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CONTENTS Volume 3, Issue 5

Tim Nott

Doug LipinskiDoug Witte

Courtney ZudwegDJ Foster

Amanda Murphy

Kyle Schwerin

Jenison Printing

Jessica Beswick

Janine Freeman

Sandra Jennings

Sharon Kowalczyk

GVSU Sports Information

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EDITOR IN CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

ADVERTISING DIRECTOR

STAFF WRITERS

PRINTER

CONTRIBUTORS

3 Q&A

6 News in Brief6 5 Things To

Know ...

10 The Green Zone

13 Player Profiles

15 The Grid

16 Sandra’s Snapshot

Volume 3, Issue 6

GVSports Monthly Magazine • 1

WinterIssue

12Swimming & Diving

by Tim Nott

5Golf

by Dean Holzwarth

8Basketball Heads into Heart of the Schedule

w. basketballWomen’s team relies on experience as they head into the grind of the conference schedule

by Doug Witte

9M. Basketballby Kyle Schwerin

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-Q-Tell us about your background and howyou ended up at Grand Valley State?

-A-I was the head athletic trainer atNorthern Michigan for 13 years, inmy first full time job. We moved toAnn Arbor to be closer to family and Iworked a variety of sports as an as-sistant athletic trainer at Michiganfor six years. We moved here becauseI realized I wanted to be a head ath-letic trainer again, and an opportunityto work at a place like Grand Valleywas too much to pass up.

-Q-As the head athletic trainer, what areyour main responsibilities?

-A-I am the athletic trainer for the foot-ball team. In addition to that, I super-vise three full time and five graduateassistants in covering the rest of the20 GVSU varsity sports. I also coor-dinate physician coverage, help withsupervision of athletic training stu-dents and a variety of other adminis-trative responsibilities like medicalbilling and records.

-Q-What have been some of the high-lights during your time at GVSU?

-A-It seems like all of the sports teamshave on the field highlights every year.Recent championships in soccer andtrack and cross country have beengreat to see. It is always a highlightto see injured athletes return to play,and Rob Carlisle comes to mind assomeone who overcame two signifi-cant injuries and was able to get backto nearly normal, but there are manymore stories like his as well.

-Q-What is the greatest challenge ofbeing the Head Athletic Trainer ofGVSU?

-A-Often times the biggest challenge isthe time involved in doing a good job,and how it takes away from my timewith my family. Also, trying to providequality health care for 550 studentathletes, and combining that with thewants of 13 coaching staffs, organiz-ing schedules and things of that na-ture.

-Q-What do you enjoy most about yourjob?

-A-I most enjoy seeing a student athletereturn to a pre-injury level of partici - pation after an injury. Also, the prox-imity of Speedway (I have a thing fora frozen coke every now and then) is aplus.

-Q-What sparked your interest in athlet-ics and made you want to pursue thiscareer?

-A-Like a lot of athletic trainers, I was in-jured in high school, and saw athletictraining as a way to continue to be in-volved in athletics, and be part of anallied medical profession where help-ing people regain health is one of themain objectives.

-Q-What do you enjoy doing outside ofyour job?

-A-I like golfing when the weather andwork schedule permits. I enjoy coach-ing my son’s baseball teams as well.We do some camping in the summer,and traveling to visit family.

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Golf has provided Grand Valley State's

Marni Weinstein with opportunities that she never

could have imagined.

It also has served as a learning tool for life

beyond the confines of a course.

Weinstein, a junior from Farmington Hills,

hopes to instill the core values she has developed

through the game to her young playing partner Fri-

day afternoon.

The First Tee of West Michigan is holding

a unique event at The Meadows at Grand Valley

State that pairs collegiate golfers with participants

from the First Tee program.

The event, which includes golfers from

GVSU and Calvin College, will begin with a 4:30

p.m. shotgun start.

Nineteen First Tee golfers, ages 7-16, will

play in an alternate shot format for nine holes.

Girls will be paired with GVSU women’s

golfers and boys will be paired with Calvin men’s

golfers.

"This is an awesome way to help under-

privileged kids because golf is a great game that

teaches you a lot," Weinstein said. "It teaches you

to be honest, and how to persevere, and it just

teaches you a lot of life lessons that other games

don’t teach you.

