Sports
ICC is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association and participates in intercollegiate NJCAA basketball (Division II), cross country (I), soccer (I), men's baseball (II), men's golf (II), women's fast-pitch softball (II), and women's volleyball (II). Intercollegiate participation is only open to full-time students with a 2.0 grade point average.
Intramural sports include basketball, bowling, flag football, tennis, and volleyball. In 2008, an intramural "card series" was established with spades, euchre, and Uno tournaments.
There is a golf course and a tennis court on campus, as well as the Lorene Ramsey Gymnasium and Fitness Center, which was drastically expanded from 2009 to 2011.
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“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
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—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)