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MIAA announces their Cross Country All-League teams

2009 All-MIAA Men's Cross Country Team

Most Valuable Runner
Nick Kramer, Calvin
(sophomore from Dyer, Ind./Illiana Christian HS)

All-MIAA First Team
Nick Kramer, Calvin** (sophomore from Dyer, Ind./Illiana Christian HS)
Aaron Goodman, Calvin* (senior, Milwaukee, Wis/Milwaukee Lutheran HS)
Dan Kerr, Calvin* (sophomore from Petoskey/Petoskey HS)
Kyle Mast, Calvin* (senior from Zeeland/Holland Christian HS)
Alex Wrobel, Calvin* (junior from Arden Hill, Minn./Mounds View HS)
George Visser, Calvin** (senior from Winfield, Ill./West Chicago HS)
Matt Vander Roest, Calvin* (freshman from Ann Arbor/Huron HS)
Matt Wiersum, Hope* (senior from Minnetonka, Minn./Minnetonka HS)



All-MIAA Second Team
Garrett Lacy, Alma (freshman from Carson City/Carson City-Crystal HS)
Deion Pruitt, Albion (freshman from Ann Arbor/Huron HS)
Ben Alger, Albion (junior from Grass Lake/Grass Lake HS)
Jay Yockey, Adrian (senior from Riga/Blissfield HS)
Mike Bremmer, Alma (junior from Corunna/Corunna HS)
Nate Love, Hope (sophomore from Midland/Midland HS)
Matt Melvin, Albion (freshman from Bangor/Bangor HS)
Brian Hernandez, Hope (sophomore from Saline/Saline HS)

2009 All-MIAA Women's Cross Country Team

Most Valuable Runner
Jess Koster, Calvin
(senior from Grand Rapids/GR Christian HS)

All-MIAA First Team
Jess Koster, Calvin*** (senior from Grand Rapids/GR Christian HS)
Jesi Hale, Calvin*** (senior from Rehoboth, N.M./Gallup HS)
Gretchen Braymer, Calvin* (junior from Erie, Pa/Collegiate Academy)
Liz Smit, Calvin*** (senior from Kirkland, Wash./Bellevue Christian HS)
Jodi Hoekstra, Calvin* (junior from Homer Glen, Ill./Chicago Christian HS)
Rebecca Hiemstra, Calvin* (sophomore from Dusseldorf, Germany/International School)
Jillian McLaughlin, Kalamazoo*** (senior from Grosse Pointe/South HS)
Emily Fischer, Hope* (junior from Naperville, Ill./Naperville Central HS)

All-MIAA Second Team
Allison Tuuk, Calvin (junior from Grand Rapids/GR Christian HS)
Taylor Mattarella, Hope (freshman from Traverse City/Traverse City Central HS)
Kelly Luftkin, Hope (sophomore from Houghton/Houghton HS)
Karly Sikma, Hope (freshman from Grand Rapids/NorthPointe Christian HS)
Kellee Lemcke, Alma (junior from Macomb/Sterling Heights Stevenson HS)
Logan Hamel, Adrian (freshman from Toledo, Ohio/Whitmer HS)
Alicia Fowler, Adrian (freshman from China/St. Clair HS)
Susan Savasky, Hope (sophomore from Berkley/Birmingham Marian HS)

 

 

Posted: Sat, October 31st, 2009 at 9:44PM

 

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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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