The Bethany Swedes (historically the Bethany Terrible Swedes) are the athletic teams that represent Bethany College, located in

Lindsborg, Kansas Lindsborg is a city in McPherson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 3,776. Lindsborg is known for its large Swedes, Swedish, other Nordic and Scandinavian Americans, Nordic and Sc ...

, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for higher education, colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic schola ...

(NAIA), primarily competing in the

Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The KCAC is the oldest conference in the NAIA and the second-oldest in the United St ...

(KCAC) since the 1902–03 academic year.

Varsity teams

Bethany competes in 18 intercollegiate varsity sports:

Football

Former coach

Ted Kessinger Ted Kessinger (born January 15, 1941) is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 1976 to 2003, compiling a record of 219–57–1 for a winning percentage of . ...

was named to the

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in 2010 and former coach

Bennie Owen Benjamin Gilbert Owen (July 24, 1875 – February 26, 1970) was an American college football player and coach of college football, college basketball, and college baseball. He served as the head football coach at Washburn College—now known Was ...

was inducted in 1951.

Tennis (men's)

Despite having a school population under 1,000, the Bethany men's tennis team has received national recognition. Bethany men's tennis team won 52

championships, including a streak of 26 KCAC titles in a row. The Bethany College men won 97 straight KCAC matches in a row under head coach Vic Bateman, undefeated in 11 straight years of KCAC Conference play. Under Bateman the men's tennis team reached the Elite 8 at the NAIA nationals and was ranked one of the top tennis programs in the country.

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* {{Kansas Sports