Ferris State University has named Matt Kellogg the fourth head coach of the women’s soc­cer team in the pro­grams’ 11-year history.

Kellogg comes from Morehead State University (Kent.), where he was in his sec­ond sea­son with the team as an assis­tant coach. Kellogg replaces Neathan Gibson, who resigned in April. Kellogg made his pres­ence known early at Morehead State by train­ing the goal­keep­ers, who com­bined for five shutouts, a 1.42 goals-against aver­age and a .713 save per­cent­age in 19 matches under Kellogg’s guid­ance. Morehead grabbed the first ever Ohio Valley Conference regular-season cham­pi­onship in pro­gram his­tory with a 5−0−3 con­fer­ence record dur­ing the 2009 sea­son. (more…)

The men’s and women’s cross coun­try teams have sev­eral new faces and return­ing play­ers for the 2010–2011 season.

During the 2009–2010 sea­son, the women’s team posted an 11th-place fin­ish in the NCAA Division II National Championships and fin­ished 3rd in the Division II Midwest Regional. The team locked up a 2nd-place fin­ish in the GLIAC Championships, with Grand Valley State tak­ing the title. The Bulldog women’s team will look to con­tinue this suc­cess as it begins prepar­ing for com­pe­ti­tion. (more…)

This sum­mer I ran into a prob­lem that many peo­ple have been strug­gling with more and more.

Employers aren’t accept­ing peo­ple off the street like many appli­cants hope. Employers requir­ing expe­ri­ence for jobs expect the can­di­date to have expe­ri­ence for the job before being hired. It’s a Catch-22; with­out expe­ri­ence you can’t get a job, and you can’t get expe­ri­ence with­out a job. So how does a per­son get expe­ri­ence for a job if the employ­ers will not hire any­one in the first place? (more…)

Eric Lilleboe and Garrett Simons qual­i­fied for the 110th annual U.S. Amateur Championship at Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash.

After an award-winning career at Ferris State, Lilleboe has con­tin­ued his suc­cess on the course as he achieved co-medalist lau­rels at the U.S. Amateur Qualifier held July 22 in Harbor Springs. (more…)

The Ferris women’s vol­ley­ball pro­gram recorded its 12th con­sec­u­tive win­ning sea­son dur­ing the 2009 sea­son with an over­all record of 19–12 and will look to build off the suc­cess in 2010.

The Bulldogs also made their 12th con­sec­u­tive Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament (GLIAC) appear­ance and 15th NCAA Division II tour­na­ment show­ing dur­ing the 2009 sea­son. Ferris is 7–15 over­all in NCAA Division II tour­na­ment play. The Bulldogs claimed the pro­grams ninth GLIAC Championship in 2004 by win­ning the leagues post­sea­son tour­na­ment. The team will have eight return­ing upper­class­men, seven under­class­men, and two incom­ing recruits for the 2010 sea­son. (more…)

With 405 career vic­to­ries, head coach Keri Becker holds the honor of being the win­ningest coach in Ferris State soft­ball history.

Becker is ranked 45th in vic­to­ries among the NCAA Division II active soft­ball coaches. Under her direc­tion, the Bulldogs have aver­aged 31 wins per sea­son and earned an over­all con­fer­ence title in 2000. The Bulldogs also have won three Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tour­na­ments and three NCAA Division II Great Lakes Region Championship titles in 1998, 1999, and 2005. (more…)

Softball head coach Keri Becker recorded her 400th career vic­tory on Saturday in a 4–1 vic­tory over Tiffin University.

The Bulldogs won four of six games over the week­end and have won nine of their last 12 games over­all. Ferris improved to 20–13 over­all this sea­son and 11–6 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Bulldogs improved to fourth in the con­fer­ence stand­ings. (more…)

Softball head coach Keri Becker recorded her 400th career vic­tory on Saturday in a 4–1 vic­tory over Tiffin.

The Bulldogs grabbed split two dou­ble­head­ers as they came out with a 2–2 record for the weekend.

 After split­ting the week­end with Ashland and Tiffin, Ferris improved to 18–13 over­all this sea­son and 9–6 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Bulldogs improved to fifth in the con­fer­ence standings.

On Saturday, Ferris lost 4–3 to Tiffin in the first game and won the sec­ond game of the dou­ble­header 4–1. Becker, in her 13th sea­son with the bull­dogs, is the all-time win­ningest coach in FSU soft­ball his­tory. (more…)

The Ferris men’s ten­nis team lost its 21st con­sec­u­tive match to con­fer­ence foe Northwood on April 8.

Ferris started the match with inten­sity, win­ning two of three matches in dou­bles play. The Bulldogs could not hold on dur­ing sin­gles play, win­ning only one of six match-ups. Northwood’s tri­umphant sin­gles play led to the 6–3 vic­tory. (more…)

The Ferris men’s ten­nis team lost its 21st con­sec­u­tive match to con­fer­ence foe Northwood on April 8.

Ferris started the match with inten­sity, win­ning two of three matches in dou­bles play. The Bulldogs could not hold on dur­ing sin­gles play, win­ning one of six match-ups. Northwood’s tri­umphant sin­gles play led to the 6–3 victory.

The Ferris tan­dem of senior cap­tain Kyle Revall and junior Steven Roberts upset the Timberwolves No. 22 nationally-ranked pair­ing of Peter Kazianschuetz and Frederic Schoelzel, 8–6 in dou­bles play. Ferris’ Ahmet Demir and Arin Enge also grabbed an 8–2 dou­bles vic­tory. (more…)