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Facilities: Wartburg College is naming a cross country course currently under construction near campus for a local family with longtime ties to the school. The Max Cross Country Course, where grading has been completed and gifts currently are being sought for landscaping, is named for the family of the late Herbert Max, who retired in 1976 as a faculty member in the school’s education department. The course is within sight of the Max family home, where Professor Max’s wife continues to live. Four members of the Max family who participated in cross country at Wartburg are among leaders of the project, which is soliciting support from other alumni of the cross country program. A local construction company donated rough grading of the course, and members of the current men’s and women’s cross country teams recently spent a day removing rocks to prepare the course for seeding. There also are plans to plant trees in late April. “It will be one of a kind,” Wartburg cross country coach Steve Johnson said. “It offers the best of everything for cross country fans, athletes and coaches. You’ll be able to see meets from several vantage points without moving.” The course’s 135-yard starting line will be one of the longest in the country and will accommodate 40 starting boxes, and the course also will feature a permanent finish chute wired for use of timing systems. The facility will be able to host races at distances from 4 to 10 kilometers. The cross country program, whose men’s and women’s teams each won back-to-back Division III team championships in 2003 and 2004, previously ran at a local municipal golf course.
Milestones: Rich Ferchen won his 600th baseball game April 1 when State University College at Oneonta defeated Plattsburgh State University of New York. Ferchen’s 26-year victory total includes wins collected at Valparaiso and Hobart. He has coached at Oneonta State since 1996 ... Kara Kehe collected her 200th victory in softball when Wartburg beat Judson College of Illinois March 8 during a winter break trip in Arizona.
Miscellaneous: Harry Stephenson, who as assistant to the athletics director is in the 70th year of an association with Transylvania College as a student, coach, administrator or teacher, will be honored at a reception and dinner April 26. The 90-year-old Stephenson attended the school during the late 1930s and eventually graduated after military service. After graduate work and a stint as a teacher and coach at a high school, he became a physical education instructor and coach at Transylvania in 1948 and hasn’t left since. In addition to coaching basketball, baseball and golf at the school, Stephenson hired C.M. Newton — who later distinguished himself as a basketball coach and administrator and currently chairs the National Invitation Basketball Tournament Committee — to his first basketball coaching position while serving as athletics director at the school. Newton is scheduled among speakers who will honor Stephenson at the dinner, from which a portion of proceeds will benefit a Transylvania scholarship fund.
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By Jack Copeland
The NCAA News
The NCAA News
Facilities: Wartburg College is naming a cross country course currently under construction near campus for a local family with longtime ties to the school. The Max Cross Country Course, where grading has been completed and gifts currently are being sought for landscaping, is named for the family of the late Herbert Max, who retired in 1976 as a faculty member in the school’s education department. The course is within sight of the Max family home, where Professor Max’s wife continues to live. Four members of the Max family who participated in cross country at Wartburg are among leaders of the project, which is soliciting support from other alumni of the cross country program. A local construction company donated rough grading of the course, and members of the current men’s and women’s cross country teams recently spent a day removing rocks to prepare the course for seeding. There also are plans to plant trees in late April. “It will be one of a kind,” Wartburg cross country coach Steve Johnson said. “It offers the best of everything for cross country fans, athletes and coaches. You’ll be able to see meets from several vantage points without moving.” The course’s 135-yard starting line will be one of the longest in the country and will accommodate 40 starting boxes, and the course also will feature a permanent finish chute wired for use of timing systems. The facility will be able to host races at distances from 4 to 10 kilometers. The cross country program, whose men’s and women’s teams each won back-to-back Division III team championships in 2003 and 2004, previously ran at a local municipal golf course.Milestones: Rich Ferchen won his 600th baseball game April 1 when State University College at Oneonta defeated Plattsburgh State University of New York. Ferchen’s 26-year victory total includes wins collected at Valparaiso and Hobart. He has coached at Oneonta State since 1996 ... Kara Kehe collected her 200th victory in softball when Wartburg beat Judson College of Illinois March 8 during a winter break trip in Arizona.
Miscellaneous: Harry Stephenson, who as assistant to the athletics director is in the 70th year of an association with Transylvania College as a student, coach, administrator or teacher, will be honored at a reception and dinner April 26. The 90-year-old Stephenson attended the school during the late 1930s and eventually graduated after military service. After graduate work and a stint as a teacher and coach at a high school, he became a physical education instructor and coach at Transylvania in 1948 and hasn’t left since. In addition to coaching basketball, baseball and golf at the school, Stephenson hired C.M. Newton — who later distinguished himself as a basketball coach and administrator and currently chairs the National Invitation Basketball Tournament Committee — to his first basketball coaching position while serving as athletics director at the school. Newton is scheduled among speakers who will honor Stephenson at the dinner, from which a portion of proceeds will benefit a Transylvania scholarship fund.© 2010 The National Collegiate Athletic Association
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