Marietta College#Athletics

Marietta College began as the Muskingum Academy in 1797, which was the birth of higher education in Ohio. In April 1797, which was only nine years after Ohio had been settled, a committee of Marietta citizens, led by General Rufus Putnam (the "Father of Ohio"), met to establish a college. The Muskingum Academy, completed late that year, became the first institution of its kind in the Northwest Territory, providing "classical instruction ... in the higher branches of an English education." Its first instructor was David Putnam, a 1793 Yale graduate.Hubbard, Robert Ernest. General Rufus Putnam: George Washington's Chief Military Engineer and the "Father of Ohio," pp. 156, 187, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina. {{ISBN|978-1-4766-7862-7}}.Hildreth, Samuel Prescott. Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio, p. 82, Badgley Publishing Company, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0615501895}}.

The academy eventually evolved into a college, initially chartered as the Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary on January 16, 1833. However, this institution lacked the critical authority to grant degrees, so a wholly new charter was approved two years later, bringing the renamed Marietta College into existence on January 16, 1835. The former Muskingum Academy was continued as the Marietta College College Preparatory Department until its elimination in 1913.{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Wayne |title=MARIETTA COLLEGE AND THE OHIO COMPANY |url=https://resources.ohiohistory.org/ohj/browse/displaypages.php?display[]=0044&display[]=290&display[]=300 |website=resources.ohiohistory.org |publisher=Ohio History Journal |access-date=September 24, 2023}}

==Academics==

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Marietta College is a Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts institution, requiring students to complete courses in Quantitative Reasoning, Artistic Expression, Civilization & Culture, Social Analysis, and Scientific Inquiry regardless of their major track. Additionally, students are required to have a secondary academic concentration, complete an out-of-classroom education experience, and achieve proficiency in a second language.{{cite web |url=https://www.marietta.edu/sites/default/files/documents/gened_auditsheet_19-20_v6.pdf |title=General Education |date=April 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525021839/https://www.marietta.edu/sites/default/files/documents/gened_auditsheet_19-20_v6.pdf |archive-date=May 25, 2022}}

There are three honors tracks: curriculum honors, research honors, and college honors. The curriculum honors track provides a course of study for accomplished students. The research honors designation varies across disciplines but typically involves the writing and defense of a thesis. When a student completes the honors curriculum and successfully defends an honors thesis, they achieve college honors status.{{cite web |url=https://www.marietta.edu/sites/default/files/documents/honors_18-19.pdf |title=Honors |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525021839/https://www.marietta.edu/sites/default/files/documents/honors_18-19.pdf |archive-date=May 25, 2022}}

The McDonough Center for Leadership and Business at Marietta College started in 1986 with a $5.5 million gift from the Bernard P. McDonough family. With an inaugural cohort of 28 students, the center originally only offered a Certificate in Leadership Studies. The center today offers a bachelor's degree in International Leadership Studies, a minor, and a Certificate in Leadership Studies. There is also the Teacher Leadership Certificate (TLC), an academic program designed for students pursuing careers in education.{{Cite thesis|last=McNaboe|first=Dennis|date=2011|title=A Study of the Relationship between Participation in Marietta College's McDonough Leadership Program and the Leadership Development of College Students|url=https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3102|type=EdD dissertation |publisher=West Virginia University |doi=10.33915/etd.3102|doi-access=free|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=October 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020211727/https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3102/|url-status=live}}

Marietta College maintains a partnership with the University of International Relations, a university with ties to the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China.{{Cite book |last=Golden |first=Daniel |title=Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities |title-link=Spy Schools |date=October 10, 2017 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |isbn=978-1-62779-636-1 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFsDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 85]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFsDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89 89] |language=en |oclc=967864126 |author-link=Daniel Golden }} - [https://web.archive.org/web/20210116202951/https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFsDgAAQBAJ Google Books profile] - Pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFsDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 86]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFsDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 87] explicitly say there is a "partnership".{{Cite web|url=https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/universities/university-of-international-relations|title=University of International Relations|website=Australian Strategic Policy Institute|language=en-au|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127195122/https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/universities/university-of-international-relations/|archive-date=November 27, 2019|access-date=November 27, 2019}}{{Cite news|last=Kelly|first=Michael|url=https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/2017/10/book-about-chinese-students-training-lists-marietta-college/|title=Book about Chinese students' training lists Marietta College|date=October 27, 2017|work=The Marietta Times|access-date=February 19, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027104438/https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/2017/10/book-about-chinese-students-training-lists-marietta-college/|archive-date=October 27, 2017}}

In 2021, Marietta was included in national rankings by U.S. News & World Report as #3 for Best Value Schools and #8 for Regional Colleges in the Midwest.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Marietta College|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/marietta-college-3073|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204124455/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/marietta-college-3073|archive-date=February 4, 2021|access-date=|website=}} College Factual ranked Marietta #20 out of 80 Ohio schools.{{Cite news|date=February 20, 2013|title=Search|url=https://www.collegefactual.com/search/|access-date=January 24, 2021|website=College Factual|language=en|archive-date=December 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207130620/https://www.collegefactual.com/search/|url-status=live}} In 2024, Washington Monthly ranked Marietta 32nd among 223 colleges that award almost exclusively bachelor's degrees in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.

