SERIOUS ABOUT SPORTS. 1 Y 262 ALL-AMERICANS. H 170 CHAMPIONSHIPS. F 140+ YEARS OF HEART-PO UNDING, FIST-PUMPING GLORY.
At Wabash, athletics are in our blood. We won the first baseball, basketball, and football games ever played in Indiana. We’re home to one half of the greatest small college football rivalry in the nation. And over the years, we’ve earned more trophies and titles than any liberal arts college has a right to. If you come to Wabash, you come to play.
SERIOUSLY. SOUND MIND. SOUND BODY. SERIOUS SPIRIT. The serious-about-sports culture at As for our fans, they’re, well, fanatic. Wabash goes way beyond Division III. You really haven’t lived until you’ve Roughly 40 percent of students compete in painted your face, shaved your head, intercollegiate athletics and a full 80 percent and joined the sea of screaming humanity compete in one or more intramural or at the Monon Bell Game. Google it. club sports (everything from flag football And see for yourself. to rugby to ultimate disc). Wabash’s defense was stout in 2011 and helped the Little Giants to an undefeated regular season (including a 45-7 thrashing of DePauw), a conference championship, and a 12-1 record.
Wabash played and won the first intercollegiate football game ever contested in Indiana and years later nicknamed Purdue’s team the “Boilermakers” (not kindly). Other monikers included the blacksmiths, farmers, hayseeds, cornfield sailors, pumpkin shuckers, and railsplitters.
Wabash won its 600th all-time dual meet in 2012 — the same year Greg Rhoads became the first Wabash wrestler to earn All-America honors in back-to- back seasons. Rhoads won 148 matches in his Wabash career.
In 2011, Wabash dedicated a Wabash posted 38 victories in new stadium (Wabash Ballpark); the 2011 and 2012 seasons, captured the North Coast Athletic boasted an All-American, and Conference Championship; and knocked off the number one- played in the D-III Tournament. and two-ranked teams in the country. That success only adds to Wabash’s history: we played Led by NCAA D-III Player of the and won the first basketball Year Pete Metzelaars, the 1982 game in the state of Indiana. Wabash basketball team won the National Championship. As for Pete, he would go on to a record- setting 16-year career as a tight Wabash football fans take their job end in the NFL — playing in four seriously. The Little Giants regularly Super Bowls. rank among the nation’s leaders in home game attendance, and in 2010 Wabash dedicated a renovated Little Giant Stadium.
From football to baseball to wrestling, WABASH Wabash men leave it all on the field (or the floor, or the court). Here are just ALWAYS a few highlights from recent years. FIGH Under three-time NCAC Coach of the Year Jason Hutchison, the Little Giant tennis team scored 18 team victories in 2011 and 17 in 2012 at the newly renovated Collett Tennis Center.
Wabash has an incredible tradition of success in cross Kevin McCarthy pacing the Little Giants by winning the country and track and field. Over the last two years, Wabash steeplechase. In a two-week period in March 2012, Kevin was won five North Coast Athletic Conference championships named the Great Lakes Regional Track Athlete of the Year in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track. The 2012 and conference MVP, won an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, outdoor track team set yet another record for most points ever and captured the National Championship in the indoor mile. scored in the NCAC meet with senior five-time All-American
HTS. In 1904, an Indianapolis News sportswriter dubbed Wabash athletes the “Little Giants” after that year’s teams dominated against much bigger schools.
J. Owen Huntsman was a pioneer in track and cross country. As a coach, he invented the Hokum Karem-style cross country race and his distance runners were routinely named All-Americans. Few people believed what they saw on a cold day in November 2011. Wabash trailed North Central by 21 points entering the fourth quarter of a second-round playoff game. But true to form, the Little Giants kept fighting. Wabash staged a furious rally punctuated by a gutsy two-point conversion to come away with a 29-28 victory (in what some say was the greatest game ever played in Crawfordsville).
“Victory is Sweat” is the wrestling team’s motto. And after 600 all- time dual meet victories, there’s been some serious sweating.
