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Class Senior
Age 22
Height 6'0"
Weight 200 pounds
Majors Exercise and Health Science
Minor Chemistry
Hometown Beaverton, MI
High School Beaverton

Nathan Garvin

Men's Track and Field - Pole Vault/Jumps

Nathan Garvin
High School: Was Valedictorian....A 4.0 student....Member of National Honor Society....An All-State Athlete in Hurdles and Pole Vault. 2006-07: Played for the Scots JV Basketball Team.

Head Coach: Gordon Aldrich
Assistant Coaches: Grant Woodman, Matt Chovanec

 

Alma College students are annual high achievers in the national Model United Nations competition. Alma has received Outstanding Delegation awards in each of the last 13 years (1997 through 2009) at the world's largest and most prestigious collegiate Model UN Conference in New York City.

 

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.