Category: Sports

The Arizona Cardinals signed Hillsdale alumnus, Jared Veldheer ’10, to a five-year, $35 million contract on March 11. The contract guarantees him $17 million and includes a $6.25 million signing bonus. After Veldheer told the Oakland Raiders that he wouldn’t be returning to the team in 2014, the Cardinals put him at the top of...

Hillsdale College senior basketball players Tim Dezelski and Brandon Pritzl had career years for the Chargers. Both were officially recognized as some of the GLIAC’s best earlier this month, as Dezelski was awarded First Team All-GLIAC and Pritzl was named to the GLIAC’s All-Defensive Team for the second time in his career. To say Dezelski...

Junior Rachael Kurtz joined an exclusive club of three Hillsdale swimmers when she earned the distinction of a Division II All-American swimmer at the national meet on March 12-15. The last Charger to earn such an accolade was Linda Okonkowski in 2011, and before her, Colleen Pickard in 2002. Since Kurtz arrived at Hillsdale, her...

Hillsdale College senior Brad Mitzner is one of two captains for the new Hillsdale men’s golf team. He played golf for four years at De La Salle Collegiate High School in Warren, Mich. When did you start playing golf competitively? I didn’t start playing golf until freshman year of high school when I tried out...

Sophomore Corinne Zehner, a biochemistry major, is in her second year on the track team.  In much of her freshman year, Zehner sat out due to a fracture in her foot; however, now she is back and setting school records in the 600-meter hurdles and the 4×400 relay.  What’s your favorite part about running track?...