"It’s a good outlet for them, and I want to

show them where golf can take them. It could give

them a lot of opportunities that they would not

have, like college."

The First Tee of West Michigan, which op-

erates from The Highlands Golf Course, was es-

tablished under the Lake Michigan Junior Golf

Association and approved as a chapter in June.

It is the official chapter of the leading

youth development organization, The First Tee.

The First Tee of West Michigan executive

director Tyler Smies said the program is in its in-

fancy, but is striving for growth in the upcoming

years.

It had 50 kids during the summer, and 24

in the fall.

"It’s been a good start for us, but we’re

looking to impact a lot more kids in the future as

we get the ball rolling," he said. "We want to reach

out to more schools to get more kids involved in

the program."

Smies said Friday’s event is another step

in the building process.

"I had two golf teams that really wanted to

be involved, so I was trying to figure out a way to

utilize their energy and interest and still make it

useful for our program," he said. "The thought of

pairing the kids with college golfers really

stemmed from the fact that we have so many fe-

male participants, and I wanted them to really con-

nect with a very good college golfer. Let them see

that this is a game played by a lot of women, too,

not just men."

Calvin junior Ben Kuiper, who was named

Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Most Valuable Player in men’s golf earlier this

month, is eager to share his knowledge and show

them how enjoyable the game can be.

"I love working with kids, and it should be

a blast," said Kuiper, a former standout at Grand

Rapids Christian. "I hope they will have fun and I

can get a couple of smiles out of them. This is a

chance for these kids to get out and play a game

that they normally wouldn’t get to play, and learn

a couple of values along the way.

"I’m looking forward to hanging out with

these kids and having a good time. I play a lot of

golf, so it will be easy for me to relate to them."

GOLF

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Women’s Lacrosse Coach Awarded

GVSU’s head women’s lacrosse coach Alicia Groveston

was honored with the 2011 Intercollegiate Women’s

Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Service Award

at the annual IWLCA Meetings in Naples. This award is

given to the individual who has committed themselves to

the betterment of the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse

Coaching Association during the past year. Groveston

earned this award after participating as the treasurer/sec-

retary of Lax-4-Life, a national lacrosse campaign to pro-

vide and support programs geared toward adolescent and

young adult suicide prevention awareness. Grand Valley

State lacrosse will begin its very first season of competi-

tion in 2012.

Laker Basketball Pizza Wars

GVSU is hosting Laker Basketball Pizza Wars on De-

cember 10th. Local pizza vendors from around the

Grand Rapids area will engage in friendly competition

for fan votes. The Laker basketball teams have a dou-

bleheader of basketball action and Pizza Wars will take

place during the games. Voting will be from 1:00-

3:00pm. Different awards will be given according to fan

votes. Come on out for free pizza and great basketball!

GVSU Basketball Camper Reunion Night

If you attended any of the men’s or women’s basketball

summer camps in 2011 then you can get into the basket-

ball game free on Saturday, January 14th. GVSU Ath-

letics is promoting Camper Reunion Night to all past

campers. All campers need to simply wear their camp

shirt and receive free admission to the basketball games.

Come on out for some great Laker basketball action!

Women play at 6:00pm and men play at 8:00pm. Call

the GVSU Athletic Ticket Office at 331-3200 for tickets.

Lakers Look to Qualify for the Olympics

Former all-american track and field runners, Adrian

Chouinard and Jeanette (Seckinger) Faber, reached new

heights in the marathon. Each have earned the opportu-

nity to attempt to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics

in London. The trials are held in Houston, Texas in Jan-

uary.

Hammer Time

Another former Laker runner, Chris Hammer, is a part of

the USA Paralympic Team and won the gold medal in the

T-46 1500 at the 2011 Parapan American Games in

Guadalajara, Mexico on Nov. 16, 2011.

I’m the face of GVSU

Being the face of GVSU is really great. Everyone knows exactly who I am

when I am out on campus and who I am representing. I enjoy being the face

of GVSU because I am representing a great school with a great athletics pro-

gram. I really take pride in that and am glad that I can continue the tradition.

GO LAKERS!

Community events are great!

