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ALMA WOMEN'S GOLF FINISHES 5TH

The Alma Women's Golf team traveled to Adrian College Tuesday for a league Jamboree and came home with a fifth place finish and a team score of 371. Olivet won the competition with a score of 337.

Sarah Caverley and Beth Hubbard paced the Scots with a score of 92, good for a tie for 19th, and Jessica Kennard finished with a 93. Nicole Bursach had a score of 94 and Kirsten McNally finished with a round of 104 for Alma, who now look to the MIAA Championships at Battle Creek, MI on October 10.

 

The Alma College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team claimed its ninth consecutive regional championship at the SIFE USA Regional Competition in March 2009. The competition awards the SIFE teams that are most effective in teaching the principals of market economics through outreach projects in their communities.

 

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.