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Aviation minor takes flightEleven students enrolled in courses for newly-accredited minorBy Al FAirchildStaff [email protected]
Lakeland College’s highly-anticipated aviation minor program has finally made it
off the ground.Dr. Kathleen Rath Marr, who
oversees the program, verified last Wednesday, Sept. 21, that repre-sentatives of the North Central Association of Colleges’ Higher Learning Commission (NCA/HLC) completed their evaluation on Tuesday, Sept. 20, and have
informed the Lakeland adminis-tration they will recommend the program for accreditation.
The recommendation was the primary hurdle the college needed to cross to achieve formal recogni-tion of the minor, which is sched-uled to be issued by the Higher Learning Commission in Novem-ber.
Eleven students have started classroom courses on Lakeland’s main campus, and flight training has begun at the Sheboygan Coun-ty Memorial Airport, according to
Joe McGeorge, Lakeland’s new in-structor of aviation.
McGeorge, who recently moved to Lakeland from the Insti-tute of Aviation at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, noted that the Lakeland program seems to already be staking out a position of success among the na-tion’s college flight schools.
“This program appears to have been well thought out in ad-vance,” he said.
Some other college programs, including those at the Univer-
sity of Illinois and St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, haven’t fared so well. Those two programs were recently forced to close, in large part because they purchased all of their own aircraft and needed to provide expensive support and mainte-nance activities.
Lakeland, on the other hand, operates its program in conjunc-tion with Frontline Aviation, the flight-training arm of Jet Air Cor-poration in Green Bay.
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Lakeland remembers Jack SchoemerDirector of Human Resources passes to the "flip side"By dAnny [email protected]
John (Jack) Schoemer, Lake-land’s director of human re-sources for the past decade,
passed away Sept. 15 after a courageous three year battle with cancer.
Joe Botana, Lakeland’s vice president of finance, and one of Schoemer’s best friends, said Schoemer was likely one of the first people many of Lakeland’s current employees met at the col-lege.
“One of the amazing things was that, as he fought this thing, particularly last year when it wasn’t going well, he just wouldn’t give up,” said Botana. “He would come into work and say, ‘I’m doing fine,’ even though you could tell he wasn’t. He was really suffering. It was hard for him to walk. It was hard for him to do the things he needed to do. He was just trusting God and knowing that he would do what he needed to do to make sure the cancer didn’t win because he didn’t fight back.”
Shortly after Schoemer was hired, he worked with human re-sources directors from other pri-vate colleges in Wisconsin to de-velop a joint, cost-saving benefits package that employees from all the colleges, including Lakeland, are still covered by today. Schoe-mer was in charge of employee leaving and hiring processes, dis-ciplinary issues, unemployment, and all other human resources-related services at Lakeland since his hiring.
Shikara Beaudoin, manager of human resources, has worked with Schoemer since she was hired in 2005. She said Schoemer’s condition forced him to go on an
extended leave of absence last fall, and when he returned last spring, Lakeland presented him with a framed mission statement signed by Lakeland employees.
“His first day back we had this gift to give him and he start-ed tearing up,” Beaudoin said. “He was just overjoyed. It really touched him. He was an amazing man, truly amazing. He’s one of those people that if you ever met him, you would be so thankful he’s in your life.”
Botana was a pallbearer at Schoemer’s funeral, along with IT Director Larry Marcus, V.P. of Student Development Nate Deh-ne, and former V.P. of the Kellett School Allan Mitchler.
The four developed a close bond with Schoemer over the years. They worked together of-ten at Lakeland, and were all huge fans of “The Godfather” films. The group, christened by Schoe-mer as “The Commission,” hung out whenever they could, talking, eating Italian food, drinking red wine, and, of course, watching “The Godfather.”
“It was the most unstressful time,” Marcus said, adding that Schoemer was one of the stron-
gest people he’s ever met. “You’re stuffing yourself with good food. You’re joking and laughing about all these great stories. All of us are pretty well-versed with the movie. One time I brought a wine bottle from the director’s vineyard. Sometimes somebody dressed up in a suit to look mafia-like. We went all out. We took our mob movies seriously.”
Dehne called Schoemer a “kind-hearted and self-giving” person, and said he cherishes his time with “The Commission.”
“When you get around your closest friends there’s just a calm. That’s what I remember about the five of us being together,” Dehne said.
In his eulogy, Mitchler stated that he will remember one lesson Schoemer taught him: to appreci-ate the “flip sides” - the less obvi-ous aspects - of situations, stories, and people. Mitchler spoke about Schoemer’s “flip sides”: while he was valued in the Lakeland com-munity, Schoemer also valued the Lakeland community, and showed it by turning the fall President’s Picnic into an event with a carni-val atmosphere; he shared good times with “The Commission,” but
also stood by them in trying times; his body lost a battle to cancer, but his never-surrendering spirit won the war.
Before arriving at Lakeland, Schoemer worked in Human Re-sources at Armira Leather and Tecumseh Products. Schoemer served in many positions for the local chapter of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Manage-ment) teaching human resources certification classes.
