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Coach Whitman

Assistant Coach Joseph Whitman 

Joseph Whitman has joined the Alma College Cross Country and Track and Field coaching staffs for the 2007-08 seasons. He is two years removed from an outstanding career as a runner for the Scots.

Since graduating from Alma College with a Bachelor of Arts in Exercise and Health Science in April of 2005, Coach Whitman has spent time as a MHSAA official, a Physical Education Teacher at Fulton Middleton Elementary School, and as a Middle School Girls Track Coach at Fulton Middleton.

While a runner at Alma College, Whitman received first and second team All-MIAA honors, was named the Team MVP of Alma College Track in 2004 and Cross Country four times (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005).  Whitman also served as Captain on five different teams while representing the Scots. Whitman also served as a Resident Assistant for two years and holds a Level 1 USATF Coaching Certification

Coach Whitman brings Alma College experience and a history of success in the program that will allow him to not only help the student-athletes excel in competition, but also in every aspect of the Alma College experience.

 

 

Alma College's partnership with the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, an EPA-sanctioned Community Advisory Group (CAG), received the 2008 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration, sponsored by Michigan Campus Compact. The Task Force is recognized as one of the most influential and active CAGs nationally and as having the largest membership of any CAG in the United States.

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Judd Folske

Judd Folske

Judd Folske is entering his first year as Alma College Head Baseball Coach in the 2007-2008 season after spending two years as an assistant coach with the program. Coach Folske joined the Maroon and Cream in the fall of 2005 after stops at NCAA Division I Central Michigan University, and stints at Div. II schools Saginaw Valley State University and Ferris State University. He also serves the athletic department as assistant athletic director.

While head coach of the CMU Chippewas, Folske posted a 131-98 mark. In 2000, he finished in a tie for first in the MAC conference with a record of 41-17 (18-8). Folske retired after the 2003 season at CMU, and went to work as an assistant at SVSU, where he worked in that capacity for two seasons.

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