Recognized for their excellence on the playing field last season, MSU football linebacker Greg Jones and field hockey midfielder Floor Rijpma were named the George Alderton Male and Female Athletes of the Year, MSU announced Monday. The award is given to the top male and female Spartan athlete at the end of each year.
Voting has begun for the design of the 2010 MSU football student section T-shirt. For the fourth year in a row, fans can vote for different designs on the front and back of the T-shirt that comes with the purchase of student season tickets.
Head coach Jake Boss Jr. and the MSU baseball team are offering three camps this summer at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field. Registration for all camps can be completed at sportcamps.msu.edu.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio presented the senior linebacker Greg Jones with a plaque to be put on the wall of Skandalaris Football Center for being named a first-team All-American last season, when Jones recorded a Big Ten leading 154 tackles and nine sacks on his way to earning All-American honors.
Three future MSU football players participated in the 30th annual Michigan High School All-Star Football Game at Spartan Stadium, which featured 88 of the best senior players in the state.
The fifth annual Spartan Football Fantasy Camp was held Tuesday and Wednesday and allowed 15 adult men to live out their dream of being coached by MSU football coaches and playing at Spartan Stadium
Last Friday, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany announced Nebraska as the 12th member of the conference, and since then, he and other conference officials have talked a lot about how well Nebraska fits the Big Ten profile. Here is a look at how Nebraska fits in the Big Ten athletically in five of the most prominent college sports.
Jake Chelios, brother of MSU sophomore forward Dean Chelios, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the MSU hockey team next fall. After one season in the United States Hockey League, during which he scored 12 goals and had 22 assists in 52 games, Jake Chelios decided to join three other MSU recruits in signing letters of intent for next fall.
A standout soccer player in high school, psychology and kinesiology senior Alexandria Jamison said she could have played college soccer somewhere else, but decided to come to MSU instead. Within her first year on campus, she was introduced to rugby, the game she now loves, at a women’s rugby football club practice that she almost didn’t attend.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant, a former high school basketball honorable mention All-American, was inducted into the Traverse City Central High School Hall of Fame on Friday.
Deciding to forgo his senior season for the MSU baseball team, shortstop Jonathan Roof signed a contract Saturday with the Texas Rangers.
Starting Tuesday, the Spartan Ticket Office will begin accepting new football season-ticket applications from the general public.
Book-ended by two All-American performances, the MSU track and field team had a successful three days of competition at the 2010 NCAA Track and Field Championships last Wednesday through Friday in Eugene, Ore.
Thw World Cup is here. Who will win? Will England live up the the hype? Is Italy too old? Do the Brazilians have enough? How far can the United States go? Check out our group-by-group breakdown and find out who will be the champion in South Africa after the final match.
For the second consecutive year, six Spartans qualified for nationals by placing in the top 12 in their respective events at regionals. Senior triple jumper Kyron Foster, junior distance runner Emily MacLeod, freshman hurdler Keenan Michael, sophomore distance runner Josh McAlary and freshman thrower Beth Rohl will join sophomore high jumper Becca Buchholtz on the trip to Eugene, Ore., for the NCAA Championships
Although it is one of the most recognizable student sections in college basketball, the Izzone typically went unnoticed on TV during Spartan basketball games. Instead of getting a glimpse of some of the 1,500 screaming students bouncing up and down, anyone watching the game more likely was going to see a section of alumni, family and recruits. Starting next season, though, the perspective will be slightly different for TV viewers, as the lower section of the Izzone along the sidelines will be moved to the other side, putting it front and center on TV.
Most 3-year-old girls tend to have pretty typical goals for their future. Some want to be ballerinas, others want to be movie stars and some dream of being a princess. Laura Kueny, who just finished her college career as the most prolific women’s golfer in MSU history, had a bit of a different plan for herself at a very young age.
Former MSU athletes tend to pop up in unflattering news stories all too often. However, as two former Spartans — Shannon Brown of the Los Angeles Lakers and Duncan Keith of the Chicago Blackhawks — are competing for championships at the highest level of their respective sports, now is the perfect time to focus on MSU’s former stars who now are winners on the court, field or ice and off of them.
In 1997, the NCAA held its first-ever Women’s Rowing Championship. The very next year, MSU made women’s rowing a varsity sport.
Six Spartans qualified for the NCAA Championships throughout this past weekend, marking the second consecutive year MSU has sent six athletes to the biggest stage of college track and field.