Schoemer was instrumental in starting the Sheboygan Softball Association and was inducted into the SSA Hall of Fame as a player, coach, and administrator.
Jack is survived by his lov-ing wife Bonnie, daughters Susan (Derek) Murphy of Germantown, Barbara (Brian) Hamann of She-boygan and Michael (Tracy) Schoemer of Cedarburg; his be-loved grandchildren Trevor and Rachael Murphy, Lauren and Nathan Hamann, Julie and Emily Roznik and a grandson expected in November. He is further sur-vived by his brothers Tom (Mary) Schoemer, Paul (Anne) Schoemer, Ruth (Joe) Ross and Lou (Wes) Henning; nieces and nephews; and all of his Lakeland friends.
Left to right: The five dons: Larry Marcus, Jack Schoemer, Nate Dehne, Joe Botana, and Allan Mitchler.
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New year, new search for a PresidentPSC commences new search with new consulting firmBy Danny [email protected]
New technology for Lake TV means the ability to air student-produced
commercials and more current updates.
According to Sally Bork, assis-tant director of student activities, technology advancements for Lake TV allowed the addition of stu-dent commercials. Previous years only permitted for PowerPoint slides to be aired, but now the for-mat of the program has changed to permit the use of Windows Me-dia Video (WMV) files.
Bork encouraged student organizations to create commer-cials to advertise upcoming events they are hosting. This could be as simple as group leaders beacon-ing for people to attend the event or by showing clips of Lakeland’s performers. In order to be able to show a clip of an act, performers, such as comedians, must grant Lake TV permission to air clips.
Emma Drake, president of Theatricians, expressed interest in producing commercials on Lake TV. Drake said the group had done some advertising in the past, but were limited to only showing slide
shows.Theatricians is eager to use
Lake TV to show people what they do.
“Some of the things we would like to film would be short scenes, improv, or even talk about issues in the community or on campus that students are facing,” she said. Active Theatricians mem-bers would be able to participate in the commercials. She hopes to advertise for Theatricians’ future productions.
Kimberly DeJong, president of Habitat for Humanity, said creating commercials would be a great way to promote Habitat’s fundraisers. “The commercials will probably be made by either me or the vice president. Habi-tat has a fundraiser coming up at Pizza Ranch in November, so it would be nice to advertise with a commercial,” DeJong said.
Organizations interested in making commercials must obtain their own resources for filming. “Lakeland does not have cameras for organizations to use at this point in time because the program is just getting started. However, most cell phones now have the ability to take YouTube quality videos,” Bork said.
Bork mentioned getting local
retailers involved in helping with the cost of the running Lake TV. How this would work is Lake TV would sell commercial space to retailers. The idea is to then buy cameras for commercial use with the money.
“It would be difficult to create limitations on the ‘professionalism’ of the commercials because we do not have cameras for student or-ganizations to use,” Bork said. “At this point in time, the quality of the commercials is at the discre-tion of the student organizations. The most important thing is that we can see it and hear it.”
“Commercials are expected to be appropriate. A large vari-ety of people will be viewing the commercials, so it is required that there is no use of foul language or nudity,” Bork said.
Bork and Larry Marcus, as-sociate director of IT operations, are still in the process of creating a committee to establish and en-force restrictions and guidelines for commercials. Students with any questions or possible commer-cial submissions should see Bork in the Campus Center or email her at [email protected].
Commercials are not the only change being made to Lake TV.
“In addition to being moved
from channel 20 to 123, security will now have the ability to up-date class cancelations as they happen,” Bork said.
Previously, cancelations were made at seven in the morning by Deb Fale or Marcy Werthmann after checking their email and voicemails upon arrival. Now, security will have the ability to update class cancellations imme-diately through Blackboard. The class cancelation is then updated automatically to Lake TV.
Residence Life Cinema, a company through which Lakeland has a contract, gives Lake TV the rights to run movies on this chan-nel. Every month Lakeland buys the rights to show seven to eight movies on Lake TV.
Movies will be shown Mon-days through Thursdays start-ing at 5 p.m. until 1 or 2 a.m. On weekends, movies will begin Fri-day evening at 5 p.m. and run con-tinuously through Saturday and Sunday.
This month’s lineup of mov-ies: “Soul Surfer,” “Paul,” “Your Highness,” “Thor,” “Something Borrowed,” and “Hoodwinked 2.”
Requests for movies should be submitted to Bork. Movie sug-gestions should be made at least a month in advance.
Possibility to make commercials at LCAn inside look at Lake TVBy Stephanie ReBekStaff [email protected]
Consultants from the re-cently chosen search firm that will facilitate Lake-
land’s search for a new president met with college stakeholders last week.
