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]]>Christian Brutus in labFri, 24 Jul 2026 11:01:00 EST520046Gettysburg volleyball honored for academicshttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/23/volleyball-gettysburg-volleyball-honored-for-academics.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/23/volleyball-gettysburg-volleyball-honored-for-academics.aspxVolleyball

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Gettysburg volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2025 season.

The Bullets earned the honor for the 12th straight year, joining all 11 programs in the Centennial Conference to have the distinction. Nationally, 1,431 teams were honored by the AVCA.

Gettysburg was also one of 46 Division III teams to earn the additional distinction of Team Academic Honor Roll, which celebrates the top 20 percent of GPAs within the division.

To qualify for the AVCA Team Academic Award, a team must have maintained at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Volleyball Team Academic Honor RollThu, 23 Jul 2026 13:09:00 EST2320045Gettysburg women’s basketball team honored for academicshttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/23/womens-basketball-gettysburg-womens-basketball-team-honored-for-academics.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/23/womens-basketball-gettysburg-womens-basketball-team-honored-for-academics.aspxWomen's Basketball

ATLANTA, Ga. – The Gettysburg women's basketball team was honored for its academic success by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) recently.

The WBCA annually recognizes the Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll in each division (NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA, and two-year colleges) but, for the fifth year, all teams which qualified for the top 25 rankings with a minimum 3.0 GPA were also recognized for their academic accomplishment.

The Bullets were among the 143 Division III teams with a combined team grade-point average of at least 3.0. Gettysburg was one of six Centennial Conference teams recognized.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Women's Basketball Team Academic Honor RollThu, 23 Jul 2026 10:10:00 EST1320044Gettysburg team, nine individuals named to academic squad by IWLCAhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/22/womens-lacrosse-gettysburg-team-nine-individuals-named-to-academic-squad-by-iwlca.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/22/womens-lacrosse-gettysburg-team-nine-individuals-named-to-academic-squad-by-iwlca.aspxWomen's Lacrosse

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. – The Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) announced its 2026 Academic Honor Roll on Wednesday, and nine Gettysburg student-athletes were among the honorees.

The individual honors come in addition to the Bullets being honored for its success in the classroom. Gettysburg was one of 175 Division III teams, including all 10 Centennial Conference programs, to earn the distinction of an Academic Honor Squad with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.2.

Graduated seniors Lauren Bloch (Westfield, N.J./Westfield), Julia Daly (McLean, Va./Langley), Camryn Epstein (Medford, N.J./Shawnee), Maddie Passarello (West Chester, Pa./Unionville) and Dillon Troy (Mamaroneck, N.Y./Mamaroneck) as well as rising seniors Michaela Kelly (Chatham, N.J./Chatham), Ashley Kunzelmann (Avon, Conn./Taft School), Caroline Ragan (Dallas, Texas/The Episcopal School of Texas) and Caroline Storer (Arlington, Va./Yorktown) were honored.

Daly, Passarello and Troy graduated in May with degrees in business, organizations, and management while Bloch graduated with a degree in economics and public policy and Epstein graduated with a degree in health sciences. Kelly is also a business, organizations, and management majors while Kuzelmann is an economics major and Ragan and Storer are psychology majors.

In total, 1,350 student-athletes from 174 different institutions were honored. Students were nominated by their schools and have achieved at least junior status academically and a grade-point average of 3.5.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Women's Lacrosse Academic Honor SquadWed, 22 Jul 2026 15:01:00 EST1720043Gettysburg track and field teams honored for academics by USTFCCCAhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/22/mens-track-field-gettysburg-track-and-field-teams-honored-for-academics-by-ustfccca.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/22/mens-track-field-gettysburg-track-and-field-teams-honored-for-academics-by-ustfccca.aspxMen's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field

NEW ORLEANS, La. – The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association announced its All-Academic Teams for 2026 and Gettysburg was among the Division III programs recognized.

