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Mikey Swider, All-Conference and All-Region linebacker, and All-American wrestler from Wheaton is training in Albuquerque, NM with Jon Jones the #1 pound for pound MMA fighter in the world. Mikey is in the ring with Jones 60 - 80 minutes every day. Nobody else.

Below are 4 pictures. The top left is Mikey and other MMA fighters. The top right is Mikey and Jon Jones. The bottom left is Mikey, Jon, and Holly Holm, the female fighter who knocked out Rhonda Rousey to become the #1 female MMA fighter in the world. The bottom right is Mikey with Jon and 3 coaches watching film of his opponent.

WFMP - The Wheaton Football Ministry Partnership travelled again over last week's spring break for the 17th consecutive year partnering alongside former Wheaton Football players who work and serve as missionaries.  83 members of the current team with 8 former players as leaders served in 5 different locations. Several coaches participated in this trip, as well. Havana, Cuba; Capetown, South Africa; Palo Alto, Dominican Republic; Hate de Yaque, Dominican Rep.; and Selma, Alabama. These football players prepare for this opportunity to serve all year. Coach Jeff Peltz, defensive line coach and spiritual coordinator, spearheads this effort.

Quote from: Augie6 on January 12, 2015, 07:59:04 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 12, 2015, 06:20:42 PM

Up until about a decade ago, or perhaps a decade and a half, the conventional wisdom around the CCIW was that the league had never had an all-sports trophy because, as one wag once put it, "Augie would've run out of room to put them all." Every year, perhaps dating back even as far as 1960 (the year after Wheaton was kindly invited to exit what was then called the College Conference of Illlinois so that the Crusaders could go pick on somebody their own size), Augustana regularly won more CCIW titles and finished higher in the standings across the breadth of CCIW sports than did anybody else. With the exception of a few outliers such as men's cross-country (take a bow, Al Carius of NCC) and, later, men's soccer (in which it took other CCIW programs a decade and a half before even one of them was able to compete with longtime national powerhouse Wheaton under Joe Bean), the rule of thumb in the CCIW was that, no matter the sport, if you wanted to win the title you'd probably have to go through Rock Island in order to do it, since Augie was typically one of the top two or three contenders regardless of the sport.

That's certainly not true anymore. As Hardwood pointed out, there are still Augustana programs that are very strong (and even, as is the case in men's basketball, dominant) within this circuit. But, as Augie6 pointed out in rebuttal, those tend to be programs that were already strong under coaches whose tenure dates back to the era of all-sports dominance. The question is this, however: Is the decline of Augustana in terms of all-sports CCIW dominance a function of the Augustana administration's lessening interest in, and emphasis upon, athletics success, or is it a function of one or more CCIW rivals upping the ante?

Mr. Sager,

I didn't go into that in my response to Hardwood, but you are spot on in your comments about Augie's performance in multiple sports of over many years.  Something has definitely changed and I think it's probably a combination of factors that you mention.  Clearly, some of the programs in the CCIW and throughout the country have made changes which have served to "up the ante" as it relates to competing at a high level in athletics.  Schools have invested in facilities and brought in the right people to run the athletic programs, and, as a result have seen a significant increase in their athletic successes.  NCC is probably the best example of this in the CCIW over the past decade, particularly as it relates to their successes in football, men's basketball and wrestling to go with the always strong men's track and field and cross country programs. 

fyi:
http://athletics.wheaton.edu/news/2014/12/24/GEN_1224144457.aspx?path=gen

I understand the prevent defence at the end of the Wheaton win. NCC had just scored on a long pass. If NCC scored again on a long pass, a recovered onside kick and another long pass would tie the score. NCC had been successfully working the Wheaton 2nd team corner all game, as Wheaton's 1st team corner was sitting out the game due to an injury. Perhaps the win was more important. Wheaton's second string corner still did an admirable job as a replacement as he had several big hits.

Jeffrey is a former Wheaton football player and current student.

Nancy Swider-Peltz Jr, a former Wheaton College swimmer and current student, competed in long-track speedskating at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver finishing 4th and 9th in her 2 races.
Nancy is the daughter of long-time Wheaton football coach Jeff Peltz and Nancy Swider-Peltz Sr, and the neice of head football coach Mike Swider.
Nancy Swider-Peltz Sr was an All-American swimmer for Wheaton College, a Wheaton College graduate, a 4 time olympian and also a former world record holder. Nancy Sr competed in the 76, 80, 84, and 88 Winter Olympics, also in long-track speedskating.
Nancy Sr has been coaching American speedskaters since her days as a competitor. Currently Nancy Sr is coaching Nancy Jr and son Jeffrey to hopefully make the 2014 Winter Olympics.