Month: March 2014

For a sports fan, it doesn’t get much better than enjoying America’s pastime — and getting paid to do so. Hillsdale junior Matt Melchior is about to spend a whole summer doing exactly that. Melchior has been named the broadcasting director for the High Desert Mavericks, the Seattle Mariners’ Class A advanced affiliate, located in...

Four generations of women in senior Caitlin Kopmeyer’s family will have attended Hillsdale College by next fall. Three of them will have played Charger volleyball, all specializing in the front row. Caitlin’s mother, Patty, played right-side hitter when she was a student at Hillsdale, and Caitlin’s younger sister Jessie will play left-side hitter, Caitlin’s position,...

The baseball team played six games in the last week. They won three and lost three. After losing to Grand Valley State University (6-0) on March 20, the Chargers (3-3) swept Walsh University (1-3) over the weekend. The team then dropped two more games to GVSU on March 26. Grand Valley, currently 18th in national...

Heather Lantis is a junior thrower on the track team, a history major, and the vice president of Student Federation. When did you start focusing on track? My junior year in high school. I got hurt playing basketball and needed to rehab to get back and all that hard work instilled my love for track....

Junior Megan Fogt was named First Team All-American by both the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association and Daktronics. She was one of only 10 women in NCAA Division II to receive this honor given by the WBCA, and the only player in the GLIAC. She is one of five women in Division II to be on...