The Lodge at Carolina has a long and diverse tradition of athletic participation, with members competing in a wide range of varsity sports over nearly a century.
The University of North Carolina and Carolina alumni track student participation in extracurricular activities. See a list of Alpha Sigma’s athletes here.
Soccer has produced the largest number of participants, with 27 members competing from the 1960s through the 2010s. Other heavily represented sports include tennis (25 members), swimming (18 members), track and field (20 members), baseball (15 members), and cheerleading (12 members).
Several sports maintained a continuous presence across multiple decades. Baseball participants span from Leon Manley ’35 through Bryan Jenkins ’93, while football players competed from the early 1940s through John Dinges ’21. Tennis representation stretches from Henry Baggs 1930 to William Dillon ’23, including star Vic Seixas ’49, making it one of the fraternity’s longest-running athletic traditions.
The fraternity also produced competitors in a variety of specialized sports, including fencing (17 members), lacrosse (8 members), basketball (8 members), golf (4 members), gymnastics (2 members), crew (1 member), boxing (1 member), and wrestling (6 members). In addition, 18 members participated in the university’s marching band, demonstrating involvement in performance-based extracurricular activities alongside athletics.
Several members distinguished themselves by competing in multiple activities. For example, Philip Walker ’40 participated in both marching band and track and field; Jerome Houle ’67 was active in cheerleading and swimming; John Gussenhoven ’69 competed in both soccer and lacrosse; William Verhoeff ’70 played both soccer and lacrosse; Chris Mumford ’89 participated in soccer and tennis; and David Schnorrenberg ’86 and Jim Farmer ’88 both competed in football and track and field.
In total, the fraternity records approximately 194 athletic participations representing 177 individual members across 15 sports and extracurricular activities, reflecting a longstanding commitment to athletics, teamwork, leadership, and campus involvement from the 1930s through the present day.