All Blog Posts - Hope Athletics

Cara Anderson and AJ Boucher: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: July 29, 2024 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Justice Mims and Samantha Smith: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: July 16, 2024 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Keegan DeKuiper and Annie Lockett: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: July 2, 2024 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Dylan Clem: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: June 17, 2024 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Kara VanderKamp: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: May 28, 2024 | Author: Alan Babbitt

NCAA Division III Week Spotlight: Sophia Farbarzhevich, Women’s Diving

Published: April 7, 2024 | Author: Grace Connelly '25

NCAA Division III Week Spotlight: Kyle Langdon, Men’s Swimming

Published: April 6, 2024 | Author: Grace Connelly '25

NCAA Division III Week Spotlight: Raven Jemison, Women’s Basketball

Published: April 4, 2024 | Author: Grace Connelly '25

NCAA Division III Week Spotlight: Aidan Kyle, Track and Field

Published: April 2, 2024 | Author: Grace Connelly '25

Liz VanderSlice honors her late father, Chris VanderSlice ’99, during NCAA Championships push

Published: November 28, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

SEED Mission Trips: Hope Athletics Orange and Blue Podcast

Published: October 9, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Sisters Ana and Heleyna Tucker: Hope College Athletics Podcast

Published: August 28, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

David Blahnik: Hope College Athletics Podcast

Published: July 31, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Delaney Wesolek: Hope College Athletics Podcast

Published: July 17, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Kevin Wolma: Hope College Athletics Podcast

Published: July 3, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Angelique Gaddy-McElveen: Hope College Athletics Podcast

Published: June 19, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Dan Romano: Hope College Athletics Podcast

Published: June 5, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Hope College Student-Athlete Spotlight: Seth Almquist, Men’s Golf

Published: May 15, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Hope College Student-Athlete Spotlight: Jackson Player and Helen Dodge

Published: February 23, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Hope College Student-Athlete Spotlight: Jess Estabrook, Christian Dunaitis

Published: February 15, 2023 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Hope College Student-Athlete Spotlight: Dan Romano

Published: October 20, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Hope College Student-Athlete Spotlight: Macey Mayer

Published: October 10, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Elly Douglass ’04 Jordan: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: June 23, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Nancy Kamstra, Swimming

Published: June 20, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Arinn King and Jack Radzville: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: June 10, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Grace VanDellen, Women’s Golf

Published: June 9, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Saydee Johns, Women’s Tennis

Published: May 9, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Softball’s Avery Slancik

Published: April 9, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Volleyball’s Grace Pettinger

Published: March 9, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Clayton Dykhouse, Evan Thomas: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: February 26, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Men’s Soccer Coach John Conlon: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: February 21, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Women’s Lacrosse Coach Keagan Pontious

Published: February 10, 2022 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Matt Margaron, Shomari Tate: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: From One Former AD to Another, Thank You for Your Legacy

Published: January 9, 2022 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Title IX at 50: Sisters Ana and Heleyna Tucker, Women’s Cross Country

Published: December 9, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Hope Student-Athletes Team Up to Prevent Child Hunger

Published: December 1, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Miranda DeKuiper ’11 and Jess Moorman ’21: Engineers and Women’s Basketball Alumnae

Published: November 9, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Community and Inclusion Through Sport

Published: October 20, 2021 | Author: Caroline Dykstra

Winter and Spring Student-Athletes Take Part in Leadership Development Retreat

Published: October 14, 2021 | Author: Caroline Dykstra

Title IX at 50: Women’s Soccer Coach Leigh Sears

Published: October 9, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Title IX at 50: Hope Volleyball Coach Becky Schmidt ’99

Published: September 9, 2021 | Author: Becky Schmidt '99

Senior Day Tribute: Baseball

Published: May 6, 2021 | Author: Blogs Administrator

Senior Day Tribute: Men’s Track and Field

Published: May 5, 2021 | Author: Blogs Administrator

Senior Day Tribute: Women’s Track and Field

Published: | Author: Blogs Administrator

Senior Day Tribute: Women’s Tennis

Published: May 4, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Senior Day Tribute: Women’s Golf

Published: April 30, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Senior Day Tribute: Softball