The consultants from Witt/Kieffer, a national search firm that primarily works with nonprofit organizations in health care and higher education, met with stu-dents, faculty, staff, trustees, Pres-ident Stephen Gould, and mem-bers of the Presidential Search Committee (PSC) Sept. 21-22 to
try to better understand Lakeland and what people at Lakeland are looking for in a new president, ac-cording to Jeff Ottum, chair of the PSC.
“The purpose is to really help them understand who we are as a college—what’s special and dis-tinctive about Lakeland, what makes this a great place, what goals we have, what challenges we have—and with all that begin ask-ing, ‘What are we looking for in a new president?’” Ottum said.
Ottum said he and other members of the PSC will work with Witt/Kieffer over the next few weeks to write a profile of
the college and a profile of what the college is looking for in a new president.
He said the PSC hopes to publish a profile in higher educa-tion magazines in mid-October. While the search process will look similar to last year’s, he said the committee will likely alter aspects of the search like their screen-ing process and the way they will bring people to campus because of what they learned from last year’s search.
“One thing that we know is if we do the same things we have always done we’ll get the same re-sult, and we didn’t get a good re-
sult last year. We didn’t find the person that we were looking for and of course that’s what we were trying to do. The first big change was selecting a different consul-tant partner.”
The PSC decided this sum-mer to partner with Witt/Kieffer instead of AGB Search, the origi-nal firm they chose to work with in the search that started last year and saw three candidates es-sentially interview with college stakeholders at open forums but yielded no replacement for Presi-dent Gould, who is scheduled to retire in May.
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“By utilizing Frontline’s ex-perienced flight instructors and Jet Air’s fleet of training aircraft—complete with professional main-tenance services—the program eliminates many of the costs that doomed the other schools’ pro-grams to financial failure,” Mc-George said.
The aviation minor program is a part of Lakeland’s Natural Science division, chaired by Rath Marr, who attributes much of its success to a unique combination of technical skills attained through the college’s ground school and Frontline’s flight training com-bined with the critical thinking students develop while pursuing a four-year degree at Lakeland.
“The combination of the two,” she said, “is something the avia-tion industry is increasingly look-
ing for in the job pool.“An additional advantage
of pursuing flight instruction as part of a degree program is that full-time students are eligible for grants, scholarships, and student loans.”
Such savings can be signifi-cant, with a private pilot’s license usually requiring 60 hours of in-struction. With hourly costs just over $100 per hour, that’s more than $6,000 on top of tuition, Rath Marr said.
Employment opportunities in the industry are expected to increase over the next 20 years as a large number of pilots born just after World War II begin retir-ing. Airlines worldwide will need nearly 50,000 pilots during that period, according to ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Orga-nization.
McGeorge pointed to Ameri-
can Eagle—American Airlines’ regional commuter carrier—as an example of how sought-after com-mercial pilots are in the industry, even during today’s tough eco-nomic times.
“Airline Pilot Central, a reli-able source of hiring information for the commuter airline indus-try,” he said, “shows American Eagle reducing its total flight-time requirement from 1000 flight hours to 550, and its multi-engine requirement from 100 hours to 50,” he said. McGeorge said that indicates the airline is aggressively seeking new pilots.
“They’ve hired 700 so far this year,” he said.
Frontline’s training includes Student-As-Practitioner (SAP) activities, which are already a part of Lakeland’s curriculum.
“SAP enables students to fit in more readily with the corporate
structures common to the indus-try, and opens work-study and internship opportunities to up-perclassmen,” said Rath Marr.
That enables them to work towards advanced certifications, like the multi-engine rating, com-mercial and Air Transport Pilot (ATP) certificates, and to qualify them as flight instructors.
Lakeland’s 31-credit minor combines ground school—during which students study basic avia-tion science, the Federal Air Regu-lations (FARs), aviation weather, and electives like the history of aviation and flight physiology—with hands-on training in a sin-gle-engine Cessna 152 trainer. Jet Air will provide more advanced aircraft as the college’s first group of students progress through the program.
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Japanese Student Association (JSA), a group meant to en-courage campus involvement
from Lakeland’s Japanese stu-dents, was officially estab-lished on Sept. 21.
JSA was first proposed to students by several Japanese students, who already had at least one semester’s experience of studying at Lakeland College’s main campus. It was led by Alex-ander Dudek, the president, and Ayako Mori, the vice president, in the beginning of the Fall semester. JSA has already had many meet-ings to shape its constitution, and just started to design an original hoodie for JSA members.
“The main goal of the as-sociation is to break a negative stereotype for Japanese people—for example, we are shy and not active—and to actively cooperate with not only international stu-dents but also domestic students,” Dudek said.
In addition to informing and
sharing its culture, Dudek also said that JSA will be forging a strong tie between the Lakeland College Japan campus and the home cam-pus in Sheboygan so that many students can easily transfer to the Japan campus and vice versa with-out as much anxiety.
JSA also wants to get Japa-nese students more involved in campus life.
