The Tabor Bluejays are the athletic teams that represent Tabor College, located in Hillsboro, Kansas, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) since the 1968–69 academic year.

Varsity teams

Tabor competes in 20 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field (indoor and outdoor); while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading.

Football

Final Score Tabor vs Benedictine 2013 01

The current head football coach at Tabor is

Mike Gardner Michael Norman Gardner (born March 9, 1967) is currently the football coach at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. Having left Tabor for Malone in 2006, Gardner was chosen to replace Mike Gottsch after Tabor's winless 2009 season. Gardner's t ...

. Coach Gardner returned to take over the 2010 season after serving as head coach for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, where the teams posted a combined record of 20 wins and 3 losses with two consecutive conference championships and two post-season appearances. In 2009, Tabor College built

Joel Wiens Stadium Joel Wiens Stadium is a sport stadium in Hillsboro, Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Mi ...

, a new football complex that is shared with Hillsboro High School. In 2012, Tabor redshirt Junior Brandon Brown was found

murdered Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the c ...

in nearby

McPherson, Kansas McPherson () is a city in and the county seat of McPherson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 14,082. The city is named after Union General James Birdseye McPherson, a Civil War general. It i ...

. Two former members of the McPherson Bulldogs football team were charged. As of October 5, 2012, the investigation is ongoing.

Women's basketball

Tabor college women's basketball team was nationally ranked in 2007.Hillsboro Free Press
"Tabor team spells consistency D-o-n-y-a" by Tom Stoppel, February 7, 2007

References

External links

* {{Kansas Sports