful programs at Etown today. 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 College of New Jersey leads the standings with 80 points, followed by Ithaca (78.5), RIT (70), Elizabethtown (59) and Centenary (57.5) in the top five. The men's soccer program made its comeback in the fall of 1947 and immediately went 3-3, and the baseball team went 8-6 in 1948 to post its first winning record of the post-war period. Jodi Kuehn batted .341 from 1994 to 1996, and Monica Lehman batted .349 over 1992 and 1993. 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. In 1987, Swope became the program's first All-American. In 1991-92, the men's swimming team finished 8-6, its best record since 1972-73, and it placed seventh at the MAC championships, its best finish since 1976-77. 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. The host site for the inaugural NCAA Division III women's basketball Final Four and national championship game was selected, and it turned out to be none other than Elizabethtown College's own Thompson Gymnasium. Men's Basketball | Feb 08. The men's lacrosse team, under head coach Chuck Maloy, finished 7-7 overall in just its second season of existence in 2003. In the past couple of seasons, three players: Bob Porambo '02, Brian Loftus '03 and Jon English '03, all became 1,000 career point-scorers. The 2003 team took things a step further, finishing as the Commonwealth Conference runner-up rather than just a semifinalist. In 2001-02, the Blue Jays shattered almost every team season record in existence en route to capturing the Commonwealth title, advancing all the way to the NCAA Division III national championship game, and concluding the season 29-3 overall as the national runner-up. Bryan Zeamer finished the season with a 40-7 record, while Justin Barbush completed the season with a 41-3 mark. On 12/8, the Elizabethtown varsity basketball team lost their home non-conference game against Manheim Township (Lancaster, PA) by a score of 72-53. Early in its history, the women's basketball program faced the challenge of not having many other collegiate women's basketball teams nearby to play, the result being that the lists of results from those early years include such esoteric opponent designations as "Eighth Ward, Lancaster; "Fifth Street Methodist Church;" "Etown Jasperettes;"and "St. John's Parish,"among others, as well as after several years the College's own alumnae, in addition to more typical collegiate opponents. 2020-21 Elms Men's Basketball Roster. The official 2021-22 Men's Basketball schedule for the King's College Monarchs . Men's College Basketball News. While one could imagine that a mascot costume for a team with such a name would be far less bulky and easier on its wearer than most, Herr apparently never liked those monikers, and he eventually established the Blue Jay as the official mascot due to its possession of the school colors and its reputation as fighting, scrappy bird. Jim Sarbaugh posted a career batting average of .402 between 1955 and 1958, setting a program record that remains intact to this day. (); : Sr. Elizabethtown, Pa. Elizabethtown. Live Scoreboard . To this day, she is the only Elizabethtown College athlete to accomplish the feat. From 1996 to 1999, breaststroke and individual medley specialist Jackie Zimmerman '99 distinguished herself by being named an All-American all four years of her collegiate career. From the 1949-50 season to the 1958-59 campaign, the women's basketball program posted a 61-49-2 record. The 423 career service aces racked up by Darcy Hall '89 from 1985 to 1988 remain one of the highest totals in NCAA Division III history. 27. Over the course of the years from 1980-81 to 1988-89, the Elizabethtown women's basketball team played in five national championship games, won two national titles, took part in seven NCAA tournaments and one AIAW tournament, won five conference championships, went 225-33 overall, and posted a 40-11 record in the postseason. In 1986, Dale Luy took the reins of both the men's and women's cross country programs, and before long had both teams consistently competing at higher level than any point since the early 1970s. The Official Site of Elizabethtown College Athletics. The 1997 team finished 22-11 and reached the NCAA tournament for the fourth time of the decade and the sixth time in the history of the program. The Official Website of Lancaster Bible College Athletics. Hide/Show Additional Information For Elizabethtown College - November 23, 2021 Dec 1 (Wed) 6 p.m. MACC * at. Decades later, this sorry saga would prove the inspiration for shirts lauding the grand accomplishments of "Elizabethtown football: undefeated since 1929.". Ranked No. Etown men's soccer players were named All-Americans eight times in the decade, with Jay Varrato and Robbie Martin both becoming two-time All-Americans in 1990. Western Michigan Game Notes. The Blue Jays finished the season with a 26-1 overall record, setting a new program record for best winning percentage in a season at .962. His 11 wins in 1995 remains a program record, as does his 11 complete games that season. . 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. In the spring of 1980, the women's tennis team set a program record for wins by going 13-1, Beckie Donecker became Etown's first All-American in tennis, and javelin thrower Mike Bomberger became the first All-American from Elizabethtown in track & field. The spring of 1961 was also the first season of existence for the women's tennis program, which got off to a 5-2 start in its first season under Julia Risser. The women's basketball team won its first MAC championship, which was incidentally the first contested by the conference in the sport, in 1976. The 2003 team finished as the conference runner-up. Eric Walker became the program's head coach in the summer of 2003. Another major change in cross country that was specific to Elizabethtown College occurred in 1998, when the decision was made to bring back track & field as a varsity sport at the College. The team went 27-3, captured its second MAC title, and finished as the AIAW national runner-up in 1980-81. In those days, the emphasis in cross country was on winning dual meets, and the Blue Jay harriers posted their first winning mark with a 6-2 record in 1958 and improved to 7-3 in 1959. Frank Keath '49 became the first 1,000 career point-scorer in College history, leading the nation in scoring at one point and finishing his career with 1,873 career points, a record that would remain intact until 1987. During his tenure, he coached 28 MAC champions, 11 All-Americans, and the College's only individual NCAA champion, Eric Mast '77. 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 official 2021-22 Women's Basketball schedule for the Lebanon Valley College Dutchmen. In women's tennis, Kauffman took over as the head coach in 1970 and guided the team to a 72-11 record from 1970 to 1979. . Disability Grievance; Non-Discrimination Policy; Title IX; Moravian University is committed to making its website accessible to all users. The team also made the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time that year. The team won its second MAC championship in 1995, going 13-4 overall. 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.
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