Bowling Congress (USBC). CCSJ competes in 17 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, soccer, sprint football (2022), track & field and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, soccer, softball, track & field and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading and competitive dance. Former sports included men's wrestling (which was added as a varsity sport back in the 2009–10 school year). Bowling CCSJ men's bowling finished second in the nation at USBC Collegiate Championships, in the 2009–10 school year. In 2016, the men's bowling teamed moved up and ranked first in the US at the USBC Collegiate Championships. Sprint football CCSJ will add sprint football, a weight-restricted form of American football governed separately from the NAIA or the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), in the 2022 fall season. It will be one of six charter members of the Midwest Sprint Football League. Notable alumni Carmen Lomellin, an American diplomat of Mexican heritage from East Chicago, Indiana. Lomellin was the United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2009 to 2016. Eddie D. Melton, Indiana State Senator, and manager of corporate citizenship and employee involvement at NIPSCO. Michael Puente, award-winning radio and newspaper reporter for WBEZ, Chicago's NPR-affiliate. Rick Soria, former president of Miami Dade College (Wolfson Campus) and former president of Ivy Tech Community College, Michigan City. Dan C. Stevenson, former Indiana State Representative and steel worker, from Hammond and Highland, Indiana. Ronald Tabaczynski, former Indiana State Representative, former Lake County councilman, and current government affairs director for BOMA/Chicago from Hammond, Indiana. Darrow Tully, former publisher of the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette newspapers, published in Phoenix, Arizona. References External links Official athletics website Northwest Indiana Catholic universities and colleges in Indiana Educational institutions established in 1951 Education in Lake County, Indiana Buildings and structures in Lake County, Indiana Roman Catholic Diocese of Gary Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference 1951 establishments in Indiana Missionaries of the Precious Blood