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Heartland Community College Athletics

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

Heartland Stadium is now on campus and ready for use starting this fall 2010. The stadium is sport turf and serves as both the home field for Heartland athletics and the new Independent League Team, the Cornbelters. The stadium is East of Heartland's main campus.

Heartland is proud of the way it was represented in its first three years of Mid-west Athletic Conference competition. The Hawks' softball team again made its way to the 2010 NJCAA D-II Softball National championship for their third year. The Hawks' baseball team announced its presence on the national scene finishing the 2009 regular season ranked 4th before taking 2nd place in the Region 24 tournament. In 2010 they finished 45-11, were ranked as high as 2nd nationally, were conference champions 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 2009 season setting the tone for the fall 2010 season. Men's soccer produced the national leading scorer, Javier Torres and finished 13-4-1 on the season. 

For their performance on the field and in the classroom Heartland's athletes: Rachel Fink (Softball), Beth Walther (W Soccer), Abby West (W Soccer), Jacob Hadsall (Baseball), Zac Johnson (Baseball), Steven Carlson (M Soccer), Brad Matthews (M Soccer) and Brent VanLanduyt (M Soccer) were named as 2010 Academic All-Conference Athletes. Heartland also had two athletes receiving NJCAA Academic All-American awards in 2010, Jacob Hadsall and Abby West. Men's soccer player, Javier Torres was named to the D-I Men's Soccer NJCAA All-American team. Softball standouts Lizzie Andrews and Nikki Laubecher were voted on to the 2010 NJCAA Division II All-American team. Baseball also had two athletes named NJCAA Division II All-Americans, Eric Aguilera and Dillon Napoleon. Aguilera and Napoleon also were named conference player-of-the-year and pitcher-of-the-year, respectively along with Zac Zellers being named conference freshman-of-the-year and Coach Metzger earning the coach-of-the-year award for both Region 24 and the M-WAC.

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.