Published: April 29, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Spring Student-Athletes Discuss Gratitude and Leadership, Part 2

Published: April 27, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Spring Student-Athletes Discuss Gratitude and Leadership, Part 1

Published: | Author: Alan Babbitt

Senior Day Tribute: Men’s Lacrosse

Published: April 20, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Senior Day Tribute: Women’s Lacrosse

Published: April 16, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Senior Day Tribute: Volleyball

Published: April 12, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Senior Day Tribute: Women’s Soccer

Published: March 30, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Baseball Coach Stu Fritz: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: March 11, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Softball Coach Mary VandeHoef: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: March 5, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Men’s Lacrosse Coach Michael Schanhals: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: February 27, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Senior Day Tribute: Women’s Basketball

Published: February 26, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Senior Day Tributes: Men’s Basketball

Published: February 19, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Women’s Lacrosse Coach Keagan Pontious: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: February 18, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Senior Day Tributes: Men’s and Women’s Swim/Dive

Published: February 11, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Tennis Coach Bob Cawood: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: | Author: Alan Babbitt

Winter Student-Athletes Discuss Leadership and Gratitude, Part 2

Published: February 2, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Winter Student-Athletes Discuss Leadership and Gratitude, Part 1

Published: | Author: Alan Babbitt

One Team, One Hope

Published: January 25, 2021 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Football Coach Peter Stuursma and Senior Joey Stark: Hope Athletics Podcast:

Published: January 24, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Track and Field Coach Kevin Cole: Hope Athletics Podcast:

Published: January 22, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Director of Athletics Tim Schoonveld: Hope Athletics Podcast:

Published: January 12, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Hope Reynolds, Swim/Dive Teams Keep Faith Amid Cancer Diagnosis

Published: January 3, 2021 | Author: Alan Babbitt

‘A Dad’s Dream’ for Three Hope Coaches

Published: December 27, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Dear Hope Athletics Community,

Published: December 20, 2020 | Author: Blogs Administrator

Tim Koberna Works a New Health-Care Sideline in the Time of COVID-19

Published: December 17, 2020 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Equipment Manager Gordon VanderYacht to Retire

Published: November 24, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Women’s Basketball Coach Brian Morehouse: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: November 20, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Men’s Basketball Coach Greg Mitchell: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: November 12, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Swim/Dive Coach Jake Taber: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: October 30, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Student-Athletes Aid Effort to Stop Youth Hunger in West Michigan

Published: October 28, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Women’s Golf Coach: Greg Stafford: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: October 23, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Fall Student-Athletes Discuss Leadership and Gratitude amid COVID-19, Part II

Published: October 20, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Fall Student-Athletes Discuss Leadership and Gratitude Amid COVID-19, Part I

Published: | Author: Alan Babbitt

Football Coach Peter Stuursma: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: October 16, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Cross Country Coach Mark Northuis: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: October 9, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Student-Athletes Take Steps Against Interpersonal Violence

Published: October 6, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Women’s Soccer Coach Leigh Sears: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: September 30, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Strength and Conditioning Coach Dan Margritz: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: September 24, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Men’s Golf Coach Scott Lokers: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: September 16, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Ana Tucker: “She’s a Kind of Renaissance Woman”

Published: September 14, 2020 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Hope College Swimmers Find ‘Flexible and Creative’ Ways to Train This Summer

Published: September 11, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Men’s Soccer Coach Dave Brandt: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: September 9, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Baseball with the Traverse City Pit Spitters a Hit for Evan Maday

Published: September 3, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Volleyball Coach Becky Schmidt: Hope Athletics Podcast

Published: August 31, 2020 | Author: Alan Babbitt

Momentum

Published: July 29, 2020 | Author: Brock Benson '16

Use Your Peripheral Vision

Published: July 20, 2020 | Author: Kamara Sudberry

My Hope for a Better Future

Published: July 7, 2020 | Author: Shawn Jackson '14

Silence is Compliance

Published: June 26, 2020 | Author: Angelique Gaddy

A Message from AD Tim Schoonveld

Published: June 15, 2020 | Author: Tim Schoonveld

Searching…Searching…Got It!

Published: April 29, 2020 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Get Your Hope Athletics Creativity On!

