Danville Area Community College

Welcome to Danville Area Community College and our Athletic Department. Danville competes in eleven sports and is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) as well as Region 24 in the state of Illinois. DACC competes at the NJCAA Division II level and our coaching staff is committed to moving young people on to four-year institutions. We strive to win in the classroom and on the field of competition while also building character of our student-athletes. We believe that competing at the collegiate level is a privilege and that our student-athletes must take care of the classroom before they can compete. The ticket to the future is in the classroom. Thank you for visiting Danville Area Community College Athletics.

Tim Bunton
Athletic Director

Jaguar Current News (Week of 9/1/09)

Volleyball

9/1/2009 - Congrats to the Lady Jaguar Volleyball team after going 2-1 over the weekend in the DACC Quad Match. Danville defeated Morton College in the first contest 25-14, 25-12. The Lady Jaguars were defeated in the second match 25-12, 25-17 by Black Hawk East College. However, DACC bounced back with a 25-18, 25-13 victory over Triton College in their 3rd and final match. Freshman Kinsie Knox led the Jaguars with 8 kills on the day.

Men's Basketball

9/1/2009 - The 20th annual Danville JUCO Jamboree will be on Sunday, October 4th. Please go to the Men's Basketball page for more information.

Women's Basketball

10/20/2009 - The 20th annual Alumni Game will be held on Saturday, October 24th at 5:30. All Lady Jaguars planning to return to watch or play against the current Lady Jaguars should contact Coach Lyle Hicks, lhicks@dacc.edu, or call the office at 217-443-8810.

Baseball

4/29/2009 - The Jaguar Baseball team won 3 in a row, sweeping Shawnee College over the weekend. Up next, is a home game vs. Lewis and Clark College on Wednesday, April 29th at 1:00 p.m. at Danville Stadium.

Softball

5/27/2009 - . Congratulations to the following DACC Softball players for their post season honors.

NJCAA 3rd Team All-American
Terra Ramsey

All M-WAC
Bailey Herron, 1st Team
Terra Ramsey, 1st Team

M-WAC Player of the Year
Terra Ramsey

More awards and info can be found on the Softball home page. Congratulations to Coach Evans and the Lady Jaguar Softball team!

Men's Basketball

4/29/2009 - JAGS sign Two - DACC Head Coach Mike Carpenter announced the signing of two recruits on Monday Morning. Josh Wright, a 6'5 Power Forward from North Chicago High School and Tyler Thompson, a 6'5 Shooting Guard from Fort Wayne Elmhurst (IN). Wright averaged 13 points and 12 rebounds for the 24-6 Regional and Sectional Championship NCHS team. Thompson was averaging 21 points a game before an injury ended his season. Congratulations to Josh Wright and Tyler Thompson for signing National Letters of Intent with Danville Area Community College!

3/4/2009 - The Danville Area Community College Men's Basketball team began it's defense of their Region 24 Championship, hosting Spoon River College in the opening round of the Region 24 tournament on Wednesday night and defeated the Mudcats 117-67.

The Jaguars led by the score of 21-19 with just over 8 minutes remaining in the first half, but went on a big run to close the half, leading 55-32 at halftime.

DACC jumped on the Mudcats again to begin the second half, going on a 10-0 run in the first 3 minutes to lead 65-32. DACC shot a sizzling 70% (28-40) from the field in the second half.

All 12 Danville players scored, and 6 of them were in double figures. Leading the way was Tim Toler with 19 points and 8 rebounds, JT Hatfield with a season high 12 points, Billy Hayes with 11 points and 10 assists, Justin Hightower and Austin Smith with 11 each and Q Townsend chipped in with 10.

The Jaguars had another good night sharing the basketball with 39 assists and just 9 turnovers. DACC also scored 82 points in the paint and the Jaguar bench scored 71 of the teams 117 points.

DACC now advances to the Quarter Finals vs. Illinois Central College on Saturday, March 7th at 5:00 p.m. The game will be played at Rend Lake College in Ina, Illinois. The Jaguars previously faced ICC twice this season, losing 65-53 in January and winning 83-82 last week.

Women's Basketball

3/9/2009 - The Lady Jaguar Women's Basketball team saw it's season come to an end Saturday in the Quarter Final of the Region 24 Tournament, losing to Parkland.

Cross Country

2/17/2009 - Head Coach Brian Rohrbach would like to announce the following athletes
signing their letters of intent to run Cross Country at Danville Area Community 
College next fall.  Brice Dodds, Ivan Coronel, and Omar Caban will all be running 
for Coach Rohrbach for the 2009-2010 school year.  Brice comes from Unity High School 
in Tolono, IL where he was a state qualifier in cross-country for his junior and senior
year placing 48th overall in Class A.  Brice was also was named to the News-Gazette 
All-Area Cross Country Team for his senior year.  Ivan and Omar both come from Mather
High School in Chicago, IL.  Ivan was the regional champion from the Whitney Young 
Regional and Omar was fifth. Ivan was also the city champion and has a PR of 15:18 
while Omar has a PR of 15:35.  "I am very happy to have these three start their 
collegiate careers here at Danville.  All three of these kids come from good programs
and I expect them to contribute immediately to the success here at DACC."

Soccer

9/8/2008 - The Jaguar Soccer team is currently 4-1 after recent wins over Kankakee and Florissant Valley. Up next, the Soccer team will travel to Lincoln Land on Thursday, September 11th for a 4:00 p.m. start.