Wabash swimmers are as fast in the pool as they are sharp in the classroom. (They’re honored annually as an All-Academic Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America.) Football has always been big at Wabash (even before the start of intercollegiate play).
In 2012, Wabash claimed four First The Wabash cross country team Team All-NCAC players (the most is an All-Academic Team with All- ever). Senior John Holm earned his America distance-running talent. second straight NCAC Player of We had All-American runners in the Year award. 2011 and 2012.
WE USUALLY Lacrosse may still be a club program at Wabash, but that doesn’t keep our team from playing a full season of games against schools large and small from all over the Midwest.
Every year roughly 10,000 fans turn out for the greatest small college football rivalry in the country (the Monon Bell Game).
Wabash’s Ingalls Field was home to the 1956 Olympic trials in the Decathlon.
Two-time All-NCAC Golfer Sam Russell scored a hole-in-one at the DePauw Small College Classic.
When the weather gets cold outside, the action heats up in Chadwick Court, home of Wabash basketball and the rowdiest, loudest fans in the country. Known as the Chadwick Crazies, our fans prompted one visiting coach to say, Wabash won the first intercollegiate “There is no louder venue in our conference.” baseball game ever played in Indiana (when we beat Asbury, now DePauw, in 1866). These days, the Little Giants practice and play in a new $2 million ballpark and travel to Texas, Arizona, and California for spring training.
In 2012, Jake Waterman won the National Championship in the outdoor 800, and teammate Kevin McCarthy was the National Champ in the indoor mile.
Y WIN. sports.wabash.edu WE’RE NUMBER FOUR.
FOR FACILITIES. IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
That’s according to The Princeton Review. And we’re talking number four overall, including the D-I powerhouses. After a $26 million building spree, it’s hardly surprising. Wabash’s Little Giant Stadium has been completely revamped with a brand-new playing surface. We’ve also built new baseball, soccer, and recreational facilities – and renovated the tennis center. If you’re serious about working out, you’ll find everything you need in our 7,000-square-foot fitness center (including Cybex, Hammer Strength equipment, and trainers who will make you wish you went somewhere else).
The “old” facilities aren’t exactly old. Wabash’s Knowling Fieldhouse boasts a 200-meter indoor track and four full-sized basketball courts. Our baseball and golf teams have elevated cages for off-season practice, and swimmers and divers practice in an eight-lane, 40-meter pool with movable bulkhead.
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About athletics, academics, life? If so, we want to hear from you. You can call 1-800-345-5385 or email [email protected]. Want to meet our coaches and see the facilities for yourself? Even better. You’ll find plenty of information online about scheduling a campus visit.
NCAA DIVISION III ATHLETICS INTRAMURALS RECREATION AND WELLNESS Baseball Basketball ALLEN ATHLETICS CENTER Basketball Bean Bag Toss 8-lane, 40-meter pool Cross Country Bowling 7,000 square foot fitness center Football Canoeing Aerobics room Golf Chess Racquetball courts Indoor Track and Field Cross Country Servies wrestling room Outdoor Track and Field Darts Wellness assessment center Soccer Flag Football Student health center Swimming and Diving Golf Wabash athletics training room Tennis Horseshoes KNOWLING FIELDHOUSE Wrestling Pocket Billiards Six-lane, 200-meter indoor track Racquetball Four recreational basketball courts CLUB TEAMS Soccer Elevated baseball batting cages Lacrosse Softball Elevated golf practice cages Swimming Rugby COLLETT TENNIS CENTER Volleyball Table Tennis Tennis Six outdoor tennis courts Track and Field Three indoor tennis courts Ultimate Disc MUD HOLLOW STADIUM Volleyball Soccer stadium Wallyball Intramural fields Winter Carnival Rugby field Wrestling Lacrosse field BYRON P. HOLLETT LITTLE GIANT STADIUM Sewell Field 8-lane, 400-meter Huntsman track WABASH BALLPARK
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