The 2010-11 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Academic Honor Roll has been announ
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The 2010-11 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Academic Honor Roll has been announced by Commissioner David Neilson and 111 Calvin scholar-athletes have been named to the list. The honor roll recognizes scholar-athletes who achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale) for the entire 2010-11 academic year. A student needed to have won a varsity letter in a sport to be eligible. The MIAA Academic Honor Roll program was initiated in 1990 to recognize students at MIAA member colleges who excel both in athletics and in the classroom. This year’s Honor Roll includes several students who achieved the distinction four consecutive years.
Of the students, 10 are from Calvin.
Former Calvin Soccer Players Reflect on Life of Dr. Marv Zuidema
Monday, June 27, 2011
By Sports Information Student Assistant Andrew Knot
“My life at Calvin has been one of wearing many hats.” So said the late Dr. Marvin Zuidema in a 2004 interview with the Calvin Spark. An educator, administrator, and coach of multiple sports, Zuidema’s most-recognized role came at the helm of the Calvin men’s soccer program. Most often with a maroon windbreaker jacket and a pair of khaki slacks, Zuidema wore that cap for 36 years. Less than a week ago, on June 18th, Zuidema died after a year-long struggle with illness. “Coach Z” no longer wears the Calvin soccer hat he donned in his 36 years as head coach, the one he continued to wear for the next 14 years as both an administrator and a fan. The next season of Knight athletics will mark the first in almost a half-century without Marv’s warm focus on sidelines and in bleachers.
Longtime Calvin Soccer Coach, Educator and Administrator Passes Away
Saturday, June 18, 2011
GRAND RAPIDS - Calvin College has lost one of its legendary Knights. Dr. Marvin A. Zuidema passed away late this afternoon after a battle with illness of just over a year. He was 75. Known as “Dr. Z” to those in the Calvin community, Zuidema touched many lives at Calvin, in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association and in collegiate athletics across the country. A native of Muskegon, Zuidema graduated from Calvin College in 1957. He continued on to earn a master’s degree at Michigan State University and in 1961, returned to Calvin as an instructor and coach in the school’s physical education department. For the next 43 years, he served the Calvin physical education department as a professor, department chair, coach and director of men’s athletics.
Visitation will take place at Zaagman Funeral Home in Grand Rapids on Tuesday, June 21, from 5-to-8 p.m. and on Wednesday, June 22, from 5-to-8 p.m. The funeral will take place on Thursday, June 23 at 3 p.m. at Shawnee Park Christian Reformed Church located directly (east) behind Grand Rapids Christian High School.
Grand Rapids Press Story on Dr. Marv Zuidema
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