The Jack Swartz Academic All-Conference award is named after the former Wheaton College tennis coach, athletics director and College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) commissioner.

Swartz enjoyed a distinguished career in intercollegiate athletics, both as a student-athlete and coach, as well as an administrator.

He played football for Wheaton from 1948-1951, receiving All-Conference honors on both offense and defense.

After graduating from Wheaton in 1952, Swartz went on to earn a Master’s degree from Michigan State in 1953, and a doctorate in education from Northern Colorado in 1973.

Swartz returned to Wheaton in 1958 as a member of the physical education faculty and as the tennis coach. He later went on to coach the football team as well.

Swartz became Wheaton’s athletics director from 1975-1982 and served as the commissioner of the CCIW from 1987 until his death on July 11, 1997.

Bio Courtesy of Wheaton College Sports Information