LANCASTER, Pa. – Gettysburg College was represented by three student-athletes on the Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Football Team released on Tuesday.
 
The Centennial Conference is celebrating 25 years as one of the elite small college athletic conferences in the country with the announcement of its Silver Anniversary teams, highlighting the best of the best over our first quarter-century.
 
The three student-athletes from Gettysburg to make the squad were Ray Condren '85, Paul Smith '00, and Tom Sturges '08.
 
For inclusion on a Silver Anniversary team, a student must have a degree from one of the Conference institutions and met one of the following qualifications:
 
•       3-time or 4-time first-team All-Centennial performer
•       2-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year
•       1st team All-America AND 2-time first-team All-Centennial performer
•       2-time All-America (1st, 2nd or 3rd team)
 
For individual sports such as swimming and track and field, the accomplishments must have occurred in the same event.
 
Condren helped establish Gettysburg as a conference power in the early years of the league. The fullback was named All-CC First Team and All-America First Team in both 1983 and 1984. As a senior, Condren finished second in the country with 1,449 rushing yards. He completed his career second in program history with 3,312 career rushing yards. Condren was inducted into Gettysburg's Hall of Athletic Honor in 1995.
 
Smith ranks as one of the most decorated players in conference history. He was named All-CC First Team in each of his four seasons in the backfield and in 1999 he was tabbed CC Co-Offensive Player of the Year. A three-time All-American, including a pair of first-team selections by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Smith led Division III in all-purpose yardage in 1997 and he finished his career as the Division III all-purpose yardage leader. He set a still-standing national record with 527 all-purpose yards against Muhlenberg College during his senior campaign. Smith was inducted into the Hall of Honor in 2010.

Sturges was a three-time first-team all-conference honoree as a tailback and the 2007 CC Player of the Year. He was the conference's first-ever three-time rushing champion and he racked up a career-best 1,545 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2007. Sturges was named to the AFCA All-America First Team in his final campaign and closed his career second in program history with 4,287 career rushing yards.