Helping out at community events is extremely important to me. I love that I

can go out to different events and make kids smile. I always aim for a smile

out of the kids and people I see. I love when organizations contact me and

want me to come to their event. I make sure that I do everything I can to go

to everyone’s event and make an appearance in the community. I enjoy going

out into the community because I am representing GVSU and I’m honored to

do so.

I’m a great listener

Being the strong silent type has always been easy for me; I stick to nonverbal

communication. I think that in the way I move and motivate fans to cheer

shows that you don’t have to be loud to get the message across. I believe that

my actions say enough to get the Laker fans involved in games and influence

the game day atmosphere. Silence is the one characteristic that I have that

will never change but can always be used as an advantage to create a great

game day environment.

The best part of my job is ...

I can go to all sporting events. Going to the sporting events is fun because I

can make the game day atmosphere come alive. I love seeing the faces on

students who are excited that I am there and having a good time. It is fun to

interact with the students and get them to cheer the teams on. I especially

enjoy the kids that are at the games because they are excited to see me and

give me a hug or a high five. One time a little girl told me that she wanted to

be me when she grew up. That just made me proud to be a Laker!

My main responsibility is ...

My biggest job is to get fans to the events and ensure they have a great time

there. Whether in the community or on campus, I consider it my responsibility

to communicate how great it is to be a Laker! When we are having our big ri-

valry games I make sure to get out on campus and promote the game for the

whole week in order to raise campus awareness. Sometimes I even get out

into the community to promote our bigger events. I hope that by having me

go out on campus and in the community would raise the awareness of the

games.

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LADIES PREPARE FOR THE heart of

the 2011-12 basketball

schedule

Early in the basketball season,the women’s team hasn’t taken theeasy road to the conference schedule.Head coach Janel Burgess knows herteam needs to be fully prepared tofight its way through the heart of theconference schedule in Decemberand January.

In order to get to that point,the Lakers faced a strong non-confer-ence schedule throughout November.The team faced Michigan State inEast Lansing in an exhibition game tokick off the month. The Lakers thenwent on the road to face St. Joseph’s(Ind.) and Wisconsin-Parkside.GVSU hosted GLVC foe Urbana toclose out November.

Just a few weeks into the sea-son, GVSU has already seen the ex-pected production from key playerson the team. Preseason all-conferenceselections Briauna Taylor and AlexStelfox have both lived up to theirreputations thus far. Both players are

averaging double digits in scoring forBurgess’ team.

Brittany Taylor has seen herproduction rise in the young season.She has stepped up on the offensiveend, becoming one of the most con-sistent scorers for Grand Valley, lead-ing the team in that department so far.

Along with Stelfox and theTaylor twins, GVSU has seen im-proved play from Jasmine Padin atthe point. Padin has logged heavyminutes creating problems for otherteams when the Lakers are on the de-fensive end of the court.

After being young for the pasttwo years, GVSU now has known

commodities entering the conferenceschedule with plenty of experience.Kara Crawford, Tori Klewicki-Mc-Nutt, Lauren Stodola, Breanna Kel-logg, and Dani Crandall have allshown flashes of improved play earlyin the season to show signs of muchimproved depth for this 2011-12squad. However, there is still onewild card that remains to be seen.Kellie Watson has seen her first play-ing time in over a year, as she wasredshirted last season. Depite startingthe season on limited minutes, Wat-son led all scorers against Wisconsin-Parkside with 16 points on Nov. 26.

Experience will be the key tosurviving the grind throughout thenext three months with some toughgames ahead in the schedule.

GVSU is in the midst of fin-ishing it’s three game road trip withone last game at Northwood, aftertwo conference games in Ohio. De-fense will be key against Northwoodas the team looks to shut down twoPreseason All-GLIAC Second Teamperformers in G Rachel Church andC Savannah Steadman. Church andSteadman accounted for almost one-third of the offensive production lastseason. The Lakers will have redemp-tion their mind heading into its firstgame against Northwood since losingto them in the GLIAC Tournamentlast season.

After the three-game roadtrip, the team will then turn the tablesand have a three-game home stand.On Dec. 10 the Lakers will hostRochester College at the GVSUFieldhouse Arena.

Grand Valley State will headinto the holiday season with toughhome games against two teams fromthe Upper Penninsula, NorthernMichigan and Michigan Tech.