Both the Bullets men's and women's team were tabbed as All-Academic Teams. To qualify for the honor, the team must have a collective grade-point average of 3.1 or higher.

Gettysburg women were one of 213 Division III programs honored while the men were also one of 165 teams in Division III to earn the recognition. Seven of the nine Centennial Conference (CC) men's teams and nine of the 10 women's teams were among those honored.

Individually, recent graduate Lillian Boudreau (Adams, Mass./Hoosac Valley) was among the 906 total Division III female student-athletes and rising junior Eli Steel (York, Pa./York Country Day School) was among the 784 total Division III male student-athletes honored. Both had a cumulative grade-point average of 3.3 or higher and finished the indoor or outdoor season among the top 50 individuals as listed on the descending order lists on TFRRS and/or participated at the indoor or outdoor national championship.

-Go Bullets-

]]>All-Academic Teams for Track and FieldWed, 22 Jul 2026 10:40:00 EST1120042Gettysburg finalizes 2026 football coaching staffhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/21/football-gettysburg-finalizes-2026-football-coaching-staff.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/21/football-gettysburg-finalizes-2026-football-coaching-staff.aspxFootball

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Head coach Michael Green has announced the final three additions to the Gettysburg football staff, rounding out his initial staff for the 2026 season.

Hired on Jan. 13 as the Bullets' 27th head football coach, Green adds the final three staffers to bring the total number of assistant coaches on staff to nine.

Bill Lang joins the offensive staff and will have charge of the tight ends in Trey Kavanaugh's offense.

Brady McClintock rounds out the offensive staff as running backs coach while TJ Quaker joins the defensive staff, led by Zach Mallard, as assistant defensive backs coach.

Lang has spent the last three seasons as offensive coordinator at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. In his time in charge of the Pride offense, his unit established program records in every offensive category and most of the individual offensive records. He coached eight all-conference performers in three years and the program's first 1,000-yard rusher in junior second-team all-conference running back Caleb Perry.

In addition to serving as offensive coordinator, he was responsible for both the offensive line and tight ends during his time in Dubuque and served as the team's academic coordinator last year.

Prior to Clarke, Lang had multiple stints with a pair of Division I programs – Towson and Missouri, including serving as tight ends and fullbacks coach in Towson from 2019-22. He guided fullback Luke Hamilton to All-CAA second team honors in 2021 as one of the top blockers in the conference. Lang helped a pair of tight ends each have more than a dozen catches and a combined three touchdowns in 2019. His fullbacks helped block for an offense that had all-conference selections at quarterback and running back. He also served as the offensive quality control coach at Towson from 2014-16, breaking down game film and helping coach the offensive line, tight ends and long snappers. He also coordinated the defensive and special teams scouting units.

Prior to his return to Towson, Lang spent 2018 with the Missouri as a tight end graduate assistant and recruiter. He assisted in the creation of a new offensive playbook, assisted in drills and helped with all aspects of the recruiting process. He was also in Columbia from July 2016 to June 2017. He spent a season as the offensive line graduate assistant at Florida International between stints. FIU finished 8-5 in 2017 with an appearance in the Gasparilla Bowl.

Lang was an offensive lineman at guard and tackle at the College of the Holy Cross from 2009-13, helping the team to the Patriot League title in 2009.

McClintock played his collegiate ball at Lycoming as a wide receiver and tight end from 2019-22. Following his graduation with a bachelor of arts in psychology in 2023, he returned to Littlestown High School to help coach the Thunderbolts. He has served the last three seasons as wide receivers coach and defensive backs assistant. He was responsible for scouting opponents and assisted with the offensive and defensive concepts.

Quaker joins the Bullets staff after serving as offensive coordinator for Mansfield's sprint football for the last two seasons. He coached the 2024 Collegiate Sprint Football League Offensive Player of the Year and league MVP after Cahsid Raymond accounted for 1,159 all-purpose yards, ranking third in the league in rushing (604) and fifth in receiving (386). Over the two seasons, he coached 11 all-conference performers on the offensive side of the ball. Quaker coordinated the highest scoring and yard-per-game offense in the history of sprint football at Mansfield.

