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Scot Loyalty Fund for Athletics

It's About Loyalty...to the game, to the Maroon and Cream, to the leaders of tomorrow

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Continuing the Tradition

It is time to revisit the Tradition of Excellence that defines Alma College Athletics and we need your help. To give to the Scot Loyalty Fund for Athletics, visit our online giving site.

Remember football Saturdays sitting in the stands at Bahlke Field with the spire of Dunning Memorial Chapel rising proudly in the distance. While grass—and mud—might have given way to synthetic turf, Bahlke Field and the games played there remain largely unchanged. Spring baseball with students, faculty and fans cooking out and cheering down the foul lines. A home run floats over the center field fence at Scots Park as the Maroon and Cream chalk up another MIAA softball championship in the shadow of the Hogan Center where the national championship banner proudly hangs in Cappaert Gymnasium honoring the women's basketball program.

Memories like these—and the countless others you've stored away over the years—are being made as you read this.

Return to your alma mater to watch a game and cheer from the stands instead of the sidelines; support the students and coaches who have become Scots since you left campus; give back to a program that turned teammates into friends.

Today's Alma College student-athlete stares at the names of past Scots in the history and record books and the trophies still on display in Hogan in the hopes of leaving a similar mark in Maroon and Cream.

Our goal is to enhance the experience of today's Scots, to provide them with the best facilities, equipment and experience we can—and we need the gifts of yesterday to make this goal a reality. Please make your gift to the Scot Loyalty Fund today—you can do so easily online now.

Larger than the sports you played, the wins and losses or the sweat and tears, this is about loyalty and the Tradition of Excellence.

Maroon and Cream Forever,

Larry Andrus '72, Bill Klenk '59 and Charlie Gray
Scot Loyalty Fund for Athletics Tri-Chairs

 

Alma College students have the ability to design their own area of academic concentration, with the assistance of a faculty advisor, to meet specific educational or career goals. In recent years, students have graduated with Programs of Emphasis majors in such fields as arts management, archaeology and anthropology, environmental policy and community advocacy, foreign service and international law, and music technology and digital media.

 

Coach Profile

Terry Smith

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.