Northern Michigan will cometo town on Dec. 18, led by PreseasonAll-GLIAC Second Team G HillaryBowling. Standing at 5-10, Bowlingaveraged 9.3 points last season for theWildcats.

On Dec. 19, Big Monday willbring two of the best teams in theGLIAC together for a game thatcould determine the leader in theGLIAC North Division. MichiganTech and Grand Valley State were the

only two teams in the North Divisionto have two players named preseasonfirst team all-conference. In the pre-season poll, Michigan Tech waspicked first in the North, whileGVSU was picked to finish second.Emma Veach will also be returning toAllendale for the first time sincetransferring from GVSU to MichiganTech. While every conference gamecounts, there should be some extramotivation on both benches, wherethe winner could get a step ahead inthe conference race.

The Lakers will close out thecalendar year on Dec. 29-30 whenthey swing down to the SunshineState. In Florida, they will take onFlorida Southern and Tampa. Bothgames will provide stiff competitionfor the visiting Lakers. In the Sun-shine State Conference, Tampa andFlorida Southern were picked to fin-ish second and third, respectively.

Before a long road trip to theU.P. to face Lake Superior State,GVSU will head to SVSU on Jan. 5when it returns to its first action of thenew year.

The Fieldhouse Arena willthen host the first game of the 2012,when Northwood has its return trip toAllendale on Jan. 11 for one of thefew Wednesday night games on theschedule.

Just a few days later, on Jan.14, the Hillsdale Chargers come totown with its high scoring offensewhich has averaged 76.8 points pergame during November.

A notoriously difficult roadtrip looms as the Lakers look to finishJanuary strong. They will travel toNorthern Michigan and MichiganTech for games on Jan. 19 and 21 be-fore facing rival Ferris State in BigRapids on Jan. 28.

During December and Janu-ary, the Lakers will play 10 roadgames and just five contests in thefriendly confines of the FieldhouseArena. In February, the schedule flipsa bit in the Lakers favor with five outof seven games slated to be played inAllendale. The difficult scheduleahead will test the Lakers’ mettle asthey make their way through the heartof the conference schedule and at-tempt to climb to the top.

Brittany Taylor started the season as the

Lakers leading scorer.

By: Doug Witte - executive editor

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL


MEN’S BASKETBALL

The Grand Valley State men’sbasketball team has gotten off to anexciting start for the 2011-12 season,putting on an offensive displayagainst Michigan-Dearborn whilenearly pulling a huge upset againstdefending national champion andtop-ranked Bellarmine.

On Nov. 16, the Lakers ranover Michigan-Dearborn 94-51 in theseason-opener, led by senior guardJames Thomas’ game-high 21 pointson 8-of-11 shooting and six rebounds.

GVSU then took No. 1 Bel-larmine to the bitter end before fallingto the Knights by a 70-67 score onNov. 19. It was the coming out partyfor junior Josh Anderson who hitthree trifectas, all within a 55-secondstretch at the end of the first half, whotied a team-high with 14 points in thegame.

Thomas has been as excitingas usual, leading the Lakers in scor-

ing through the early part of the sea-son. Combined with the emergence ofAnderson and the stellar shooting oftrue freshmen Ryan Sabin and BenLanning, GVSU is looking like an in-triguing squad to follow for the dura-tion of the season.

The schedule for Decemberand January shapes up to be an excit-ing one for the Lakers as they look totake back control of the GLIACNorth division.

December 1 marks the begin-ning of conference play for GVSU

when they head on an Ohio roadtripto take on Ohio Dominican and Tiffin(Dec. 3) before traveling to Midland,Mich. to take on the Northwood Tim-berwolves (Dec. 7), a team that in-cludes two preseason All-GLIACSecond Team players in junior guardsAndrew Joyce and AndrewVanDierenDonck.

The Lakers will kick off athree-game homestand on December10 with a non-conference contestagainst Rochester College, a team theLakers hit 15 three-pointers againstback in 2006. With one 13-trifecta ef-fort already this season and a teamfull of shooters, the Lakers lookpoised to challenge that number acouple more times this season.

