Fall Season Champions

Cross Country Champions

The Ripon College women’s cross country team claimed the Midwest Conference Cross Country Championship for the first time in history. Ripon has had a women’s cross country team since 1987.

Football Champions

In their final regular-season game, the Red Hawks beat longtime rival Lawrence University 82-0. They ended in a threeway tie for first in the Midwest Conference standings, with Lake Forest College and Monmouth College. Lake Forest won the tie breaker to advance to the Division III playoffs.

Retiring Head Football Coach Ron Ernst, who was named Coach of the Year in the Midwest Conference and the Wisconsin Private College Football Awards, holds the Doehling-Heselton Trophy. The trophy represents the oldest college football rivalry in Wisconsin, between Ripon and Lawrence University, dating back to 1893. The Red Hawks now have won 21 straight games against Lawrence and lead the all-time series, 67-46-7.

Quarterback Jarrett Zibert ’24 of Las Vegas, Nevada, was among seven Ripon players named to the Midwest Conference AllConference First Team. He threw for 1,622 yards and 17 touchdowns and added 376 yards and another five scores on the ground. Zibert was the Red Hawks' secondleading rusher this season.