Three Carthage College women's tennis players were named to the 2011-12 All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin team.
The Carthage College women's tennis team (7-3, 5-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) finished second at the Friday-Saturday, Oct. 7-8 CCIW Women's Tennis Championship at Carthage's ...
The Carthage College women's tennis team (7-3, 5-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) defeated non-conference opponent Carroll University (Wis., 7-2), 6-3, on Saturday, Oct. 1 in a ...
Carthage College tennis coach Brady Lindsley made his 31st and 32nd career trips to Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., in the fall of 2011, first for the Sept. ...
The Carthage College women's tennis team (6-3, 5-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) edged CCIW-opponent North Central College (7-4, 3-3 CCIW), 5-4, on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at the North ...
9.24.11 | Women's Tennis
Carthage's women's tennis doubles team of Hollis McPeek and Kristina Naidicz fell in the semifinals at the Sept. 23-25 Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Midwest Regional Championship at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.
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9.21.11 | General
Two former Carthage athletes will be marking the 25th anniversary of their senior seasons in unusual fashion during Carthage's 2011 Homecoming. Tracy Pellet '87, and Heidi (Henschel) Pellett, '87, will be watching their daughter play collegiate tennis at Carthage's Smeds Tennis Center.
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9.21.11 | Women's Tennis
Carthage College's Kristina Naidicz (Jr., Kenosha, Wis./Tremper) was named College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin “Women's Tennis Player of the Week” on Sept. 21.
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9.20.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (5-3, 3-1 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) lost to CCIW-opponent Wheaton College (Ill, 7-1, 5-0 CCIW), 8-1, on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at the Wheaton Tennis Courts in Wheaton, Ill.
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9.19.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (5-2, 4-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) edged CCIW-opponent Illinois Wesleyan University (2-3, 2-2 CCIW), 5-4, on Sunday, Sept. 18 at the Beadles-Morse Courts in Bloomington, Ill.
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9.17.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (4-2, 3-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) swept CCIW-opponent Millikin University (0-6, 0-5 CCIW), 9-0, on Saturday, Sept. 17 at Fairview Park in Decatur, Ill.
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9.16.11 | Women's Tennis
Due to a threat of rain in downstate-Illinois on Sunday, Carthage's weekend women's tennis schedule has been adjusted. Instead of playing Millikin University on Sunday morning, Sept. 18, the Lady Reds will take on the Big Blue on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 3 p.m., still at Fairview Park in Decatur, Ill.
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9.11.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (3-2, 2-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) split a Sunday, Sept. 11 double-dual match at the Smeds Tennis Center in Kenosha, Wis. Carthage swept CCIW-opponent Elmhurst College (0-4, 0-3 CCIW), 9-0, before falling to Wisconsin-Whitewater (2-0) by an 8-1 margin.
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9.9.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (2-1, 1-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) opened CCIW-play on Friday, Sept. 9 with a 7-2 win over Augustana College (Ill., 2-2, 1-2 CCIW) at the Smeds Tennis Center in Kenosha, Wis.
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9.4.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (1-1, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) traveled to Whitewater, Wis., on Saturday, Sept. 3 to play in the Wisconsin-Whitewater Invitational. The nine-team event got underway at the Wangerin Tennis Courts before rain forced a move to the Janesville Athletic Club in Janesville, Wis. With limited court time at the indoor facility, the tournament was eventually cancelled.
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9.2.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (1-1, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) opened its 2011-12 season on Thursday, Sept. 1 by splitting a home double-dual match with Lawrence University and Wisconsin Lutheran College at the Smeds Tennis Center in Kenosha, Wis. Carthage was edged by Lawrence (1-0), 5-4, in the afternoon before defeating Wisconsin Lutheran (0-2), 8-1, on Thursday night.
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8.28.11 | Women's Tennis
The Carthage College women's tennis team (0-0, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin), coached by Brady Lindsley (219-93 women's record, 14 years), opens its 2011-12 season on Thursday, Sept. 1 by playing host to Lawrence University and Wisconsin Lutheran College in a double-dual match at the Smeds Tennis Center in Kenosha, Wis. Carthage takes on Lawrence at 1 p.m. and Wisconsin Lutheran at 6 p.m.
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Did You Know...
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.
Little All-Americans
The Associated Press has named 17 Carthage football players "Little All-Americans" since 1938, including punter Tyler Funk, a 2010 honoree.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Emily Goetz
Former Carthage graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach Emily Goetz is now the head women's lacrosse coach at Loras College.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "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.
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 Baseball in the NCAAs
The Carthage baseball team made its 18th NCAA regional appearance in 2011.
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.
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