By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Athletic Department at HutchCC was able to navigate the busiest semester ever thanks to the pandemic and have unprecedented success.
"We didn't know what to expect," said Athletic Director Josh Gooch. "I will tell you, it says a lot about the people we have at Hutchinson Community College. The coaches just stuck to the plan. Our college had a plan as far as the COVID stuff. This is just a result of everybody putting their heads down and working together to make the most of the situation."
HutchCC's football team won a national championship earlier this month and the men's golf squad brought home both the individual and team titles.
"If you really just kind of break it all down, you talk about our faculty, our staff, all the people in housing, athletic training, those are the boots on the ground people that really get me excited about Blue Dragon athletics," Gooch said. "They allow us to be successful day in and day out."
The work now is to figure out how to sustain the success and the community helps with that.
"It's the people that come out and support us," Gooch said. "The amount of people that give of their time to come and cheer on the Blue Dragons. Hutchinson is a unbelievable, special place to be, now more than ever, but we have to give credit to those who have come before us."
Gooch looked back to the work of Randy Stange, Jack Morris, Sam Butterfield and Charles Sesher in building the foundation for Blue Dragon athletics that makes the program second to none at the NJCAA level.