It took precisely 1,202 days to complete a journey that began Jan. 14, 2009. Carthage seniors Mike Bynon, John Condon, Tyler Frings, Randy Hansen and Matt Yanz went from the pits to the ...
The Carthage men's volleyball team has reached the summit. All that remains is to snag the top prize.
If there was any doubt Randy Hansen deserved to be the player of the year, it was erased Friday night.
If there were any questions about Pat Barry and Connor Wexter joining Hansen on the ...
The wait for Carthage's first-ever NCAA national championship continues. The Carthage College men's volleyball team (29-6), ranked second in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association ...
Carthage outside hitter Randy Hansen (Sr., Oak Lawn, Ill., 4.17 kills per set, .361 attack percentage) was named American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III “Player of the ...
4.24.12 | Men's Volleyball
It is a fair distance — if you are driving, a bit fewer than 1,000 miles — from Kenosha to Springfield, Mass., site of this weekend's inaugural NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball Championship.
You want a real trip? Consider how far the Carthage men have come since the seniors on this year's team — libero Mike Bynon, setter John Condon, middle blocker Tyler Frings, outside hitter Randy Hansen and middle blocker Matt Yanz — played in their first match in January, 2009.
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4.11.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (27-5, 7-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked first in the April 10 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll, lost the title match of the Continental Volleyball Conference Tournament on Saturday, April 14, 3-0, to No. 3 the University of California-Santa Cruz (16-6) at Thiel College's Beeghly Gymnasium in Greenville, Pa. The Banana Slugs' winning set scores over the Red Men were 25-18, 25-23 and 29-27.
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4.12.12 | Men's Volleyball
Five Carthage players were named to the Continental Volleyball Conference's All-West Division team. The five were right-side player Pat Barry (So., Skokie, Ill./Wilmette-Loyola Academy), middle blocker Tyler Frings (Sr., Hubertus, Wis./Milwaukee-Pius XI), outside hitter Randy Hansen (Sr., Oak Lawn, Ill.), setter Connor Wexter (So., New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central) and middle blocker Matt Yanz (Sr., Bolingbrook, Ill./Naperville-Central).
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4.7.12 | Men's Volleyball
Carthage College right side player Pat Barry (So., Skokie, Ill./Wilmette-Loyola Academy) was named Continental Volleyball Conference “West Division Player of the Week” on April 5.
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4.5.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (26-4, 7-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked first in the April 3 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll, closed out its regular-season schedule on Wednesday, April 4 with a 3-1 win over CVC-opponent the Milwaukee School of Engineering (18-13, 4-4 CVC) at the Kern Center in Milwaukee. The Red Men's winning set scores over the Raiders were 21-25, 25-14, 25-11 and 25-13.
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3.31.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (25-4, 6-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked second in the March 27 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll,
went 3-0 at the Saturday-Sunday, March 31-April 1 CVC Weekend II Tournament at the Milwaukee School of Engineering's Kern Center in Milwaukee.
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3.28.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (22-4, 2-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked second in the March 27 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll, swept St. Xavier University (7-18), 3-0, on Wednesday, March 28 at the Shannon Center in Chicago. The Red Men's winning set scores over the Cougars were 25-15, 25-21 and 25-18.
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3.24.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (21-4, 2-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked third in the March 13 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll, defeated NCAA Division I Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne (10-12), 3-1, on Saturday, March 24 at Tarble Arena in Kenosha, Wis.
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3.20.12 | Men's Volleyball
Carthage College outside hitter Randy Hansen (Sr., Oak Lawn, Ill.) garnered both national and conference “player of the week” awards on March 20 for the second time this season.
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3.16.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (20-4, 2-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked third in the March 13 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll, won a pair of matches on Sunday, March 18 to conclude a perfect, 5-0 run through the Friday-Sunday, March 16-18 Carthage/Milwaukee School of Engineering Tournament at Tarble Arena in Kenosha, Wis.
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3.16.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (15-4, 2-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked third in the March 6 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll, plays host to the Carthage/Milwaukee School of Engineering Tournament on Friday-Sunday, March 16-18 at Tarble Arena in Kenosha, Wis.
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3.10.12 | Men's Volleyball
The Carthage College men's volleyball team (15-4, 2-1 Continental Volleyball Conference), ranked third in the March 6 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll, went 4-0 to win the Saturday-Sunday, March 10-11 Fontbonne Tournament at Maybee Gymnasium in St. Louis, Mo.
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Carthage Men's Volleyball at the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals View Video
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Did You Know...
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,
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.”
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.
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.
Little All-Americans
The Associated Press has named 17 Carthage football players "Little All-Americans" since 1938, including punter Tyler Funk, a 2010 honoree.
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.
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.
Emily Goetz
Former Carthage graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach Emily Goetz is now the head women's lacrosse coach at Loras College.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carthage Baseball in the NCAAs
The Carthage baseball team made its 18th NCAA regional appearance in 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brotherly Love
Sixteen sets of brothers have played soccer for Carthage men's coach Steve Domin since 1995.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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