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…)

After a 16-year absence from his home state, Chris Boden is hav­ing a home­com­ing as he has joined the Bulldog foot­ball staff.

After grad­u­at­ing from Saginaw Valley State in 1990, Boden began his coach­ing career as a grad­u­ate assis­tant with Central Michigan. In 1994, after he received his mas­ters degree, he left the con­fines of the Great-Lake state in order to pur­sue his coach­ing career. In those 16 years, Boden has held coach­ing posi­tions in Ohio, Georgia, Texas, and South Dakota, where he was the head coach of Northern State for five years. (more…)

Not many for­mer col­lege foot­ball play­ers can list film actor on their resumes, but for­mer Bulldog foot­ball star Jake Visser will get his chance to appear on the big screen after secur­ing a role in the upcom­ing film, “Touchback”.

Visser, a for­mer defen­sive tackle who was named the 2008–2009 National Scholar Athlete of the Year by the Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association (CCA) after his senior cam­paign, was among 1,200 foot­ball play­ers across the coun­try that audi­tioned to be extras in the film, which stars actor Kurt Russell and for­mer Oscar nom­i­nee Christine Lahti. (more…)

Two mem­bers of the 2009–2010 Ferris State men’s golf team will com­pete in the 2010 U.S. Amateur Championship in University Place, Wash.

Former Bulldog golfer Eric Lilleboe and Ferris senior Garrett Simons will com­pete in the 110th annual U.S. Amateur Championship begin­ning Aug. 23.

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With the ath­letic direc­tor posi­tion vacant after for­mer AD Tom Kirinovic fin­ished his 27-year run in June, Ferris has nar­rowed its search to three final­ists to fill the vacant position.

Ferris Vice President for Administration and Finance Jerry Scoby announced on Aug. 10 that after screen­ing more than 75 appli­cants across the coun­try, the search has been dwin­dled down to three final­ists with var­i­ous back­grounds in ath­letic depart­ment employ­ment. (more…)

With sum­mer in full swing, the Ferris State foot­ball pro­gram is look­ing to find some hid­den tal­ent in the high school ranks dur­ing the 2010 sum­mer camp program.

The sum­mer camp pro­gram, which con­sists of three main events dur­ing July, will give high school ath­letes from around the state the oppor­tu­nity to prac­tice under the guid­ance of the Bulldog coach­ing staff. (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…)

As some Ferris State stu­dents use their sum­mer vaca­tion to relax on the beach, many stu­dents have made a trip to Detroit to watch America’s pas­time, which is a sum­mer tradition.

While activ­i­ties such as going to con­certs and camp­ing out are sta­ples of a col­lege student’s sum­mer, more and more Ferris stu­dents have made going to a Detroit Tigers game an annual sum­mer tra­di­tion. (more…)

The Ferris State foot­ball team will be look­ing to get back to their win­ning ways this upcom­ing fall as they kick off the sea­son on Sept. 3.

The Bulldogs broke their streak of three con­sec­u­tive years with a win­ning sea­son as they fin­ished the 2009 cam­paign with an abysmal 1–10 record. Their only win was against win­less Tiffin University. It was the team’s sec­ond los­ing sea­son in the past nine years. Head Coach Jeff Pierce will be return­ing to the pro­gram for his 16th sea­son as a Bulldog. The Bulldogs have recorded nine win­ning sea­sons out of the 15 years that Pierce has spent at the helm. (more…)

Ferris State Athletics Director Tom Kirinovic announced his retire­ment at a press con­fer­ence on June 2 after more than 10 years in the position.

Kirinovic, a Ferris grad­u­ate, has been the Athletics Director since November 1999 and served in the Ferris ath­let­ics depart­ment for 27 years. The retire­ment will be offi­cial as of June 30 and the uni­ver­sity will con­duct a nation­wide search to find a suc­ces­sor. (more…)