Prior to that, he served as a varsity football coach at West Perry High School since 1997. After working with the wide receivers and defensive backs in addition to coordinating the passing game, he was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2008 and spent his final 10 seasons as assistant head coach and strength and conditioning coach in addition to his duties as offensive coordinator.

In his time at West Perry, he coached the top six wide receivers in school history and four first-team all-state wideouts. In total, he coached 12 all-state players at wide receiver and defensive back and coordinated the top three scoring offenses in school history that included averaging more than 41 points and 420 yards per game in 2022.

Quaker has served as Dean of Students at West Perry since 2019 after being a special education teacher at the school from 1999-2019.

The entire Gettysburg football coaching staff for the 2026 season is as follows:
Michael Green, head coach
Trey Kavanaugh, offensive coordinator/quarterbacks
Zach Mallard, defensive coordinator/defensive backs
Shawn Magginson, special teams coordinator/defensive line
Jacob DiRenzo, linebackers
Bill Lang, tight ends
Gabe Marks, wide receivers
Brady McClintock, running backs
Connor Mundis, offensive line

TJ Quaker, assistant defensive backs

Gettysburg opens the 2026 season at Juniata on Sept. 5. Game time is 7 p.m.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Quaker, Lang, McClintock Football CoachesTue, 21 Jul 2026 10:43:00 EST520041Men’s basketball earns academic recognitionhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/15/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-earns-academic-recognition.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/15/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-earns-academic-recognition.aspxMen's Basketball

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the recipients of the 2025-26 NABC Team Academic Excellence Award and NABC Honors Court and Gettysburg was among those honored on Wednesday.

The Bullets were one of more than 400 programs to receive the NABC Team Academic Excellent Award, including seven of the 10 Centennial Conference men's basketball teams. The honor recognizes those teams that completed the 2025-26 academic year with a team grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.

Gettysburg also had six individual players among more than 2,400 men's basketball student-athletes across the nation named to the NABC Honors Court. The Honors Court includes juniors, seniors, and graduate students who finished the academic year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.

Recent graduates Aidan Mess (Brookeville, Md./Mt. St. Joseph), a computer science major, and Malachi Briscoe (California, Md./St. Mary's Ryken), a business, organizations and management major, and rising seniors Filip Puzic (Belgrade, Serbia/Western Reserve Academy [Ohio]), a business, organizations and management and mathematical economics dual major, and Ray Zamloot (Caldwell, N.J./James Caldwell), a mathematical economics major, were the four Bullets players named to the Honors Court.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Men's Basketball Team Academic AwardWed, 15 Jul 2026 12:47:00 EST320040Men’s lacrosse honored for academics by USILAhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/7/mens-lacrosse-mens-lacrosse-honored-for-academics-by-usila.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/7/mens-lacrosse-mens-lacrosse-honored-for-academics-by-usila.aspxMen's Lacrosse

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) recently announced its academic awards.

The Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team was among the 72 Division III teams honored with the Team All-Academic Award. The Bullets joined Haverford as the only two Centennial Conference (CC) teams recognized as achieving a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.

Individually, recent graduate Will Hedley (Charlotte, N.C./The Hotchkiss School) was tabbed Scholar All-Americans.

An economics major, Hedley was a second-team All-CC performer and honorable mention All-America nod. Playing all 17 games, he had 35 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers. He also contributed seven goals and three assists to the attack. He recorded multiple ground balls in 13 games, including five against Franklin & Marshall on Apr. 25 to go with two caused turnovers.

