Starting the 2009-10 Sports Season
Monday marked the official start of the 2009-2010 sports season at Wabash College when 144 football and soccer players reported the Allen Athletics and Recreation Center.
The football team welcomed 51 freshmen to their ranks. Over half of the soccer team had just returned from a 10-day trip to Argentina, and were still basking in the memories of their South American adventure as they processed paperwork, took physicals, and ran the dreaded "beep test" to test their conditioning heading into the season. Imagine starting your first day at a new job by being asked to run back and forth over a distance of about 70 feet repeatedly, with the pace increasing every minute. The players were exhausted at the end of the session, ready to get to bed in preparation for the first practice on Tuesday.
The cross country team will join their ranks later this week, and will kickoff the start of fall competition with the annual Charlie Finch Alumni Run on August 29.
View a photo album from reporting day here.