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Jason Mifsud ’13
Drew Tompkins ’13
Court to be named after Burch
For 32 years, Clarence “Dutch” Burch
worked the Lycoming College basketball
court sidelines, beginning his career in the
tiny Hilltop Gymnasium. When he was
promoted to athletic director in 1976, he
helped make Lamade Gymnasium, the
3,700-seat home of the Warrior basketball
program, a reality, and he coached in the
banner-laden gym for 14 years.
Now, the court on which he helped
create so many memories as a basketball
coach will be named in his memory.
During the season-opening Tip-Off
Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 16, the
Warriors will name the Lamade Gym floor
“Dutch Burch Court” in a ceremony at
3:15 p.m. with the team tipping off right
after the ceremony.
Burch, who passed away in 2012 at
age 80, amassed a school-record 318 wins
during his time on the sidelines from
1962-94. Burch led Lycoming to its first
Middle Atlantic Conference regular-season
championship in 1965-66 and added
two more titles in 1983-84 and 1984-85.
Lycoming made 11 appearances in the
postseason during his tenure.
Two Warriors earn
scholar-athlete award
Lycoming’s Jason Mifsud ’13
and Drew Tompkins ’13 have
earned the Middle Atlantic Con-
ference’s Scholar-Athlete Award
for men’s tennis and men’s golf,
respectively. Mifsud also was
voted the Commonwealth Con-
ference’s Player of the Year.
After winning a school-record
15 singles matches and rewriting
the school’s record book, Mifsud
joins Robert Brown ’11 as the
only men’s tennis players to earn
the award.
On the court, Mifsud, the
Warriors’ all-time wins leader,
finished his career with a 45-11
singles record and added a 28-26
mark in doubles. His combined
mark of 73-37 is also the best
in school history. He saved his
best season for last, posting a
15-1 singles record as a senior
and becoming the first player in
school history to win the Middle
Atlantic Conference Individual
Championship, doing so at the
top flight.
Mifsud is also one of two
players in school history to
earn three all-conference accolades. He
reached three MAC Individual Champi-
onship finals. He also led the Warriors
to the 2010 Commonwealth Conference
Championship, the program’s first-ever
conference title.
Off the court, the mathematics
major was just as impressive, earning
two MAC Academic Honor Roll nods,
three Intercollegiate Tennis Association
Scholar Athlete awards and seven dean’s
list awards. He was vice president of the
Kappa Mu Epsi-
lon Mathematical
Science Honor
Society and was
awarded with the
Mathematical
Science Award,
the Frances K.
Skeath Award
in Mathematics
and the Benjamin
C. Connor Prize
in Mathematics
at the college’s
Honor’s
Convocation.
Tompkins was a four-year
letterwinner for the Warriors, playing
in 15 career rounds and participating
as one of the team’s top five players
at the Commonwealth Conference
Championship during all four seasons. As
a freshman, he finished a personal-best
28th at the conference championship, as he
fired a career-best 86 in the second round.
As a senior, he finished in the top 25 once,
posting an 88 at the Susquehanna Spring
Invitational.
In the classroom, the political science
and economics major was a two-time
MAC Academic Honor Roll selection and
earned eight dean’s list accolades. He was
inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi National
Honor Society, the Omicron Delta Epsilon
Economics Honor Society and the Pi
Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor
Society.
A Lycoming Scholar, he also was the
recipient of the 2013 Roger W. Opdahl
Economics Excellence Award and won the
Lycoming College Class of 1907 Prize,
which is given to a senior in the upper half
of his class who has contributed to campus
life through participation in athletics and
other student activities.
The new athletic marks were designed
by the Joe Bosack Graphic Design
Co., which has also created logos for
several collegiate (Akron, Bucknell,
Manhattanville and Mississippi State) and
professional (NHL’s Colorado Avalanche
and AHL’s Hershey Bears) teams.
The new set of marks will replace the
“Block L” logo, which has been in use
since 2005. Prior to that, the College used
an “Indian Head” mark for nearly 50
years, but chose to change the logo due to
NCAA legislation that banned the use of
American Indian mascots by sports teams
during its postseason tournaments.
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www.lycoming.eduThe court in Lamade Gym will be named after “Dutch” Burch, who won a
school-record 318 games as Lycoming’s men’s basketball coach.