E. D. (Edward Daniel) Fruth, Ripon College Class of 1912, has been elected to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Fruth was at Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) High School for 26 years, from 1914 until his death in 1941. He had served as the coach of the basketball, football and golf teams and […]
Ripon College is proud to announce the establishment of its inaugural esports team, which will begin competitive competition in the fall of 2025. Under the guidance of an experienced director/coach, for which a national search will launch in the spring of 2024, and with plans to join the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE), the […]
Robert Duley, a former head coach of track and cross country and adjunct professor in educational studies at Ripon College, has been inducted into the Wall of Fame of the School District of Westfield (Wisconsin). Prior to coming to Ripon College, Duley taught social studies at Westfield High School for 31 years. The Westfield “Wall […]
Ripon College announces that Kenny Finco has been selected as its next head coach of men’s basketball. He will assume his duties April 3. For the last six seasons, he has served as an assistant men’s basketball coach and an assistant in the sports performance center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. “Kenny’s cerebral approach […]
Ripon College senior Cormac Madigan of Rosendale, Wisconsin, has been awarded a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The NCAA awards up to 126 postgraduate scholarships annually. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically. The $10,000 scholarships are awarded three times a year corresponding to each sport season (fall, winter and spring). Twenty-one […]
Steve Wammer, head softball coach and associate director of athletics, was inducted into the Northland College Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 24. He began at the college in Ashland, Wisconsin, in 1999 as athletic director to lead the enhancement and expansion of athletics as well as the process of joining the NCAA. That process was […]
Red Hawks’ head football coach and defensive coordinator Ron Ernst has officially announced he will retire from Ripon College at the end of the 2022 season — his 32nd at the helm. During his head coaching career at Ripon, Ernst had led the Red Hawks to 184 wins and 113 losses, making him the winningest […]
Payton Rahn ’22 of Omro, Wisconsin, has received a $10,000 scholarship from the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee. The scholarship is a significant honor to both its recipients and their institutions. “The NCAA awards 21 scholarships to both men and women (42 total) each season (fall/winter/spring) across all NCAA divisions, so it’s a pretty big accomplishment […]
A question-and-answer interview with Brit Dick ’09 of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, was featured March 7 on Emerald Mountain Epic.com. She is a world-ranked ultrarunner, USA Triathlon All-American and Champion Burro Racer and spoke in advance of several races in mountain biking and running that she plans to compete in this summer. In “Confident, Not Braggadocious,” […]
Ripon Hall of Fame Coach Bob Gillespie will be inducted into Lewis University’s Academy of Coaches. He will be honored with three others during halftime of the Lewis University men’s basketball game Saturday, Jan. 15. Gillespie is the winningest coach in Ripon College history in both baseball and men’s basketball, with a combined record of […]
As National Athletic Training Month in March comes to a close, we honor the athletic training program at Ripon College. Brian Azinger is the head athletic trainer of the three full-time trainers at Ripon College. The others are Sami Woolson and Logan Galezio. Azinger says that an athletic trainer’s job is to prevent injuries and […]
Julie Heinz Johnson, revered athletic director, legendary Red Hawks Women’s Basketball Coach, and beloved ambassador for Ripon College, passed away Thursday, June 13, in Ripon at the age of 53. Johnson arrived at Ripon College as a 24-year-old basketball coach and exercise science teacher in 1990, after serving as assistant women’s basketball coach for South […]