As far back as 1995 for­mer Ferris State men’s head bas­ket­ball coach Bill Sall’s fin­ger­prints were all over the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Sall was a top assis­tant for the Bulldogs, even serv­ing as Interim Head Coach dur­ing the 1995–96 cam­paign at one point. Yet the Athletic Department was not ready to make him top dog in 1998, caus­ing Sall to leave for Hillsdale. (more…)

It ended with a thud. After advanc­ing to its sec­ond GLIAC Championship, the Ferris State men’s ten­nis team couldn’t hang on for back-to-back con­fer­ence championships.

A 5–2 loss at the hands of rival Northwood effec­tively ended their bid to repeat.

“The match came down to a cou­ple of points,” Ferris senior Razvan Mag said. “If we could’ve con­verted those match points, the out­come would have been very much in our favor.” (more…)

There is a kid who showed up to Ferris State, blind as to what his edu­ca­tional tal­ents were at the begin­ning of the 2012 fall semester.

All he knew is that he loved to write, yet he didn’t know what he was capa­ble of, espe­cially with his high school test­ing scores and grade point average.

The kid took a job at the cam­pus news­pa­per as a sports reporter, hop­ing maybe this was the out­let that would show him suc­cess. (more…)

You could say it was wild—our year in sports, that is. A more accu­rate syn­op­sis would be car­diac at times.

The Ferris State Bulldogs pro­vided more than their fair share of moments that required the set­ting of pace­mak­ers in order to keep us sane, but the pre­dom­i­nant feel­ing amongst teams was “Next year will be great.”

Football inked a ridicu­lous recruit­ing class, and head coach Tony Annese has turned the team into an offen­sive rush­ing pow­er­house. The team fin­ished 7–4, win­ning its final game on a last-second touch­down, just where Annese likes it. (more…)

Razvan Mag

Senior

Ferris Tennis
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With a win over Grand Valley State on April 12, Ferris State men’s ten­nis clinched a berth in the GLIAC tour­na­ment at 13–4 (9−2).

The team’s final road trip was to Lewis (Ill.) on April 14, where it dropped its first four matches and pro­ceeded to win five straight to take the set for their 13th win of the season.

Ferris senior Tyler Marengo noted that the team is strong from top to bot­tom. (more…)

Amy Dunleavy
Junior
Ferris Softball
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Two of the hot­ter offen­sive teams in the GLIAC faced off in back-to-back pitch­ing duels Sunday in Allendale.

Unfortunately, Ferris State was unable to gain any trac­tion against Grand Valley State’s pitch­ers, as they were swept by the Lakers April 7.

The Bulldogs were at least able to get on the score­board in game one, scor­ing late but falling 4–2 despite senior pitcher Dana Bowler’s com­plete game effort. (more…)

For some­one who pro­fessed to be “strug­gling” at the plate, junior Amy Dunleavy seemed to find her rhythm awfully fast on April 3.

Dunleavy’s ram­page at the plate for the Ferris State soft­ball team began in the first of the two-game set, blast­ing her third home run of the year in route to an 11–0 win.

“I had been strug­gling with my hit­ting and over think­ing,” Dunleavy said. “So today I was just think­ing ‘head down, and relax.’” (more…)

Harry Vardon, the golf­ing pride of the United Kingdom in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was a man of pro­found words. His poetic wis­dom lives on in few men in sports today.

One of those men graced the world of col­lege bas­ket­ball dur­ing the 1980s, an Italian man by the name of Jim Valvano. Valvano coached the North Carolina State Wolfpack to a national title in the 1983 sea­son. (more…)