Daiya Akiyama, the secretary of JSA and a midfielder on Lake-land’s soccer team, commented, “I hope that many more Japanese students will also be active in sports teams. Just being on the team was the biggest challenge for me because I’m the only Japa-nese student on the Muskie soccer team, and communicating with other players made me grow up mentally.” Akiyama said he thinks the language barrier is the big burden for most international stu-dents, but that communication is the most important thing to adapt to in a new community.
One of JSA’s major plans is the International Food Festival, which is scheduled to be held on
Nov. 19. JSA will make traditional Japanese foods for the festival. It is the major event for student or-ganizations including JSA, Chi-nese Student Association (CSA) and Global Student Association (GSA).
Margarita Barraza Diaz, pres-ident of GSA, said, “We want peo-ple to try food from our countries, and this is an opportunity for us to share our culture with the com-munity.” Damian Zhu, president of CSA, is excited about the fes-tival and plans to have a Chinese food class after the event.
In addition, JSA plans to have Japanese movie nights, pub par-ties, and cleaning along the lake-shore to contribute to the Sheboy-gan community, and fundraising events for the 3/11 earthquake in Japan in the future.
Lakeland community mem-bers who are interested in JSA or who want to volunteer for the In-ternational Food Festival should contact any member of the stu-dent associations mentioned in this article.
New student associationAn effort to get Japanese students more involvedBy Reina KatoStaff [email protected]
On Sept. 29 familiar tunes will fill the Bradley begin-ning at 7:30 p.m. Ranging
from classical music to Motown and even a few melodies of their own, Plastic Musik will generate this music using plastic only in-struments.
Originally from Las Vegas, N V , P l a s t i c M u s i k h a s g r o w n from the original t h r e e d r u m -m e r s to their current s t a t e of five m u l t i -i n s t r u -mentalists. They are currently touring the U.S., and Lakeland is one stop out of over one hundred performances.
The shows, differently from what most would imagine, are not like normal concerts. They
have music, but in addition to just music they “incorporate carefully choreographed movement, musi-cal improvisation, audience par-ticipation, on-stage interaction, and performer personality into a show that is sure to stimulate the senses.” This is according to their website, plasticmusik.com.
One of their most infamous instruments is a product called a “Boomwacker” which is a set of
plast ic t u b e s t h a t vary in c o l o r a n d size and produce musical notes.
A s t h e i r website puts it, “ W h a t h a p -
pens when you combine plastic tubes, laundry tubes, musical in-struments, and a bunch of classic songs?.............Plastic Musik!”
Tickets are required for this show, and can be acquired for free in Bradley.
Innovation at LCA new way to do music
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In a change from recent years, residence life is now offering single rooms in the suites. Pre-
viously, Lakeland has had trouble filling all of the suites, said Jim Ba-jczyk, director of residence life.
“At the same time, though, the demand for single rooms was going up,” he continued. “By of-fering single rooms in the suites, we were able to satisfy both the demand for single rooms and fill the suites.”
Residence life offered up 20 single rooms in the suites, and 18 of them were filled.
Students residing in a single room in the suites were also given the option of painting their rooms if they so desired , though the col-or and brand of paint must be ap-proved by the residence life office. A drop cloth must be requested, and (after painting has been com-pleted) the rooms must pass in-spections to make sure no stains are left. Students in single rooms of the suites who decide to paint their rooms will not be responsi-ble for painting over the new color at the end of the term.
Residence halls become more studious: In an ef-fort to support Lakeland’s
overall message that learning doesn’t stop when you leave the classroom, new areas called aca-demic lounges will soon be imple-mented in Krueger, Brotz, Mue-hlmeier, and Grosshuesch halls for residents to take advantage of. These lounges will provide an environment where residents can go to study, do homework, and get help from tutors without the dis-tractions common in dorm rooms.
The idea was proposed by senior Biology major and writing and science tutor Tarra Bourgeois, a summer resident assistant (RA).
“Jim [Bajcyzk] asked me about suggestions for making the halls more academic. Since we re-cently got rid of the APA position, I brought up the idea of having an academic lounge where we could possibly have tutors doing their hours in the hall. That way, stu-dents would be more likely to uti-lize the tutors and it would make the halls more academic. In the past, students would try to study in their rooms or the lounge but [with other residents] it was dif-ficult to find a quiet space. Some
students would go to the library and others would just suffer aca-demically,” Bourgeois said.
After discussing the idea in more detail, Bajcyzk decided that Bourgeois’ idea was a good one, and set the ball rolling. “If there was something the residence life department could do to help fur-ther the academic success of our students, especially if what we could do would come at little to no expense for us, there was no rea-son not to,” Bajczyk commented.
Bourgeois and some of the oth-er Lakeland tutors will be putting in one hour every week in the aca-demic lounges of Krueger, Brotz, Muehlmeier, and Grosshuesch halls so that struggling students may come to them more easily for help.
While the academic lounges have not yet reached completion, Bajcyzk is hopeful that they will be up and running within the next couple of weeks. They are still be-ing formed in the respective halls, and the tutoring schedule has not yet been finalized, but once the final pieces of equipment arrive, students in these residence halls will have more venues to help them succeed.
