Facilities Warrior Athletics Rend Lake College Athletic Department

Facilities The James “Hummer” Waugh Gymnasium is host to home games for basketball and volleyball. The baseball and softball teams compete on their own fields, located on the south end of campus near the RLC Rec. Student athletes can stay in game shape with the Rec Fitness Center or the Aquatics Center, which features a six-lane, 75-foot pool, therapy 468 N Ken Gray Pkwy pool and whirlpool. Also located in the Rec are Ina, IL 62846 batting cages and practice facilities for baseball 618-437-5321 and softball, as well as weight training equipment, [email protected] locker room facilities, and a full functioning www.rlc.edu Athletic Training room. Rend Lake College provides educational opportunities across cultural and economic boundaries to the diverse student population we serve. We are committed to our students’ success in achieving their educational goals and to meeting our community-focused program objectives. With Rend Lake College, student journeys start here. Rend Lake College Warrior Athletic Department Athletics 468 N Ken Gray Pkwy • Ina, IL 62846 Phone – (618) 437-5321, Ext. 1250 Toll-Free (In-District) – 1-800-369-5321 Join the conversation. Fax – (618) 437-5677 Email – [email protected] www.rlc.edu/athletics Warrior Warrior Teams Athletics Men Women Baseball Basketball Rend Lake College offers both male and female Basketball Golf student-athletes a comprehensive athletic program Golf Softball which competes as a member of Region XXIV of the Tennis National Junior College Athletic Association. RLC Volleyball fields teams in eight sports, and each program provides athletic scholarships for its student- athletes in accordance with NJCAA guidelines. Warrior / Lady Warrior student-athletes are well prepared to move on after two years to the next level, athletically and academically. Academic results provided by four-year schools reveal RLC transfers fare even better than “native” students. Great Rivers Athletic Team Highlights Conference In 2013, the RLC mens’ basketball team won The athletic program at RLC competes as a member the Division II National Championship, the first of the Great Rivers Athletic Conference, which is basketball championship in college history. one of the premier junior college conferences in the nation. The college and its athletic program The men’s golf team was runner-up in the 1995 and have gained a great deal of statewide, regional and 2005 NJCAA D-II National Championships. In 2009, national exposure due to the athletic and academic golfer David Griffin became RLC’s first national success of its teams and their members. golf champion (D-II) by winning the NJCAA Men’s Championship at Scottsboro, Ala. Other members of the GRAC are Kaskaskia College (Centralia), Lake Land College (Mattoon), Lincoln The women’s golf team has won several Region Trail College (Robinson), John A. Logan College XXIV crowns and has often advanced to the NJCAA (Carterville), Olney Central College, Shawnee Division I National Championships. After the 2017 Community College (Ullin), Southeastern Illinois season, they have 14 top places at the NJCAA College (Harrisburg), Southwestern Illinois College Championship Tournament and 12 Region XXIV and Wabash Valley College (Mt. Carmel). Championships. The softball team is a two-time GRAC championship David Griffin, NJCAA D-II Men’s Golf Champion team (1994 and 2000) and advanced to the NJCAA “Time management is also a huge piece of the puzzle Division I National Fast-Pitch Championships in 1996. for a student athlete. The golf schedule at Rend Lake The Women’s Tennis team has advanced to the College taught us the ins and outs of what we were NJCAA Championships regularly in recent years. going to see at a four-year institution. I don’t know if I would have made it going to a four-year school first without golfing and everything at RLC.” Division II National Champs, 2013 - Brandon Bullard, Class of 1999.

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