The Carthage College men's golf team (124-19) finished second at the 2012 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Men's Golf Championship. The first two rounds were played on ...
Carthage College's Donnie Langland (Jr., Algonquin, Ill./Jacobs) was named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin “Men's Golfer of the Week” on April 25 for the second time ...
The Carthage College men's golf team (118-18) won its own spring invitational on Tuesday, April 24 at the Kenosha Country Club in Somers, Wis. The Red Men won the seven-team event with a 303 team ...
The Carthage College men's golf team (112-18) won the Sunday, April 22 Carroll University (Wis.) Invitational at the at the Broadlands Golf Club in North Prairie, Wis.
The Carthage College men's golf team (106-18) won the Saturday-Sunday, April 14-15 Ripon College Invitational at the Lawsonia Golf Course in Green Lake, Wis.
4.9.12 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (93-18) won the Monday, April 9 Elmhurst College "Bluejay Classic" at the Oak Brook Golf Club in Oak Brook, Ill.
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4.6.12 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (86-18) finished third at the Friday-Saturday, April 6-7 Illinois Wesleyan University Invitational at the Ironwood Golf Course in Normal, Ill. The Red Men entered the second day in a 10th-place tie, 10 strokes back of the leaders, but Carthage shot a blistering second-day round of 288 to finish one stroke out.
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3.28.12 | Men's Golf
Carthage College's Donnie Langland (Jr., Algonquin, Ill./Jacobs) was named the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin “Men's Golfer of the Week” on March 28. Langland took medalist honors at the March 26 Aurora Invitational at the Aurora Country Club with a one-over-par 73, helping lead the Red Men to a victory in the nine-team field.
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3.26.12 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (66-16) opened the spring portion of its 2011-12 season by winning the Monday, March 26 Aurora University Invitational at the Aurora Country Club in Aurora, Ill. The Red Men won the nine-team event with a 311 team score, nine strokes ahead of second-place Wheaton College (Ill.) at 320.
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10.9.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (60-16) finished 16th at the Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 9-11 Golfweek Division III Fall Invitational at Raven Golf Club in Miramar Beach, Fla.
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10.3.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (58-1) won the Sunday-Monday, Oct. 2-3 Milwaukee School of Engineering Fall Invitational at the Grand Geneva Golf Course in Lake Geneva, Wis.
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9.29.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (50-1) won the Thursday, Sept. 29 Concordia University (Wis.) “Elite Eight Invitational” at the North Shore Country Club in Mequon, Wis.
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9.26.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (46-1) won the Sunday-Monday, Sept. 25-26 Wisconsin Lutheran College Fall Invitational at the Washington County Golf Course in Hartford, Wis.
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9.18.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (35-1) won the Sunday, Sept. 18 Benedictine University (Ill.) Fall Invitational at the St. Andrews Golf and Country Club in West Chicago, Ill.
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9.14.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (18-1) won the Tuesday, Sept. 13 University of St. Francis (Ill.) "Fall Classic" at the Wedgewood Golf Course in Joliet , Ill. Carthage won the 19-team event with a 289 team score, two strokes ahead of second-place St. Francis (Ill.) at 291.
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9.12.11 | Men's Golf
The Carthage College men's golf team (7-1) opened the fall portion of its 2011-12 by finishing second at the Monday, Sept. 12 Carthage Fall Invitational at The Club at Strawberry Creek in Kenosha, Wis.
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5.11.11 | Men's Golf
Carthage College men's golfer Donnie Langland (So., Algonquin, Ill./Jacobs. team-leading 74.0 season average) was named Golf Coaches Association of America/PING NCAA Division III All-Central Region on May 11.
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April 21 Carthage Men's Golf Spring Invitational View Video
Did You Know...
Coach Tim Rucks Hits 100
Carthage football coach Tim Rucks won his 100th career game with a 40-23 decision at Millikin University on Oct. 8, 2011.
Carthage's 24th Varsity Sports Began in 2009-10
Carthage launched its 24th varsity sport in 2009-10, as the women's lacrosse team began varsity play.
George Demos
George Demos, who lettered on the 2002 and 2003 Carthage soccer teams, is the director of special events for Reggie Jackson's Mr. October Foundation for Kids.
Carthage Baseball in the NCAAs
The Carthage baseball team made its 18th NCAA regional appearance in 2011.
Brotherly Love
Sixteen sets of brothers have played soccer for Carthage men's coach Steve Domin since 1995.
Leanne Ulmer's 300th win
Carthage women's volleyball coach Leanne Ulmer won her 300th career match with a 3-0 decision over Southwestern (Texas) on Sept. 16, 2011.
Carthage's "Mr. Touchdown"
The last living member of Carthage's first football team, the 1895 squad, was William Simmons, "02. Simmons was honored at a 1958 Carthage game for scoring the Red Men's first-ever home touchdown in an 18-0 win over Quincy University on Nov. 28, 1895 in Carthage, Ill. Simmons scored on a 75-yard fumble recovery.