There are several national and international fraternities and sororities on campus. Students attending Marietta College have the opportunity to qualify for any of 23 honor societies.{{cite web |url= http://www.marietta.edu/honor-societies |title= Marietta College Honor Societies |access-date= February 19, 2018 |date= April 22, 2016 |archive-date= February 20, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180220151854/http://www.marietta.edu/honor-societies |url-status= live }}

==Athletics==

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Marietta College is a member of the NCAA Division III and the Ohio Athletic Conference,{{Cite web|url=http://www.oac.org/landing/index|title=Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC)|website=Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC)|access-date=March 4, 2017|archive-date=March 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312153316/http://www.oac.org/landing/index|url-status=live}} a 10-team collegiate conference founded in 1902 and the third-oldest in the nation.{{Cite web|url=http://oac.org/information/History/OAC_HISTORY_2012__3_.pdf|title=Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC)|website=Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC)|access-date=July 10, 2017|archive-date=May 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521010512/http://www.oac.org/information/History/OAC_HISTORY_2012__3_.pdf|url-status=live}} The Pioneers compete in 22 varsity sports, including teams in crew, baseball, basketball, football, women's volleyball, track & field, cross country, tennis, soccer, and softball. They added men's and women's golf to the athletic department for the 2017 season and lacrosse in 2018.

Marietta's baseball team has won six national championships, and an NCAA Division III record: in 1981, 1983, 1986, 2006, 2011, and 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://pioneers.marietta.edu/sports/2013/7/22/BB_0722135001.aspx?path=baseball|title=Marietta College Athletics - History and Records|website=pioneers.marietta.edu|access-date=March 4, 2017|archive-date=March 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305034825/http://pioneers.marietta.edu/sports/2013/7/22/BB_0722135001.aspx?path=baseball|url-status=live}} The first three were under coach Don Schaly, who died on March 9, 2005; the three most recent have been under coach Brian Brewer. By repeating as the national champions in 2011 and 2012 the Pioneers became the first team to do that in NCAA Division III play since the Rowan Profs won back-to-back championships in 1978 and 1979.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/history/baseball/d3|title=NCAA Division III Baseball Champions|website=NCAA|access-date=July 10, 2017|archive-date=July 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709154543/http://www.ncaa.com/history/baseball/d3|url-status=live}} Five former Pioneer baseball players—Kent Tekulve, Duane Theiss, Jim Tracy, Terry Mulholland and Matt DeSalvo—have reached the Major League level.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

The crew program competes at the annual Dad Vail Regatta each spring in both men's and women's events, and earned a gold medal in the Men's Varsity Eight in 2006, and gold medals in the Women's Varsity Eight in 2011, 2012, and 2014.{{Cite web |url= http://pioneers.marietta.edu/sports/2010/3/25/WCREW_DadVail_History.aspx?path=wcrew |title= Marietta College Athletics - History and Records |website= pioneers.marietta.edu |access-date= July 10, 2017 |archive-date= October 8, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171008030935/http://pioneers.marietta.edu/sports/2010/3/25/WCREW_DadVail_History.aspx?path=wcrew |url-status= live }} Alumni include two-time Olympian and CEO of Boathouse Sports, John Strotbeck Jr., and 2003 World Championship silver medalist in the USA Lightweight Eight, Andrew Bolton.{{Cite web |url= http://pioneers.marietta.edu/news/2009/6/10/MCREW_0610090335.aspx?path=mcrew |title= Bolton helps U.S. win rowing gold |website= pioneers.marietta.edu |date= July 30, 2008 |access-date= February 19, 2018 |archive-date= February 20, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180220151814/http://pioneers.marietta.edu/news/2009/6/10/MCREW_0610090335.aspx?path=mcrew |url-status= live }}

Marietta sporting events are often broadcast on WMRT-FM, WCMO-FM, and WCMO-TV, the college's radio and television stations. All of the football games are broadcast on WMRT. Home football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, softball, and baseball games are all carried on the Marietta College radio network. The baseball games are also carried on WMOA, a commercial AM station in Marietta. WMRT and WCMO broadcasts are all produced and called entirely by students, many of whom are Mass Media students.

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Alumni of Marietta College are collectively known as the "Long Blue Line".{{cite web|title=Alumni|publisher=Marietta College|date=February 13, 2017|access-date=July 21, 2018|url=https://www.marietta.edu/alumni|archive-date=July 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721132637/https://www.marietta.edu/alumni|url-status=live}}

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