Changes in residence lifeBy SKye SieglaffCopy [email protected]
Kelly Stone, chaplain at Lakeland College since the fall of 2006, will be leaving
later this fall to work at Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass., as Protestant chaplain and director of multifaith programs. She will serve as a chaplain on a multifaith staff that serves the needs of the women at Wellesley, and she will
coordinate the multifaith work of The Office of Religious and Spiri-tual Life.
“Over the past five years, it has been my privilege to come to know and love the members of the Lakeland family,” she said.
“I am humbled by how the members of this community have shared with me their laughter and
tears, joys and sorrows, and tri-als and triumphs. Lakeland will always have a special place in my heart.”
A specific timetable for when Kelly will be leaving Lakeland is still being determined. Please wish her well as she prepares for her new endeavor, and thank her for all she’s done for Lakeland.
Kelly Stone leaving LakelandNoise Violation 12-Sep KruegerDisorderly Conduct 12-Sep South CommonsPublic Drunkenness 12-Sep Pub & KruegerEMS/Medical 16-Sep FriedliSuspicious Activity 19-Sep MuehlmeierNoise Violation 13-Sep GrosshueschFire Alarm 7-Sep MuehlmeierWeapon Violation 30-Aug MuehlmeierUnderage Drinking 27-Aug SouthUnderage Drinking 26-Aug FriedliDrug Arrest 21-Sep MuehlmeierUnderage Drinking 25-Sep Pub PartyUnderage Drinking 23-Sep MuehlmeierVandalism to Auto 26-Sep Lot D
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“We really felt we were swimming upstream by continu-ing with AGB Search just because, although they did an excellent job for us, they really had gone through almost two complete rounds of talking to candidates and bring-ing names to us and so on, and the committee decided, ‘We ought to have a fresh perspective on that. We ought to have some folks that probably have a different network, a different group of possible candi-dates we could look at. If we didn’t find the right person last time we don’t want to be recycling the same possible list of names.’ And so we decided to switch firms,” Ottum said.
Ottum said members of the PSC decided to partner with Witt/Kieffer because of its large networking capabilities and be-cause the partnership “fit.”
“A lot of this is about ‘fit,’” he said. “It’s about, ‘Can you build a relationship with the people that you’re working with? Do you have confidence that they understand who we are as an institution and what we’re looking for?’”
Ottum said this year’s com-mittee, made up of General Studies Division Chair Jeff Elzinga, Social Sciences Division Chair Elizabeth Stroot, and trustees Jeff Spence, Barbara Gannon, David Michael, and Ottum, was both energized and serious during their meetings last week.
“We understand that there are a whole lot of people at Lake-land who this affects a lot,” Ot-tum said. “The person that we pick, how long it takes, the kind of person we’re looking for—that matters to a lot of people. This is about their jobs and their liveli-hoods, and they care about this institution.”
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I’m interning for Profes-sor Karl Elder in the writing department, do-
ing some of the legwork for the Great Lakes Writer’s Festival in November. One of my jobs is to order the T-shirts that will be sold dur-ing the event. I asked Karl about ordering them with pockets this year and his response was that the tradi-tional students
“wouldn’t stand for it.”Wouldn’t stand
for it?It’s not like I’m
asking for both pockets AND
pocket pro-tectors. My request isn’t
unreasonable. I’m even willing to ac-cept colors other than gray.
Now, I happen to know that Karl is younger than me,
and I take statements from “kids” like him with a
grain of salt. I also realize, however, that he has
enough experience with Lakeland’s
students to possibly be right—only possibly. So I’m accepting his judgment with mere token resis-tance. I’ll get a shirt with a pocket, even if I have to sew it on myself.
What really bothers me is that he’s expecting me to cave in to the whims of a bunch of youngsters who go around calling t h e m s e l v e s “Muskies.”
Really? A fish? I think you all need guidance.
T h i n k about it: if you’re going to label your-selves with a moniker that reflects the personality of your school, and your school is known as “the college in the cornfield,” well, I think the solution is self-explanatory.
“The Children of the Corn!”
Imagine the psycho-logical effect on visiting football teams when a
bunch of Amish zombies carrying machetes enter the stands from the rows of cornstalks just beyond Taylor Field’s north goal-post.
(Note to self: Don’t of-fend members of tradition-al religious groups...and try to be sensitive towards zombies, too.)
Think of what the players them-selves could do with the black eye grease they wear to cut down on glare. They, too, would be equipped with machet-es. Opposing
players would find it dif-ficult to watch the plays while keeping an eye on the fans at the same time. Soon, they’d realize how serious things had become, and they might just throw up their hands and leave. Lakeland could conceiv-ably go to the top of the NAC without needing to
play much football.The Alverno Inferno, though,
might take things just as serious-ly. If they did, then it could get hot in the old cornfield. And the 300 visiting fans of the Aurora Spartans? Well, that would just be silliness.
