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Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame

Michael Clump

  • Class
    1997
  • Induction
    2010
  • Sport(s)
    Soccer

Michael Aden Clump ’97
Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame
November 12, 2010 

Michael Aden Clump, your alumni association is proud to celebrate your stunning achievements as one of the great stars in Wabash soccer history. You came to the College in the fall of 1993 as a highly decorated student-athlete from Sacred Heart Griffin High School in Springfield, Illinois. Once on campus, you established yourself as one of the most prolific goal-scorers in school history. Coach Al Fye started you on defense, but moved you to center forward in your freshman year. The move paid off and you helped the team to an eight-game winning streak and 10-4 record by scoring a dozen goals. You were honored with your first of four First Team All-Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference awards and received All-Mideast recognition.

In the fall of 1994, you suffered through a difficult, injury-plagued season. While fighting back from an ankle injury, you started in goal four times and even recorded a shutout. By season’s end, you had returned to the field, scored eight goals, and were named the team’s Most Valuable Player. You ripped the nets with 20 goals in your junior year, including school and conference records of six goals and 12 points in an overtime win against Rose-Hulman.

You finished your stunning career by earning the ICAC’s Most Valuable Player award as a senior when you scored 13 goals with eight assists on a team that posted the school’s best record, 12-3. You were again named Wabash’s MVP — for a third time — and you earned your third straight Academic All-ICAC award. To this day, you rank second in Wabash history with 53 goals, 17 assists, and 123 points. You were a four-time First Team All-Conference selection, twice received All-Mideast honors, and you won the Pete Vaughan Award as Wabash’s outstanding athlete.

You were, perhaps, even better in the classroom. A psychology major, you made the Dean’s List every semester, were inducted in Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated magna cum laude. You would go on to earn your Ph.D. in biopsychology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and today you are an associate professor at Marymount College in Virginia.

The National Association of Wabash Men takes special pride when it inducts someone like you — a dictionary definition of student-athlete — in the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame. Michael Clump — Some Little Giant!
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