Wabash Little Giants

Wabash Little Giants
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UniversityWabash College
ConferenceNorth Coast Athletic Conference
Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League (volleyball)
NCAADivision III
Athletic directorMatt Tanney
LocationCrawfordsville, Indiana
Varsity teams12
Football stadiumByron P. Hollett Little Giant Stadium
Basketball arenaChadwick Court
Baseball stadiumGoodrich Ballpark
Soccer stadiumMud Hollow Field
Lacrosse stadiumMud Hollow Field
MascotWally Wabash
NicknameLittle Giants
Fight song"Old Wabash"
ColorsScarlet
 
Websitesports.wabash.edu

The Wabash Little Giants are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent Wabash College, a small private school for men in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States. The college belongs to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and participates in Division III sports. The Little Giants compete as members of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC).[1] Despite the college's small enrollment and that it is "not a jock school",[2] the Little Giants have had success in several sports. The most popular among Wabash fans are football and swimming.[2] The Little Giants also have a well-respected cross-country team.[2] In football, Wabash has an important rivalry with DePauw University, and each season they meet for the Monon Bell Classic. Wabash and DePauw compete annually to win the trophy, the Monon Bell, and as of 2015 the two teams have played 122 games in the series with Wabash holding a 60-53-9 advantage.[3]

The Little Giants currently sponsor 12 varsity teams. Volleyball is the newest sport, having been added for the 2021 season (2020–21 school year); since the NCAC only sponsors volleyball for women, that team plays in the single-sport Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League.[4]

  1. ^ Athletics, Wabash College, retrieved June 30, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c Yale Daily News staff, The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, p. 337, Macmillan Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0-312-31618-6.
  3. ^ Dissecting the downfall of the Little Giants, The DePauw, November 18, 2008.
  4. ^ "Wabash To Join MCVL for 2020-21 Volleyball Season" (Press release). Wabash Athletics. June 27, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2019.