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2000s œ Steve Wiser ’74 joins the football and wrestling teams. After graduation, he joined the coaching staff and is still on the sidelines today as the team’s defensive coordinator and assistant head coach. ∑ Women’s sports are added to the College’s offerings for the first time, with women’s tennis becoming the first varsity sport in 1971 and field hockey being added in 1972. Frank Girardi becomes head football coach and serves in that capacity for the next 36 years, winning 257 games, 18th- most ever by a college football coach, and wins 13 MAC titles and advances to 11 NCAA Tournaments. † Tom Vanaskie ’75 graduates from the football program with a school-record 11 interceptions, becoming the College’s first Academic All-American in the process. Rich Henninger ’74 becomes the only Lycoming basketball player to reach 2,000 career points, posting 2,184 in his career. He was a three-time First Team All-MAC selection and the MAC Player of the Year in 1974. ¨ Deb Holmes begins a 34-year tenure as the women’s tennis coach and a physical education instructor. She also is the first women’s basketball coach from 1978-85. ˆ The wrestling team wins its first of three straight MAC Championships. π Deborah McCarthy ’83 plays a season with the men’s soccer team, appearing in several games as a reserve and helping the team to a 6-6 record before joining the field hockey team for the next three years. å Lamade Gym opens, complete with a brand-new gymnasium with seating for 2,000 and a pool with spectator seating for 400. © The first female athlete at the College to compete at a national level, Denise Zimmerman wins a school-record nine MAC swimming titles, a school-record five All-American honors, and 35 years after she left the pool, she still holds a school record in the 200-yard freestyle. ˙ Led by First Team All-MAC North selection Ed Langer ’86, the men’s basketball team enjoys a 19-7 campaign and earns the program’s first NCAA Tournament bid in program history. Diver Meg Altenderfer becomes Lycoming’s first female Academic All-American. ˚ The first class of the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame is inducted. ¬ The women’s basketball team posts a record 21-8, earning the College’s first bid to the NCAA Tournament in the sport. Ω The football team repeats as MAC Champions and enters the NCAA Tournament for a third time, earning a surprise run to the NCAA Division III Championship, the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. ç Christen Ditzler is hired as assistant women’s basketball coach and head softball coach, before becoming head women’s basketball coach in 1993. In the ensuing 27 years, she has won more games as a coach at Lycoming than any other person, posting 339 wins as basketball coach, 235 wins as softball coach from 1993-08, and 13 as the volleyball coach in 2000. √ Roger Crebs takes the helm of the wrestling program after the passing of Budd Whitehill. In the ensuing 26 years, Crebs has won a Lycoming record 419 dual meets. ∫ Central back Pat Doody ’95 becomes Lycoming’s first men’s soccer All-American and the Freedom League Player of the Year. Kurt Schneck ’94, Lycoming’s only four- time MAC Champion, wins a national title at 126 pounds. ˜ The men’s soccer team wins a second straight Freedom League regular-season title under head coach Rob Eaton. The softball team, led by pitcher Mary Beth Schwindenhammer, wins the MAC Championship. The Budd Whitehill National Duals, a 16- to 20-team wrestling tournament made up of some of the best Division III teams in the country, is hosted at Lycoming for the first time. ≤ The Lycoming football team makes its second appearance in the NCAA Division III Championship game, finishing the year with a 12-1 record. The women’s swim team wins the College’s first MAC swimming title. The women’s tennis team wins its first of three Freedom League titles in the span of four years under Deb Holmes. ≥ The football stadium is rebuilt at a cost of nearly $2 million. The new Robert L. Shangraw ’58 Athletic Complex has seating for 2,000 and amenities include a modern press box, seven new locker rooms, and support facilities. ÷ The men’s lacrosse team makes its first of three appearances in the MAC finals. Cricket Temple becomes Lycoming’s first tennis player to win a MAC Individual Championship. Scott Kennell becomes Lycoming’s head soccer coach and leads the men’s soccer team to a school-record 110 wins in the next 11 seasons and helps the women to a record 30 wins as head coach from 2002-05. Jerry Hammaker takes the reins of the swim team and over the course of the next 18 years, he becomes the first Warrior swim coach to win 100 dual meets with the men and women. Royce Eyer sets a school-record for career wins (127) that stands for 16 years and he wins the wrestling team’s eighth national championship, doing so at 149 pounds. The men’s basketball team wins the Freedom Conference title, the first in program history. The volleyball team wins its first conference title in the Freedom Conference finals. Led by coach Jamie Spencer, the golf team finishes second at the Freedom Conference Championships, led by the strong play of Jim Bechtel ’06 and Jordan Isenberg ’08, who finishes tied for second at the tournament. Megan Wallenhorst ’08 becomes Lycoming’s first women’s lacrosse All- American while helping the team to the MAC championship game for the first time in program history. Coach Mike Clark ’93 helps the football team win its first MAC title since 2003, leading the team to a 7-4 overall record. ’ 80 S ’ 70 S ’ 90 S ’ 00 S teams before enlisting in the war effort in 1942. It was just the beginning of the effect that World War II had on the now junior college. When the war ended, the junior college began its transition to Lycoming College. Soon after, the College’s athletic director, T. Sherman Stanford, told a newspaper reporter with the Williamsport Sun-Gazette that the school was looking to pick a nickname for its teams. Many of the suggestions played off the Native American heritage of the word Lycoming and in 1948, the athletic program officially adopted the Warriors moniker. Two years later, under the guidance of President Long, the College joined the NCAA and in 1952, it joined the MAC. Bob Smith, an economics and history professor, helped guide the transition, as his basketball teams became the most successful on campus during his years from 1946-56. In that decade, he helped the team to a 119-81 record and coached the 1900s continued 14 LYCOMING COLLEGE 2020 SPRING MAGAZINE