GVSU has their first homeGLIAC contest on December 18against Northern Michigan and thentake on the Huskies of Michigan Techthe next day before taking off 10 daysfor the holidays. The Huskies werethe preseason pick to win the GLIACNorth Division and feature preseasonAll-GLIAC First Team player AliHaidar. Senior forward Mike Hoj-nacki is on the preseason SecondTeam All-GLIAC squad for theHuskies as well. The Wildcats have apreseason First Team All-GLIACplayer of their own, as Jared Bensonis one of the best big men in the con-ference.

On December 29, the Lakerswill travel to Erie, Pa. to participatein the Gannon Porecco Cup, a four-team tournament that takes place overtwo days. In the opening game,GVSU will take on Seton Hill on the29th and then face either formerGLIAC member Gannon or futureGLIAC member Malone on Decem-ber 30 in either the championshipgame or consolation match-up.

After the holiday festivitieshave ended, the Lakers will be back

at it with a two-game road-trip toSaginaw Valley State (Jan. 5) andLake Superior State (Jan. 7) to getback in to the conference swing.Against Saginaw Valley State, theLakers will be facing one of the topguards in the conference in Greg Fos-ter, a First Team preseason All-GLIAC pick. GVSU will be lookingto avenge last season’s overtime lossthat it had in Sault Ste. Marie, a 69-63 decision. They’ll face a tough testin the rival Lakers as they includepreseason First Team All-GLIACguard Kyle Hunt.

On January 11 the Lakers willwelcome the Timberwolves to Allen-dale for a GLIAC battle and thenawait Hillsdale on January 14 in theironly match-up of the season with theChargers. It will be a tall test consid-ering Hillsdale returns two playerswho are part of the preseason FirstTeam All-GLIAC South squad inseniors Tyler Gerber and BradGuinane and the team was voted tofinish second in the GLIAC SouthDivision in the preseason poll.

GVSU will finish out themonth of January with a four-gameroadtrip, starting with the gruelingUpper Peninsula trip to take onNorthern Michigan (Jan. 19) andMichigan Tech (Jan. 21). The high-light game of the entire stretch will bethe match-up in Big Rapids againstFerris State on January 28. The Lak-ers and Bulldogs battled to two over-time games last season, each teamwinning one. Junior guard BrelandHogan gave GVSU a victory in thefinal game of the regular season lastyear up in Big Rapids, banking in ajumper as time expired in the extraperiod to keep the Lakers postseasonhopes alive with an 82-80 victory.The Bulldogs return preseason Sec-ond Team All-GLIAC player JerrellSanders, who suffered a season-end-ing injury last year.

The Lakers will finish up themonth with a trip to Cedarville(Ohio) to take on the NAIA foe onJanuary 31.

men’s basketball prepares for

big games during the midseason

stretch

By: Kyle Schwerin - staff writer

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The 2011-12 Grand Valley State men’s and

women’s swimming and diving teams have turned

in strong early season performances. The Laker

women are ranked fourth nationally in the College

Swim Coaches Association of America poll, while

the Laker men are ranked fifth nationally. The

GVSU women have hit eight NCAA DII “B” cuts

for the national meet, while the Laker men have hit 13 early season marks. The Laker women have four additional top 20 times nationally, while all five

relays for the both the GVSU men and women rank among the top 20 nationally.

SWIMMING & DIVING

GVSU SWIMming

and DIVING

turns in a

strong early

season

By: Tim Nott - editor in chief


Women:

100 Free - Sarah Kosmak (20/52.81)

500 Free - Carly Bush (6/5:03.08)

1000 Free - Carly Bush (1/10:15.40)

1650 Free - Carly Bush (12/17:45.02)

100 Back - Kelsey Vermeer (16/59.18); Olivia Schultz (20/59.41)

100 Breast - Lauren Dorsey (19/1:07.37)

200 Breast - Lauren Dorsey (8/2:21.20); Toni Musto (10/2:21.88)

100 Fly - Carly Bush (20/58.82)

200 Fly - Caitlyn Madsen (8/2:07.37); Carly Bush (12/2:07.92)

200 Free Relay - 1:39.79 (Alexia Fregonara, Emily Eaton, Sarah Roeser, Sarah Kosmak)

400 Free Relay - 3:36.50 (Olivia Schultz, Lauren Foor, Sarah Roeser, Sarah Kosmak)

800 Free Relay - 8:02.66 (Carly Bush, Caitlyn Madsen, Sarah Roeser, Kirsten Emerson)

200 Medley Relay - 1:49.33 (Kelsey Vermeer, Lauren Dorsey, Caitlyn Madsen, Sarah Roeser)

400 Medley Relay - 3:57.32 (Kelsey Vermeer, Lauren Dorsey, Caitlyn Madsen, Sarah Kosmak)

Diving - Rachel Strom, Karen Verbrugge, Jennifer Root, Jasmine Ramahi

Men:

50 Free - Milan Medo (10/20.90)

100 Free - Milan Medo (14/46.10)

200 Free - Aaron Beebe (13/1:41.89)

500 Free - David Hayhow (19/4:40.15); Aaron Beebe (20/4:41.10)

1000 Free - David Hayhow (4/9:35.70); Aaron Beebe (5/9:42.48)

100 Back - Raphael Santos (3/49.91)

200 Back - Raphael Santos (6/1:50.92); Sven Kardol (13/1:53.10)

200 Fly - Aaron Beebe (5/1:51.34)

200 IM - Milan Medo (6/1:53.82)

400 IM - Aaron Beebe (8/4:05.58)

200 Free Relay - 1:26.17 (Michael Griffith, Aaron Beebe, Raphael Santos, Milan Medo)

400 Free Relay - 3:11.20 (Kyle Gunderson, Derek Mead, David Hayhow, Joe Sayre)

800 Free Relay - 7:04.77 (Milan Medo, David Hayhow, Kyle Gunderson, Aaron Beebe)

200 Medley Relay - 1:34.30 (Raphael Santos, Erik Aakesson, Aaron Beebe, Milan Medo)

400 Medley Relay - 3:23.44 (Raphael Santos, Aaron Marken, Aaron Beebe, Milan Medo)

Diving - Paul Swedenborg, Kyle Gebraad

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Bush Why did you choose tobecome a Laker?

Who has had the biggestimpact on your sports

career?

What has been your mostmemorable moment so

far at GVSU?

If you could play anothersport at GVSU, what

would it be?

What are you planning ondoing in 5 years?

Which teams will makethe Super Bowl?

FAVORITES

Food:

Class:

Movie:

Sports Team:

My dad and brother

Running against mytwin at GLIAC’s

Swimming, if I couldswim

Managing various engineering projectsin industry.

I just knew this waswhere I was

supposed to go

My parents, coaches,and best friends

Great education andgreat sports

Camping with the girlsswim and dive team

Volleyball

Coaching, businessand experiencing new

things

Okra w/ butter beans

Mechanics and Materials

Friday

Steelers

Lions, haha Steelers and 49ers

PLAYER PROFILES


Anything Mexican

Current Topics in Coaching

Forrest Gump

Red Wings

Cameron Diaz

Starbucks, downtown campus

Ryan Reynolds Vin Diesel

Going to Florida forbasketball games

Plans for winterbreak?

Favorite Christmascarol?

Where is your favoriteplace on GVSU’s Campus?

The best thing todo in the snow is ...

In a movie about your life,who would play you?

Kara Crawford

Women’s BasketballWinamac, Ind.Dec

/Jan

Sledding with my niecesand nephews

The Fieldhouse Arena and Fresh Food

Playing with my littlebrother

A lot of time with

friends and family and

a tournament in

Gannon, Pa.

Throw snow balls

12 Days of ChristmasO’ Holy NightI saw Mommykissing Santa

Claus

Make snow angels

Josh Groban, O’ Holy Night

Diane Keaton

The athletic and recreation facilites, of courseThe gym

Going home to enjoy theholiday with my family

Relax and visit with family

Ron Merrihew

Men’s BasketballByron Center, Mich.

Nick Waddell

Men’s BasketballChicago, Ill.

Dorothy Vice

Ath. Rec. and FacilitiesMarne, Mich.


THEGRID

SANDRA’S SNAPSHOT

Celebrate the Sweetness of the Season!Sandra Jennings is an Administrative Assistant in the athletic department.

This photo was taken at her home.


Home OpenerJasmine Padin (4) finishes the fast breakwith a lay-up in the Lakers’ home opening

win on Nov. 22 against Aquinas.

Photo courtesy Doug Witte

Documents

Winter GVSports Monthly Magazine