Ryan Baumgartner
Former Carthage men's volleyball player Ryan Baumgartner, who lettered on the 2005-07 Red Men teams and was named American Volleyball Coaches Association second-team All-America in both 2006 and 2007, was named head women's volleyball coach at Dominican University (Ill.) prior to the 2011 season,
Brady Lindsley Wins No. 250
Carthage men's tennis coach Brady Lindsley won his 250th match on April 23, 2011 with a 9-0 win at Principia College.
First NFL Playoff Game
John “Popeye” Wager, ‘31, was a lineman for the 1932 NFL Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, who played the Chicago Bears in the first-ever NFL post-season game. The Spartans finished the regular season in a first-place tie with the Bears, whose owner, George Halas, had a playoff game scheduled and moved from Wrigley Field to an indoor contest at the Chicago Stadium.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith, a member of Carthage’s inaugural men’s soccer team in 1981, was inducted into the Wisconsin Soccer Association Hall of Fame in 2010. A native of Racine, Wis., Smith set a Carthage game record that season by collecting four assists against Milton College on Oct. 21. Smith is currently the outdoors editor of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Coach Leanne Ulmer
Head women's volleyball coach Leanne Ulmer enters the 2011 season with a .782 winning percentage over 10 seasons, which was raned ninth among active NCAA Division III coaches thru 2009. Ulmer has won six CCIW titles in nine years at Carthage, including a shared title in 2004 and outright titles in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Doubling Up
With a school-record 12 doubles in the May 5, 2011 Lakeland game, the Carthage baseball team tied an NCAA III game record first set by Bridgewater State University versus the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on March 29, 1997.
Carthage's First Hole-in-One
Carthage men's golfer Don Huff scored the Red Men's first-ever hole-in-one on Oct. 10, 1981 against Lawrence University at Rainbow Springs in Mukwonago, Wis. Huff aced the third hole with a seven-iron.
Rob Lytle
Former University of Michigan football tailback Rob Lytle, who died on Nov. 20, 2010, played for the Denver Broncos Super Bowl XII team that lost to the Dallas Cowboys in 1978. Denver’s head coach that year was Robert “Red” Miller, who assisted Carthage head coach Art Keller from 1955 to 1957.
Augie Schmidt IV Reaches 700 Wins
With a victory over Ohio Wesleyan University on March 6, 2010, Carthage College baseball coach Augie Schmidt IV will became only the 17th coach in NCAA Division III history to reach the 700-victory plateau.
Emily Goetz
Former Carthage graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach Emily Goetz is now the head women's lacrosse coach at Loras College.
Bosko Djurickovic
Carthage men's basketball coach Bosko Djurickovic’s CCIW winning percentage entering the 2011-12 season (.669, 245-121) is the sixth-best in the 65-year history of the league, and his 245 wins placed him first among active conference coaches.
Coach Brady Lindsley
Carthage women's tennis coach Brady Lindsley won his 200th career match in the fall of 2009. Lindsley, with a 219-93 record heading into the fall 2011 portion of the season, has been named CCIW "Women's Tennis Coach of the Year" three times.
Carthage Turns on the Lights
Carthage added lights to its baseball facility in April 2010. Assistant coach Cory Everts flipped the switch in the bottom of the eighth inning of an April 24 game versus Augustana College (Ill.), marking the first-ever use of the bulbs in a game situation.
Brooke Mix Scores Her Second Career Hole-in-0ne
Carthage College women's golfer Brooke Mix (Sr., Westfield, Ind.) scored a hole-in-one on Sept. 23, 2011 on the first day of the Wisconsin-Whitewater "Fall Fling." Mix' ace came on the 130-yard 15th hole at the Riverside Golf Course in Janesville, Wis. It was the second collegiate hole-in-one for Mix, with the other coming on Sept. 4, 2009 on the 11th hole of the Foss Park Golf Course at the Robert Morris “Fall Classic.”
Amanda Croix Named Army Assistant Coach
Former Carthage swimmer Amanda Croix was named an assistant swimming and diving coach at United State Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., in July 2011.
L.J. Marx Reaches 100 Wins
Carthage men's volleyball coach L.J. Marx won his 100th career match on April 9, 2010 with a 3-0 win over Fontbonne University in the semfinals of the M-III Volleyball Conference Tournamrnt in Kenosha, Wis.
Red Men's 1,000th Basketball Win
With an 85-60 win over Concordia University (Wis.) on Nov. 28, 2009, Carthage won its 1,000th men's basketball game. The program began in 1907.
Kent Dernbach
Former Carthage basketball player Kent Dernbach (2002-03) was named an assistant men's basketball coach at Wisconsin-Stevens Point in October 2011. Dernbach had been the Northern Illinois University Director of Men’s Basketball Operations. He held the same post at George Mason University from 2007 to 2009.
Little All-Americans
The Associated Press has named 17 Carthage football players "Little All-Americans" since 1938, including punter Tyler Funk, a 2010 honoree.
Greg Dirkse
Greg Dirkse, who lettered on the 1995-97 Carthage soccer teams, was elected to the school board in his hometown of Oostburg, Wis., in April 2012.
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