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TRACK & FIELD: Kyle Percival Qualifies for Nationals

April 7, 2008

Last year it took, Alma College standout, Kyle Percival (Lansing/Waverly) until the MIAA Championships to qualify for Nationals where he ended up finishing in 8th place. This year, he decided to make the season a little less stressful, qualifying before even competing at a conference meet with a time of 10.5 seconds at the Ferris State University Invitational.

Despite running into the wind, Percival was able to beat the qualifying time by five hundredths of a second on his way to winning the race by nearly two tenths of a second.

With NCAA D3 qualifying behind him, Percival will focus his attention on bringing home the MIAA championship, the first half of which will be held in the form of a True Team Scored Jamboree hosted by Alma College on April 12th.  

 

Posted: Mon, April 7th, 2008 at 4:39PM

 

Alma College’s partnership with the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, an EPA-sanctioned Community Advisory Group (CAG), was selected as a finalist for Michigan’s 2007 Carter Partnership Award. 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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Coach Profile

Gordon Aldrich

Gordon Aldrich was a late addition to the Alma College Coaching Staff in the summer of 2007. Coach Aldrich has joined the Alma College Family as the Cross Country and Track and Field Head Coach.

During his 26 years as a varsity Boy’s and Girl’s Cross Country Coach, Aldrich has won a Girls Open State Championship (1978), a Girls State Championship (1995), two Boy’s State Championships (1994, 1997), and was Runner-up on seven other occasions. During the same time, Aldrich coached teams to 17 conference championships, was nominated for the Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association Coach of the Year 12 times for cross country, and walked away with the award four times (1994, 1995, 1996, and 1998). He was also named the Boy’s Cross Country National Coach of the Year in 1999 by the National Federation Interscholastic Coaches Association.

Aldrich was also honored with Michigan High School Coaches Association Track Coach of the Year in 1985 and 1998, and has received the Charles Sweeney Michigan Coaches Hall of Fame Track and Field Award.

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