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…)

Seniors Morgan Kramerich and Dana Bowler have grown up together and are now shar­ing the spot­light for a suc­cess­ful Ferris soft­ball team.

Hailing from Lockport High School, Ill., Kramerich and Bowler’s rela­tion­ship goes back 13 years to a third grade cheer­lead­ing try­out where both would end up mak­ing the squad.

“She was my flyer and I was her base,” Bowler said. “There was a lot of trav­el­ing to games and com­pe­ti­tions in cheer­lead­ing, and that’s when we became good friends.” (more…)

The future looks bright after the annual Crimson and Gold Spring Football Game, as both sides of the ball were suc­cess­fully showcased.

The Bulldogs hit Top Taggart Field on April 20 for the first time this year, as the Red and White Teams faced off in a scrim­mage style tune-up game. Even though the out­come was lop­sided, with the White Team shut­ting down the Red Team 50–14, both offense and defense showed improve­ment and poten­tial for the upcom­ing season.

“It was nice to get back into the swing of things,” Ferris junior defen­sive end Carlton Johnson said. “I felt that it was very pro­duc­tive over­all, and on defense, we did make a cou­ple of mis­takes, but still not bad over­all.” (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…)

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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Off to the Outback

Senior cen­ter Travis Oullette is not tak­ing his tal­ents to south beach. Instead, he is join­ing his brother (Brit) on the Adelaide Adrenaline over­seas in Australia. Oullette is plan­ning on stay­ing in the land down under over the sum­mer to play with his brother before join­ing an ama­teur league team in the fall. Ouellette scored 11 goals and recorded 15 assists this past sea­son, and his 26 points were good enough for sec­ond on the Bulldogs. Ouellette and his brother have played together through most of Travis’ life. (more…)

Jordan Morgan
Defensive End
#14

Q: First off, how did you first get involved with foot­ball?
A: I remem­ber grow­ing up and play­ing catch in the back­yard with my dad and brother all the time, and then fifth grade came around and my school offered foot­ball, so my brother and I jumped at the chance.

Q: At what point did you know you wanted to play foot­ball pro­fes­sion­ally?
A: I think it’s a dream of any kid grow­ing up. It was a dream for a while, but it became a goal once I got a chance to play col­lege foot­ball. (more…)

Kyle Bonis
“I want to be play­ing hockey at the high­est level I can. The game has been an absolute bless­ing for me, and I have enjoyed every­thing about it. I just want to keep get­ting bet­ter and be happy in life—that is the ulti­mate goal.”
Stat: Improved his goal total by 12 to lead the team with 19 this season

Daniel Sutherlin
“Overseas liv­ing out my dream to play pro­fes­sional bas­ket­ball, or work­ing at a CPA firm.”
Stat: Played the last minute of his col­le­giate career on a bro­ken ankle

Kylie Muntz
“In five years I see myself work­ing as a reg­is­tered nurse prob­a­bly back in Ohio with my fam­ily, hope­fully start­ing a fam­ily of my own.”
Stats: Muntz was in the top three in 11 sta­tis­ti­cal cat­e­gories for the Bulldogs this sea­son (more…)

Nichole Boehnke

Guest Reporter

Four days a week the foot­ball team wakes up at 6:30 a.m. for a tough work­out before begin­ning the daily grind of classes and homework.

Spring sea­son for the Ferris State University foot­ball team was expected to be hard. Something is dif­fer­ent this year, though. They were lucky enough to get a large dona­tion of ele­va­tion masks for play­ers to use dur­ing their win­ter con­di­tion­ing workouts.

The masks indi­vid­u­ally cost around $80. The ele­va­tion masks have been tested and proved to increase lung sta­mina, result­ing in more con­trolled breath­ing. (more…)