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Heartland Community College Athletics

Welcome to Heartland Community College and the excitement of the Hawks' athletic program.

The college along with the Mike Veeck ownership group from Chicago are partnering to build a new $12 million stadium on the Heartland Community College campus. The stadium will be sport turf with a planned finished date of March 1, 2010 and will serve as both the home field for Heartland athletics and the new Independent League Team in Normal, IL. The minor league team will be a member of the Frontier League and will begin play in the summer of 2010.

Heartland is proud of the way it was represented in its first two years of Mid-west Athletic Conference competition. The Hawks' softball team, which was ranked as high as No. 6 in the country during the regular season 2008, took 3rd at the NJCAA Division II National Tournament.  They improved on the their previous season with a 2009 National Championship, defeating five time champions Phoenix College. The Hawks' baseball team announced its presence on the national scene finishing the 2008 regular season ranked No. 17 before taking 3rd place in the Region 24 tournament. In 2009 they finished 42-9-1, were ranked as high as fourth nationally, and took second place at the Region 24 tournament. Both the men's soccer team and women's soccer team experienced its own successes during the Fall 2007 and 2008 seasons setting the tone for the Fall 2009 season. Women's soccer took third place in the Region 24 tournament in 2009. 

For their performance on the field and in the classroom Heartland's softball athletes: Hannah Dow, Kaitlyn Ralph, Kate Singler, Shayla Hoenes, women's soccer athletes: Jill Hedrick, Camie Bartlett, Camele Altenbernd, Sarah McCorkle, Janeé Patton, Kristin Hendricks, and Jacob Hadsall (Baseball), and Brent VanLanduyt (Soccer) were named as 2009 Academic All-Conference Athletes. Heartland also had five athletes receiving NJCAA Academic All-American awards in 2009, Jill Hedrick, Kate Singler, Sarah McCorkle, Camie Bartlett, and Kaitlyn Ralph. Softball standouts Lizzie Andrews and Hannah Dow were voted on to the 2009 NJCAA Division II All-American team and softball coach Shae Wesley was named the 2009 M-WAC Coach of the Year adding to her 2008 Region 24 Coach of the year award. Baseball also had two athletes named NJCAA Division II All-Americans, Cody Gilles and Ryan Juris.

Heartland Athletics is proud of the moderate success it has already experienced and looks forward to building on that success. The student-athletes at Heartland have upheld the values and expectations of the athletic department and will continue to do so into the future in order to build a proud tradition that starts in the classroom and extends to the playing field.

If interested in an internship with the Athletic Department, please contact Nate Metzger (Athletic Director) at 309-268-8418 or Nate Metzger.