I guess we need to consider tennis, too, where the opposing players are themselves armed. Wrestling? Suffice it to say that Nebraska, in the Big Ten, already has claimed the name “Corn-huskers.” And soccer? A little too quick and maneuverable for zom-bies to deal with. How about bas-ketball? Lean beans against corn. Veggies-versus-veggies. Conflict of interest. Groan.
You know, the more I con-sider this, the more I’m beginning to realize a couple of things:
Tees don’t really need pock-ets…and it’s not that bad being a fish.
“Really, a fish?
”
We’ve all been there. You’re driving and one of two things
happens: you ‘re going the speed limit or five miles per hour (mph) over and someone is tailgating you (in a pass-ing zone), or you drive up on someone going about ten mph under the speed limit.
Now, if you’re going five mph over the speed limit (let’s face it, most of us do), people should slow down and take a deep breath. There is no rea-son, with the exception of an actual emergency, that some-one should be tailgating you in a passing zone.
In a no-passing zone, there is little to be done about let-ting someone around you. But in the cases where you’re on the highway—or in a passing
zone—this kind of behavior is unnecessary.
No one should be forced to go more than five mph over, ever. In actuality, no one should be forced to go over the speed limit if they aren’t comfortable, or even if they just don’t want to.
Going too slow is just as rude.
With the exception of weather, construction, and school zones, most of the time, there is no reason to be going such an extreme amount be-low the speed limit (and by that I mean ten or more mph under the speed limit). Maybe a person isn’t in a hurry—but really, most people are. And going ten mph under the speed limit can cause a lot of issues.
Value Lakeland friends while you canStaff Editorial
It’s easy to lose track of the number of times you hear people call Lakeland a “special
place.” But, like all good things in life, it’s easy to take such a place for granted.
The same rings true of the bonds we form here. Jack Schoe-mer, Lakeland’s director of human resources, passed away on Sept. 15. His passing brought to many this realization in full force. If you just
mention his name to almost any Lakeland employees—especially those in “The Commission”—chances are that he or she can con-jure up a fond memory of Jack
One member of “The Com-mission” who is feeling Jack’s loss, Nate Dehne, advised students, “Surround yourself with good peo-ple and value those times together because you don’t get to pick when one of you isn’t going to be there.”
All should take Dehne’s ad-vice.
Most of us at Lakeland are lucky enough to have good friends like Jack or belong to groups like “The Commission.”
What bonds us differs. If we don’t watch an unhealthy amount of mob movies together, then maybe we play the same sport, or are pas-sionate about the same academic subject, or just enjoy a cold drink at The Pub on Saturday nights.
Whether you’re part of the faculty, staff, or student body, time here doing some of the things
we love with the people we love is limited, especially at a busy place like Lakeland.
Whatever kind of social cir-cles you belong to—and there are a lot in a close-knit community like Lakeland—don’t take them for granted.
Life at Lakeland can be busy, but remember never to be too busy for what’s most important, the re-lationships with good people that make Lakeland the community it is.
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One thing that can be said about new edu-cation professor Stepha-
nie Drotos is that she is a seasoned teacher. Before coming to Lake-land, Professor Drotos taught at the K-12 school level in Ohio, Flor-ida, South Carolina, Bulgaria, and Guatemala. Youngstown State University in Ohio and South Car-olina State University can both claim her as a former professor; she taught computer and Internet training courses at both universi-ties.
Drotos received her under-graduate degree from Ohio State University and her graduate de-gree from Ohio University.
Born and raised in rural northeast Ohio, Drotos left her hometown when she went away to college. Since graduating from college, she has lived for six years in South Carolina and one year in Guatemala. “Home is wherever you hang your hat,” says Drotos, adding that she thinks of all of the places she has lived in as home. This includes the Lake-land campus where she currently resides.
Both of Drotos’ par-ents still live in Northeast Ohio, in the same house she grew up in. She has only one sibling, a brother currently stationed on the Alabama Air Force base. She also has a son, three-year-old Mauricio, who is enrolled in Lakeland’s daycare center and “loves it.”
Drotos has travelled to Bulgaria, Norway, Canada, Honduras, Germany, Pakistan, Guatemala, El Salvador, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. She hasn’t traveled anywhere in recent years due to the fact that Mauricio was too young to enjoy the trip. She hopes to travel some-where over the summer now that her son is old enough to enjoy it.
Drotos is a first-generation college student. While in high school, she was interested in join-ing the Peace Corps. There are three jobs you can do while in the Peace Corps—doctor, engineer, or teacher.
“I figured that being a doctor
would i n -volve a lot of blood and gore, and I wasn’t a big fan of either of those things,” says Drotos. She had no interest in becoming an en-gineer, whereas teaching had always been an area of inter-est for her.
Two of Drotos’ favorite things to do are go to the park and take walks with her son. “When he was two,” she says, “we took a walk around our block [in South Carolina] and he walked all by himself the entire way. I was so proud of him.”
