photo - several members of the inaugural class of the Hesston College Athletics Hall of Fame pose with current and former coaches and administrators.

College announces inaugural athletic Hall of Fame class

Hesston College is thrilled to announce the inaugural class of the Hesston College Sports Hall of Fame. The 2023 inductees include administrators and coaches Evan Oswald, Liz Hunsberger and Gerry Sieber and athletes Abner Kisare, Beth (Yoder) Hostetler, Solomon Abebe, Brent Eichelberger and Lisa (Schmidt) Graber . The inaugural class will be inducted during Homecoming […]

Hesston College Lark Baseball celebrates winning the Region 16 tournament with a team photo

Lark Baseball wins regional tournament

The Hesston College Larks came home regional champions this weekend after traveling to Union, Mo., for the NJCAA DII Region 16 Tournament. The Larks won each of their three games, by a combined score of 29-10. The pitching staff led the way with all three starters completing seven innings or more. Sophomore Trenton Canaan (Cheney, […]

Dr. Carren Moham, associate academic dean at Hesston College, awards Lark of the Year to sophomore Den Morita.

Hesston College students recognized for academic and leadership achievements at virtual LarkFest

Dr. Carren Moham, associate academic dean at Hesston College, awards Lark of the Year to sophomore Den Morita. Hesston College students and faculty were recognized for their achievements in academics and leadership in a virtual LarkFest Awards ceremony, broadcast on April 23. The top student award—Lark of the Year—went to sophomore Den Morita, Chigasaki, Japan, […]

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: […]

Sierrah Long

Softball, volleyball and nursing bring Californian to Kansas

Coming from southern California (Highland), Sierrah Long thought twice about attending college in the middle of Kansas. Turns out Hesston College had a lot more to offer her than she originally thought. As a nursing major, most schools, such as California State University-San Marcos and California State University-Monterey Bay, didn’t give her the option to […]