Just about every year we have a couple of our Cross Country Program graduates in the top ten academically. This year we had two, Andrew Bissonette and Nick Preston. It is no accident. Studies show that cross country athletes do better than the average student academically, likely because they are hard working […]

Posted on July 20th, 2006 by site admin
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Monica Kinney received academic all state honors in Track and Field. To qualify she needed to exceed a 3.5 GPA (no problem there) and place in the top eight in an event at the MHSAA State Meet (no problem there either). Based on those qualifications, she was one of just 68 female division […]

Posted on July 19th, 2006 by site admin
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Quite a number of people we know did the 2006 Grand Haven Beach Vault last Friday and Saturday. Several got P.R. heights and most jumped well.
Here are the results I noticed:
Selgo Danny 13 Grand Rapids MI 7.60 6 NEW P.R.
Morrissey Kelly 13 Grand Rapids MI 9.00 3 NEW P.R.
Thimmesch Nick 16 Grand Rapids MI 11.6 9
Pindar Alyssa 15 Grand Rapids MI 9.00 5
Kirchoff Steve 17 Grand Rapids MI 11.00 9
Ostrowski Abby 17 Grand Rapids MI 10.00 10
Pindar Stephanie 17 Grand Rapids MI 9.60 12
The jumpers now get to concentrate on other sports for a few months.

Posted on July 17th, 2006 by site admin
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