To be eligible for the award, an individual player must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 or better and earn either all-conference or All-America honors.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Team Academic AwardTue, 7 Jul 2026 15:40:00 EST720031Three Gettysburg swimmers, both teams earn Scholar All-America honorshttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/6/womens-swimming-three-gettysburg-swimmers-both-teams-earn-scholar-all-america-honors.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/7/6/womens-swimming-three-gettysburg-swimmers-both-teams-earn-scholar-all-america-honors.aspxMen's Swimming, Women's Swimming

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) recently released its Scholar All-America Teams and Individual Scholar All-America teams presented by Fitter & Faster for the Spring 2026 semester and Gettysburg was among the Division III teams recognized.

The Bullets men were once again highly successful in the classroom, posting a collective team grade-point average of 3.47. The women were also recognized after a posting a collective GPA of 3.46.

For the women, Gettysburg was one of 158 programs in the country recognized for a team GPA of 3.0 or better. The Bullets earned the Scholar All-America honors for the 24th consecutive semester.

On the men's side, Gettysburg was one of 138 programs in the country recognized for having a team GPA of 3.0 or better. It was the 23rd time in the last 24 semesters that the men's team was recognized.

Additionally, three Bullet individuals were named to Scholar All-America Teams for the 2025-26 season.

For the women, rising senior Lanie McKenzie (Wilmington, Del./Charter School of Wilmington) and recent graduate Bramley Hawkins (Camp Hill, Pa./Camp Hill) were honored while the men were represented by rising junior Connor Mangan (Pipersville, Pa./Central Bucks West). McKenzie and Mangan were first-team honorees while Hawkins earned second-team nods.

McKenzie competed individually in the 200 IM, 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke at the NCAA championship meet in addition to being part of four relays.

Mangan competed individually in the 200 backstroke at the NCAA championship.

Hawkins hit an NCAA B-Cut time in the 100 butterfly breaststroke at the Centennial Conference championship with a time of 55.81 seconds.

To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes earned a minimum GPA of 3.5 and participated in their national championship. Second-Team selections also earned a 3.5 GPA or higher and achieved a "B" time standard for the national championship.

The CSCAA Scholar All-America team awards are given in recognition of teams that achieve a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher during the 2025 spring semester. In total, 418 institutions from NCAA Division I, II, III and NAIA were named to the list.

In total, eight Centennial Conference women's teams and seven men's teams were recognized for their academics.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Swimming Scholar All-America TeamsMon, 6 Jul 2026 10:48:00 EST2020027Six Gettysburg athletes tabbed Academic All-Districthttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/6/23/womens-track-field-six-gettysburg-athletes-tabbed-academic-all-district.aspxhttps://gettysburgsports.com/news/2026/6/23/womens-track-field-six-gettysburg-athletes-tabbed-academic-all-district.aspxWomen's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Six members of the Gettysburg women's track and field team were named to the Division III Academic All-District track and field/cross country team, selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC) recently.

Academic All-District honorees are eligible to advance to the CSC Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced on July 15.

The following Bullets women's track and field athletes were honored as part of the program:

Senior Lillian Boudreau (Adams, Mass./Hoosac Valley), an environmental studies major
Senior Carys Cook (Henderson, Tenn./Laurelton Hall [Texas]), a psychology major
Sophomore Anna Hendrickson (Sykesville, Md./Marriotts Ridge), an environmental studies major
Senior Eliza Hoover (Mahwah, N.J./Academy of the Holy Angels), a business, organizations and management/economics major
Sophomore Bethany Rolley (Huntingdon, Pa./Huntingdon Area), a biology major
Senior Abbey Woodcome (Hudson, Mass./Hudson), a business, organizations and management/Spanish major

Cook claimed her third straight recognition while Boudreau earned her second straight.

To be nominated for the Academic All-America program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.5 or higher cumulative grade-point average and must have a mark that ranks in the top 50 of her region in at least one event. Up to six eligible student-athletes per institution can be selected to the all-district team.

-Go Bullets-

]]>Academic All-District Women's Track and Field/Cross CountryTue, 23 Jun 2026 14:09:00 EST2220026