Benjamin Fisher ’23 of Waupun, Wisconsin, won the Theta Chi fraternity’s 2021/2022 James Ralph “Shug” Jordan Award which he received at the 166th Anniversary Convention held during the summer in Washington, D.C. He was selected from the fraternity’s 159 active chapters for its top scholar-athlete award for demonstrating impressive leadership service, and scholastic accomplishments as […]
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 […]
For the fall semester of 2020, Austin Bunders ’20 of Almond, Wisconsin, will be completing student teaching and finishing his last season of football for Ripon. He is majoring in physical education with minors in health and coaching. He is planning on a career in teaching and coaching. “The most important thing I’ve learned from […]
Lane Barnes ’19 of Selma, California, has signed with the Berlin Adlers, an American football club based in Berlin, Germany. The club is part of the German Football League and has won six German Bowls, 10 Ladies Bowls and five Junior Bowls. The preseason camp starts April 1, and the season will include 12 games […]
“Bob the Builder: Can Nielson’s winning formula lift up USD?”, a story about University of South Dakota football coach Bob Nielson, was published Aug. 23, 2018, in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader newspaper. Nielson spent two years, from 1989-1991, at Ripon College as associate professor of physical education and head football coach. The article details […]
Ripon College fit the bill for first-generation student Christopher Graham ’93. “I was looking for a supportive campus, a place where I would stay engaged and could also play two varsity sports,” Graham says. “A friend and fellow Whitewater High School alum, Maria Yao ’91, helped get me interested and stay connected through the college […]
Ripon College has been named the No. 1 school in Wisconsin whose grads earn the most in mean wages 10 years after graduation. The study, using data collected by the United States Department of Education, was published this week by Zippia, a new website dedicated to helping recent graduates with their career choices. The report […]