Brehm's Career Accolades

Josh Brehm

Alma College

Quarterback

Four-year starter

Two-time Captain

MIAA 2006 Offensive Most Valuable Player

Two-time First Team All-MIAA

Selected to participate in East Coast Bowl, going 20-for-28 with 240 yards passing and a touchdown and another rushing touchdown…Voted an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American (Second Team)…Ended the season leading NCAA Division III in three categories – total offense, passing yards and passing yards per game.

- Nine consecutive 300-yard passing games (Ties NCAA DIII record; Has 21 career 300-yard passing games)
- Ten consecutive 300-yard total offense games (Set NCAA DIII record; Has 25 career 300-yard total offense games)
- Eight consecutive games without an interception (288 pass attempts without an INT set new NCAA record)
- Three games throwing five touchdown passes (two, in back-to-back games this season)
- Six games throwing at least four touchdown passes
- Sixteen games throwing at least three touchdown passes
- Ten games with over 400 yards of total offense (five this season)
- Twenty-five games with over 300 yards of total offense (10 consecutive this season)

Set new school records in 2006 in:
Passing yards (3,448)
Pass completions (305)
Touchdown passes (30)
Fewest interceptions thrown (3)
Total offense (4,084)

Set school records for career performances in:
Passing yards (10,706)
Pass completions (919)
Touchdown passes (85)
Total offense (12,247)

Led team to school records in:
Passing yards – season (3,448; breaks 10-year record)
Pass completions – season (305)
Touchdown passes – season (30)
Points scored – season (382)

In school history has:
• 3 of top 10 passing games (424 once this season)
• 3 of top 4 passing yards in a season (school record with 3,448 yards this year)
• 5 of top 10 performances for pass attempts in a game (62 a personal career best this year)
• 3 of top 5 pass attempts in a season (462 this year is third)
• 6 of top 10 pass completion games (38 this year is third)
• 3 of top 5 pass completions in a season (school record with 305 this year)
• Top 2 performances for touchdown passes in a season (school record with 30 this year)
• Only player with multiple five-touchdown games (3 in career; in back-to-back games this year)

Miscellaneous:
Most pass attempts in a game since 1996 with 62…Most pass completions in a game since 1996 with 38…Best passing average in school history (.660; breaks former record of .617 in 2002)…Highest passing yards per game average since 1996 (344.8 this year)…Has led the the three teams with the best total offense performances in school history…Set school record last season with 5,099, recorded 4,836 this year and 4,836 in 2004…Honored as MIAA Offensive Player of the Week three times this season, seven times in career (and once as special teams player of the week).

The Alma College Percussion Ensemble performed at the prestigious Centrum Jazz Festival, an international festival in Port Townsend, Wash., in July 2007. Alma was the only college group invited to perform. "It's a huge honor," says faculty director Dave Zerbe. "You can't apply to perform there; they seek you out."...

Terry Smith

Smith graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Physical Education in 1984. After graduating, Smith got his start in coaching when he was the boy’s basketball coach at Fulton High School while working as a teacher at Ithaca High School. From there he moved to Cedar Springs High School were he coached and taught and won his first district championship in 1987.

The following year, Coach Smith got his first taste of coaching in the college ranks when he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ferris State University and was part of the team that won a GLIAC Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA DII Tournament.

After a year at FSU, Coach Smith left for Lake Superior State University where he served for three years as an assistant coach before being promoted to the head coach position in 1991. In five years time, Coach Smith had turned around the LSSU program. In 1996 his team won the first League Championship for LSSU since joining the GLIAC in 1978. During this time, Coach Smith also earned his M.A. in Physical Education from Central Michigan University.