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WHY BULLETS?
Athletes composing the teams of Gettysburg College were designated “Bullets” in 1924 by Paul L. Roy, city editor of the Gettysburg Times. The nickname originated after a Rotary Club dinner at the Quaker Valley Country Club at which football coach William W. “Bill” Wood spoke. Roy, a guest at the dinner, wrote an article for the Times the following day in which he compared the team to “Bullets,” a take-off on the Civil War Battlefield. Thereafter, the Times always referred to Orange and Blue teams as the “Bullets.”
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Gettysburg College sponsors 24 varsity sports - 12 for men and 12 for women - that compete at the NCAA Division III intercollegiate level. Gettysburg is as a founding member of the
Centennial Conference, one of the premier conferences for NCAA Division III athletics. The conference is home to some of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges, all of which are committed to excellence in academics and athletics.
The Centennial Conference holds championships in 24 sports for men and women. In 17 years of competition as an all-sport conference (1993-2010), Gettysburg has won 80 conference titles, 30 more than any other member institution. The Bullets have a total of 83 Centennial championships, having won the first three titles when it was a football only league. Among the 24 championship-sponsored sports, Gettysburg teams have laid claim to the most titles in men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, men's swimming (tied), women's swimming, and volleyball.
In addition to the team championships, Gettysburg student-athletes have accrued nearly 800 All-Centennial Conference First Team selections and individual conference championships in the past 16 seasons. A grand total of 57 Bullets have been named CC Outstanding Performer/Player of the Year in their respective sports, including two during the 2009-10 season:
Hollis Stahl '10 (Women's Lacrosse), and
Kyle McGrath '10 (Men's Lacrosse).
The national scene has been inundated with orange and blue as 292 Gettysburg student-athletes from 19 varsity sports have amassed 470 All-America certificates over the last century. Sixteen Bullets have been tabbed Academic All-America, including three-time selection
Molly Gale '05 (softball). Year-in and year-out, a large grouping of Gettysburg teams compete in the national tournament and make significant contributions. Both men's and women's lacrosse teams have played for the national title in the past decade, while the field hockey team won the school's only team national title (AIAW - 1980).
The following is a complete list of Gettysburg's Centennial Conference championships:
2008-09 Centennial Conference Men's Basketball Champions.
Men's Basketball (3)
2001, 2002, 2009
Women's Cross Country (1)
1994
Field Hockey (5)
1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001
Football (3)
1983, 1984, 1985
Men's Golf (3)
1994, 1995, 2002
Women's Golf (1)
2008
Men's Lacrosse (13)
1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Women's Lacrosse (6)
2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Men's Soccer (3)
1993, 1999, 2001
2008-09 Centennial Conference Women's Swimming Champions.
Women's Soccer (5)
1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2004
Softball (3)
1994, 1999, 2007
Men's Swimming (8)
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003
Women's Swimming (11)
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009
Women's Tennis (1)
1996
Women's Indoor Track & Field (2)
1994, 1995
Women's Outdoor Track & Field (4)
1994, 1997, 2003, 2004
Volleyball (11)
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
