Wabash College Athletics

A native of West Lafayette, you caught the eyes of the Wabash football and baseball coaching staffs as a versatile, talented, and fierce competitor at the high school level. Once at Wabash as Lilly Scholar and economics major, you wasted hardly a minute establishing yourself as the same type of player at the Division III level. You broke into the starting lineup as a rookie wide receiver in the fall of 1985, caught 22 passes, and gave Wabash fans a glimpse of things to come when you returned a punt for a touchdown. After taking a shot as a walk-on baseball player at USC in the fall of 1986, you returned to Wabash to become the finest receiver ever to play for the Little Giants. Over the course of the next three seasons, you caught every ball that was thrown to you (and a few that were not). You caught 206 passes in those three years; passes that covered more than 2,500 yards. You not only shattered every single game, single season, and career receiving record in the books, but you led all of Division III as a senior when you caught 87 passes for 1,169 yards and a Wabash record 12 touchdowns. You found the endzone 33 times; twice you caught 15 passes in a single game, even when defenders knew you were getting the ball; and you even played both ways in the 1989 Monon Bell Game, catching 10 passes, returning a kickoff for a touchdown, and making four tackles.
You were named an All-American in 1988, and were a consensus First Team All-American in 1989 when you were also named Wabash and Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference Most Valuable Player. Your talents were not limited to football, however, and you were a three-year letterman in baseball. You hit .407 in 1988, helping Wabash to a then-school record total of 21 wins by leading the team in doubles, steals, and runs scored. You still hold records for most runs scored in a season and for your career. For your ferocity on the playing fields; your leadership by example; and your Wabash Always Fights attitude in the face of adversity, the National Association of Wabash Men is pleased to induct you, Michael K. Funk, into the Wabash College Athletic Hall of Fame.