Published: April 8, 2020 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Leaping and Diving by Faith

Published: February 28, 2020 | Author: Anna Mitchell '21

30 Million Yards and Counting

Published: February 18, 2020 | Author: Anna Mitchell '21

An Impressive, If Occasionally Broken, Body of Work

Published: | Author: Anna Mitchell '21

From the Athletic Director

Published: January 17, 2020 | Author: Tim Schoonveld

The Bigger Picture

Published: | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

#WeAreOne: Fall Sports Roundup

Published: | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

We Do the Math

Published: | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Lessons from the Leveling Field

Published: | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Water for Learning and Life

Published: | Author: Josh Bishop

Full-Time, Year-Round, Hyphened-Identity Balancing Acts

Published: | Author: Alan Babbitt

It’s Cool to be a Nurse, Bro!

Published: | Author: Odille Parker '14

New-ish Coaches on the Block, Part 1

Published: | Author: James Rogers

New-ish Coaches on the Block, Part 2

Published: | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Playing Catch Up: Duy Dang ’91

Published: | Author: Josh Bishop

Playing Catch Up: Where Alumni-Athletes are Now?

Published: | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Finishing Lines: To Lesotho with Love

Published: | Author: Kenedy Schoonveld '21, Women's basketball student-athlete

Emari Hardy: Focused on Academics and Athletics

Published: September 19, 2019 | Author: Lenny Padilla

The Complementary Cohorts of Volleyball and Research

Published: September 3, 2019 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Planting Seeds, Growing Hope

Published: September 2, 2019 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Athletes’ Journal: Mitchel Achien’g

Published: August 26, 2019 | Author: Mitchel Achien'g

Mitchel Achien’g’s Long Jump from Nairobi to Hope

Published: May 1, 2019 | Author: Anna Mitchell '21

Gino Battaglia’s Heart For Servant-Leadership in Quest of MIAA Championships

Published: April 22, 2019 | Author: Odille Parker

Athletes’ Journal: Annie Veld

Published: April 8, 2019 | Author: Annie Veld '19

Stu Fritz’s Full-Circle-Plus Journey in the ABCA

Published: March 14, 2019 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

They’ve Got That Family Feeling

Published: February 28, 2019 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Friends Out of Competitors

Published: February 7, 2019 | Author: Murphy Stadelmaier '19

Women’s Basketball Team Learns Life-Lasting Lessons about MLK in Atlanta

Published: January 21, 2019 | Author: Alan Babbitt, Sports Information Director

Athletes’ Journal: Jake Kozlowski

Published: December 11, 2018 | Author: Jake Kozlowski

Athletes’ Journal: Ryann Stutz

Published: December 3, 2018 | Author: Ryann Stutz '20

Athletes’ Journal: Jacob Faustyn

Published: November 20, 2018 | Author: Jacob Faustyn

Hope Athletes’ Journal: Aubrey Wilson

Published: November 13, 2018 | Author: Aubrey Wilson

Hope Athletes’ Journal: Jason Beckman

Published: October 29, 2018 | Author: Jason Beckman '19

Walking Into the Fire

Published: October 18, 2018 | Author: Laurel Frederickson '21

Hope Athletes’ Journal: Grace Bubin

Published: October 11, 2018 | Author: Grace Bubin '19

Half a World Away But Close to Hope

Published: October 8, 2018 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Hope Athletes’ Journal: Steve Binnig

Published: September 21, 2018 | Author: Steve Binnig '19

Body and Soul: The Haley Fischman Story

Published: June 12, 2018 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Translative Lessons From Athletics to Career: The Alexis Thompson Story

Published: May 14, 2018 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Life Lessons on Base

Published: March 28, 2018 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Family First: The Dennis Towns Story

Published: November 14, 2017 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert

Gaining a Global Perspective Through Sport

Published: September 7, 2017 | Author: Joey Williams '18

Faith and Sports in Action in India and Japan

Published: September 5, 2017 | Author: Anders Northuis '19

More to Sweden than Ikea

Published: August 23, 2017 | Author: Erin Brophy '18

The Making of Fields of Dreams

Published: May 4, 2017 | Author: Eva Dean Folkert