WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - A year in which Mike Clark led the Lycoming College football team back into the conversation as one of the best teams in the Mid-Atlantic Region while also serving as the Director of Athletics as the department began to onboard reinstated field hockey and baseball programs and announced the department's move to the Landmark Conference has helped him earn the Robert Darrow Curry Coach of the Year Award for a third time.

Clark also earned the award in 2009 and 2012.
 
The 2021 Warriors were 8-3 overall, a four-game improvement over 2019, and 6-2 in MAC, finishing alone in second place. They won games close, like a last-second win over Stevenson, and not so close, like a 44-point shredding of Misericordia.
 
The team won the MAC-Centennial Bowl Series game against Ursinus, 31-23, the first time a MAC school won a game in the series since 2017. The team was listed in the first NCAA Division III Region IV Rankings, joining the conversation as one of the best teams in the country. Three players earned D3football.com All-Region honors (Ian Plankenhorn and Cole Senior were second team picks and Hunter Campbell third) and nine earned All-MAC accolades.
 
The classroom performance was just as impressive. Dan Jennings, David Tomb and Hunter Campbell were named to the Academic All-MAC Team, five seniors earned induction to the Hampshire Honor Society and two were inducted to Chi Alpha Sigma Athletic Honor Society. A record 36 Warriors were named to the MAC Academic Honor Roll.