Lark Athletes of the Year 2018-19 - Cal Hartley and Lexi Avalos

Avalos, Hartley named Lark Athletes of the Year

The Hesston College athletic department announces the 2018-19 Male and Female Athletes of the Year, Lexi Avalos and Cal Hartley. Avalos was an outfielder for the Lark Softball Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) regular season champions and Hartley was a guard for the men’s basketball team. Avalos stepped up to help lead the softball […]

Samantha Trejo, Anawin Boonprasert, Bryson White, Kassandra Ayala, Kaylen Lassley, Jade Gleason, Cassidy King, Annalys Hanna

Eight Lark sophomores announce transfer plans

The following sophomores plan to graduate this spring and continue their education and athletic opportunities at schools across the country. Here is where the current commits are heading: Cross Country and Track Samantha Trejo (Lyons, Kan.): Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kan.) – NAIA Men’s Soccer Anawin Boonprasert (Bangkok, Thailand): Middle Georgia State University (Macon, Ga.) – […]

Yost construction fencing

Yost Center construction to reroute access for basketball fans

Progress on Hesston College’s campus construction projects recently extended to Yost Center. With basketball season still underway, the latest developments affect how Lark fans and guests enter the building for basketball games. On Feb. 1, crews began work at the spot of the new west entrance of Yost Center. Construction fences went up, making the […]

Hesston College women's soccer action photo - Miya Gonda

Gonda earns all-conference honors

Japanese soccer standout Miya Gonda was awarded with a Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) 2018 All Conference Soccer Women’s Western Division First Team selection. Due to Hesston College joining the Jayhawk at the beginning of the 2018 school year, Miya joins several volleyball players at Hesston College as the first class of student-athletes in […]

Student athletes and coaches rake leaves as a service project - The Lark Way

Raking leaves the Lark Way

Why did more than 100 student athletes, coaches and administrators rake yards full of leaves on the first Saturday in November? Because it is our commitment. Because it is The Lark Way. For 60 years Hesston College has been competing in intercollegiate athletics. Since then, sport has always been a piece of the greater whole […]

Hesston College Athletic Director Chris Nachtigall

Nachtigall to serve as athletic director

Hesston College announces the hiring of Chris Nachtigall as the Larks’ new athletic director. A 2001 graduate of Hesston College, Nachtigall holds a bachelor’s degree in sports management from Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa) and a master’s in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University (Irvine, Calif.). While at Hesston, Nachtigall played baseball and […]

Lark athletes named to the 2018-19 NJCAA All-Academic first team

42 Larks named to NJCAA All-Academic Teams

The Hesston College athletic department announces that 42 student-athletes have been named National Junior College Athletic Association Academic All-Americans. To be an All-American a student needs to complete a minimum of 24 credits over the two semester school year. The 42 student-athletes represents 24% of Hesston’s total athletes on campus. Congratulations to the following students: […]

Kansas Jayhawk Conference

Hesston College joins Kansas Jayhawk Conference

Starting with the 2018-19 academic year, Hesston College will be a member of the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC), one of the respected conferences in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). “We are excited to engage more closely with the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference,” said Dr. Rob Ramseyer, athletic director and vice […]

Hesston College's women's cross country team poses in front of a banner at the NJCAA national meet.

Lark women’s cross country finishes 22nd at nationals

A common refrain among the Hesston College cross country team is, “make good memories.” The women’s cross country team sure had that opportunity this past weekend in Fort Dodge, Iowa, as they competed in the National Junior College Athletic Association National Championship race on Saturday. They finished the season with great individual performances and a […]

Coach Gerry Sieber visits with freshmen Brandon Kirby (Potwin, Kan.) and Tobias Belknap (Inman, Kan.) at practice.

Coach Gerry Sieber to retire at end of cross country season

by Mackenzie Miller ’18, Matthew Gerlach contributing writer Runner’s World magazines dating back to the 1970s are piled high around his office. Team photos hang on the wall. And there, in the middle of all the memories, sits Gerry Sieber, reminiscing on his lifelong love for athletics and his 30 years at Hesston College, now coming […]