Assistant Coach Grant Woodman

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Assistant Coach Grant Woodman

Grant Woodman '96 joins the Alma College Cross Country coaching staff for the 2007 season.

Woodman transferred to Alma College in 1993 after spending one year at SVSU. Woodman graduated from Alma with a B.A. in history in 1996 before going on to the university of Clemson where he earned his M. Ed in Counseling and Guidance Services in 1998.

As an athlete for the Scots, Woodman was a three time letter winner in both Cross Country and Track and was also the captain of the 1995 Alma College Cross Country Team.

Woodman has spent time coaching at camps including the Paavo West Camp in 2001 and the Paavo North Camp in 1993-1994. He holds a level 1 USATF Coaching Certification.

Grant also serves as the Director Campus Life at Alma College. He is married to Jennifer Arnold-Woodman '97 and has a son Nolan.

Coach Woodman's consecutive days run as of 8/23/07 was 3528.

Alma's "green" residence hall, Wright Hall, was completed in January 2005. The modern, 60-bed apartment-style hall features a number of environmentally friendly features, including geothermal heating and cooling, recycled-content ceiling tiles and carpeting, energy-efficient windows, rooftop solar heating panels, energy-efficient showers and washing machines, and a computerized energy monitoring system....

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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.