In her spare time—“What
spare time?” she jokes—Drotos likes to read and have down time with her son. She also likes to sleep as much as she can because “The first year of teaching is really busy.”
Drotos is teaching two class-es this term, Language Arts and Social Studies Methods and Early Childhood Education. In addition to these two classes, she is a stu-dent teacher observer. Two days each week, she travels to the local schools and sits in on a class be-ing taught by a Lakeland student teacher.
“I think that teaching is not
an easy thing to do,” said Drotos when asked about how dif-ficult it is to teach someone how to teach. “Holding the interest of your students can be extremely dif-ficult. The mark of a good teach-er is to make it look easy.”
D r o t o s didn’t really know anything about Lakeland before she was offered an in-terview here, but says that
she started doing research on the college as soon as the interview was finalized.
“Not a day has gone by yet where someone hasn’t asked me how I’m do-ing and genu-inely wanted to know,” she said with a smile. “I feel like I won the lottery by coming here!”
“When I first start-ed teaching my philosophy was to get students excited about math, and also to get them through the classes. That was when I was a teacher’s as-sistant, so I got to cheer the stu-dents on and say to them ‘good job.’”
Instead of being a teacher’s assistant with the philosophy of cheering people on she is now the assistant profes-sor of math with a little different view.
“Now that I am actually the teacher and have to assign grades my philosophy has definitely changed, and it’s kind of interest-ing. However, I still believe that
at t h e
end of the day
my students should come
away with an ap-preciation for math
and know that it is use-ful and it can be interesting.
I have also come to believe that students learn better on their own instead of when they are told,” said Molle with a smile on her face.
On her way to achieving this goal, Molle has been to many places throughout the U.S. She lived in Nebraska with her par-ents and two sisters, where she moved from house to house be-cause her parents loved to move.
When she graduated from high school, Molle attended Tru-man State University, where she r e c e i v e d her bach-elor’s in m a t h -e m a t i c s and phys-ics. Molle then went on to at-tain mas-ter’s and doctorate d e g r e e s in math-e m a t i c s from the University of Iowa.
Before moving to W i s c o n -sin, Molle was the assistant pro-fessor of mathematics at Franklin College in Franklin, Ind.
Molle is teaching three cours-es at Lakeland this term. She will be teaching Intermediate Alge-bra, Calculus I, and a new class to the college Statistics for Everyday Life. This class is being offered for a math and general education re-quirement.
“I enjoy teaching these class-es. It’s kind of funny because they
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differ-ent and
they all have a different va-
riety of students in them. The di-
versity is nice as well because then I’m not go-
ing into the same class or the same type of class three
times each day,” she said.Her experience at Lake-
land has been good so far. She is still learning the ropes - how things work - and what goes on around campus, but it has been positive so far.
“Everyone has been super nice and super helpful, which is always a good sign,” said Molle.
She currently resides in Green Bay with her fiancée, who also teaches math at St. Norbert College.
“He won the commuting battle, so I have a little bit of a drive,” she said.
In her free time, when she has it, she enjoys reading young adult fiction, such as the Harry Potter series and the Twilight saga, “easy read” books. She also enjoys watching sports with her fiancée.
“ W h e n I lived in N e b r a s k a , though, all we had was col-lege football, so when I got here and into Green Bay, I instantly be-came a Pack-er and Brew-ers fan, which was easy,” she said, laugh-ing.
M o l l e has been r e c o g n i z e d for her work several times
already. She received the Kath-erine Wagner Outstanding Mathematics Teaching Assis-tant Award in 2007. In 2008 she was awarded the Univer-sity of Iowa Outstanding TA award, and last November she was chosen Faculty of the Month by Franklin’s School Congress. Last summer she was also named Project NExT Fellow.
By Nicole geurtSFeatures [email protected]
After teaching accounting, personal finance, and com-puter classes and coaching
the girls varsity basketball team at Luxemburg-Casco High School in
Green Bay for eight years, Brett Killion has come to Lake-
land College to teach four courses: Inter-
mediate Ac-c o u n t i n g ,
A d -
vanced Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, and Busi-ness Leadership.
Killion grew up in Racine and moved to Green Bay, his cur-rent place of residence, in 2003. He has a brother who lives in St. Francis and both his parents re-side in Racine. He has been mar-ried for three years. He and his wife, a counselor in Green Bay, have a four-year-old dog, Leia.
Killion is an avid sports fan who enjoys playing golf and at-tending Wisconsin football and Brewers games when he has the chance. “I try to attend at least three or four Badger games per season,” he said, adding, “I’ve at-
tended the last four Rose Bowls that they’ve been at.” He
follows a lot of teams in the sports world, and
says he’s hoping to see the Brew-
ers in the W o r l d
S e -
ries this year. Killion prides him-self on being “pretty decent” with random sports facts.
He is also into doing yard work, a fact that he says surprises
him still. “My wife will ask what she can do to help, and I’ll tell her that I’ll do it all,” he said. “It re-laxes me.”
