Campbell named head coach at IC After a successful apprenticeship as a top assistant, Garrett Campbell will fill a new role this fall as head football coach at Illinois College. Campbell, the offensive coordinator at Carthage for the past four years, will fill the position left vacant in March when Aaron Keen accepted a coaching position at Nebraska-Omaha. Athletic director Gale Vaughn said the coaching job attracted interest from more than 125 candidates. Campbell was the choice of the campus selection committee following a process that lasted nearly a month. “Garrett Campbell has all the qualities that are critical for success at the NCAA Division III level," Vaughn said in making the announcement. “He is committed to the success of student-athletes and passionate in his approach to teaching and coaching the sport,” Vaughn added. “We like what Garrett has accomplished and we are eager to see him extend that kind of success at Illinois College.” Campbell will take over a program that posted a 23-27 mark under Keen, including a 4-6 record in 2007. “I am excited about the challenge of taking IC football to a place where it will be recognized on a national level,” the new head coach said of his new gridiron role. “Our young men will have high expectations placed upon them, both on and off the field.” A California native, Campbell earned his bachelor’s degree at Cal State Fullerton in 1998 and the M.S. in education from Northern State in 2002. He was an assistant coach at Fullerton College from 1997-99, Northern State U. in 2000 and Willamette University in 2001 before accepting the offensive coordinator job at Menlo in 2002. At Menlo, Campbell was instrumental in developing that program into a consistent leader among the nation’s top Division III offensive teams. He moved to Carthage in 2004 and was a key member of a coaching staff that posted 31 wins over the past four seasons. The 2004 Carthage team finished 11-2, won the CCIW title and reached the national quarterfinals of the NCAA D-III championship playoffs. The new IC skipper was ranked as one of the nation’s "Hot Coaches" -- top prospects for a head coaching position -- by American Football Monthly prior to the 2004 season. Under his direction, Carthage set school records for rushing,, passing and scoring, and moved into the upper tier of the CCIW. Illinois College anticipates approximately 80 candidates to report in early August when preseason conditioning drills begin. The Blueboys open at home Sept. 6 against Millikin. | ||
| Permalink | May 15, 2008 | ||
Dutch punter doubles pleasure Kurtis Brondyke is following up his standout football season at Central with a stellar track season as well. The freshman, who was a D3football.com second-team All-Region punter, won the high jump competition at the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships, with a best of 6 feet, 6-1/4 inches, and was second in the long jump, at 23 feet, 2-3/4 inches. He has previously provisionally qualified for the national meet (May 22-24 at Oshkosh, Wis.) in both events. He's not the only Dutch football player lighting up the track for coach Kevin Sanger, himself a former Central star on the gridiron. Guy Dierikx won the conference 400-meter title for the third straight year in 47.92 seconds, a season-best effort and well under the NCAA provisional-qualifying mark. Dierikx, a third-team All-American cornerback, is just the fourth Central athlete to win three consecutive men’s league titles in the same event. Dierikx also anchored Central’s first-place 4x400-meter relay team. Central finished second to Wartburg at the meet. | ||
| Permalink | May 10, 2008 | ||
Ballard elected to Hall of Fame Former Mount Union quarterback Jim Ballard has been named to the 2008 College Football Divisional Hall of Fame class. The 2008 class will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame during the Enshrinement Festival, July 18-19, in South Bend, Ind. Ballard, a two-time First-Team All-America pick in 1992 and ’93, broke 17 Division III records and threw for 8,270 yards and 93 touchdowns. He won the first Gagliardi Trophy in 1993. The Ohio native played in the NFL, Canadian Football League and the Arena Football League during his 10-year professional career and led the Scottish Claymores to an NFL Europe World Bowl title in 1996. Inducted into the Scottish Claymores Hall of Fame in 2001, Ballard currently serves as the commissioner of the Continental Indoor Football League in North Canton, Ohio. Brad Rowland, who played for McMurry before the school became Division III, was also inducted. He was the Indians' all-time leading rusher and still stands atop the McMurry charts with 4,347 rushing yards. He helped McMurry to three consecutive conference titles from 1947-1949. | ||
| Permalink | May 8, 2008 | ||
Hendrix adds football
Division III football will come to Arkansas after the Hendrix College Board of Trustees decided to add the sport, contingent on the ability to raise start-up costs through external sources. Hendrix, which began studying the feasibility a year ago, will be the only Division III football program in Arkansas. "Athletics have always been secondary to academics here at Hendrix, and that will never change," said president J. Timothy Cloyd in a release. "We believe that Division III athletics enhances the whole person academically by providing opportunities to compete athletically against our peer institutions, and adding (football and women's lacrosse) only increases the opportunity for our students to compete on the playing field." Hendrix is a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, which recently added Austin (2006), Colorado College (2007) and Birmingham-Southern (2007). Southwestern and Oglethorpe are the only two SCAC members without a football program. Hendrix would be the 10th football member of the conference. | ||
| Permalink | May 7, 2008 | ||
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