Killion received his bach-
elor’s degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 and his master’s degree from the same college in 2000. He later went through Con-
cordia University to get his teaching certificate.
After graduating in 2000, Killion took a job with Grant-Thornton public accounting firm in Madison, working as an auditor for a year. How-ever, he wasn’t a fan of the office setting, and decided to make a career switch to the classroom. He says he loves being in a classroom and being around stu-dents. He views that par-ticular move as being “one of the best decisions” he ever made.
Killion said before being
offered the job here, all he knew about L a k e -l a n d
was that it was in the Sheboygan/Plymouth area and that it had a strong accounting program. After coming to campus for his inter-view in April, Killion said he felt an immediate connection with the college. “If I could say one thing to the Lakeland commity, it would be, ‘Thank you for having me as a part of this great community, and I hope to do my best to represent Lakeland in a positive way.’”
Lakeland is accounting on Killion
Professor of Accounting, Brett Killion
Professor of Mathmatics, Heather Molle
Professor of Education, Stephanie Drotos
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Jeremy Hardy, resort manage-ment major, is an exceptional senior student athlete at Lake-
land College. Currently, he is a starting forward for the Musk-ies men’s soccer team.
Hardy has put five goals in the back of the net this season, leading the team in scoring. He was named NAC Player of the Week and also Muskie Player of the Week for Sept. 11-17.
Hardy said, “I have a pas-sion for the game, and hope I can help lead the team in many more victories this season.”
One thing that makes great players is the hard work and effort they put into their sport.
Hardy said, “I give 110 per-cent at practice and try to improve on some flaws that I may have had from the previous game.”
To be successful this year as an individual, Hardy dedicated most of his time outside of manda-tory practice to running, exercis-ing, and learning how to be a bet-
ter player through film.Hardy’s favorite part of the
game of soccer is the adrenaline that comes to him when he walks out onto the field. “I get a rush that makes me want to go the extra mile to win a challenge or see if I can steal the ball. I also love play-ing with the teammates I have and the friendships that we share. The
team chemistry has never been this strong, so that helps our ability to play together more efficiently,” he said.
Hardy pointed out the differ-ence between high school and col-lege soccer.
He explained, “One thing that
completely shocked me when I was a freshman was the physi-cality of play. The first time I ever touched the soccer ball in a game I was pushed right to the ground with no foul.”
Hardy believes you need to stay in excellent shape in order to avoid serious injuries. The advice he gives is to always eat right and keep pushing your-self to strive for excellence. “I recommend setting a realistic but challenging goal that you can accomplish sometime in your four years of college here at Lakeland.
“It might be in athletics, theatre, academics, or even your job,” he said.
Hardy is a student ath-lete with great potential and a caring nature toward oth-ers. “Lakeland has shaped me into the man I want to be. I have reached goals that I never
thought I could make, but also I thank Lakeland for the op-portunities that I have formed through my four years here,” Hardy said.
Week 4 of the NFL is on the horizon. That means you need to get your line-ups in for fantasy football. I’ve been a fantasy football commissioner for four years now, and I know just about every player’s stats on a week to week basis. I have listed the Top 10 players at each skill position going into Week 4.
Quarterbacks: It’s not hard to find a good signal-caller this year in fantasy football. You have the
b i g names in Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. You also have the unsung heroes in Harvard alum Ryan Fitzpatrick. It pains me that he is on my bench, as he is very productive. The following are my top 10 for week 4.
Tom Brady vs. 1. Oakland
Aaron Rodgers vs. 2. Denver
Philip Rivers vs. 3. Miami
Drew Brees vs. 4. Houston
Michael Vick vs. 5. San Francisco
Matthew Stafford vs. 6. Dallas
Matt Ryan vs. 7. Seattle
Ryan Fitzpatrick vs. 8. Cincinnati
Josh Freeman vs. 9. Indianapolis
Ben Roethlisberger 10. vs. Houston
Running Backs: The follow-ing are things I learned from week three. The
most consistent running back is Darren McFadden, and Fred Jackson is an unconventional 30-something back that gets it done (and deserves a raise). The under-appreciated back was a Division 2 star in college and has always been productive. Another thing to take note of is Chris Johnson’s inability to run the football. What happened?
Adrian Peterson vs. 1. Kansas City
Darren McFadden 2. vs. New England
Chris Johnson vs. 3. Cleveland
Maurice Jones-Drew 4. vs. New Orleans
Matt Forte vs. 5. Carolina
LeSean McCoy vs. 6. San Francisco
Michael Turner vs. 7. Seattle
LeGarrette Blount 8. vs. Indianapolis
Fred Jackson vs. 9. Cincinati
Chris Johnson vs. 10. Cleveland
Wide Receivers: Mike Wallace is a monster. In the last six games,
including last season, the speed-ster has racked up at least 100 yards in each game. Wes Welker has been a Point Per Reception (PPR) machine this year and Chad Ochocinco has been the oppo-site. Kenny Britt is likely out for the season, so get him out of your lineup.
Andre Johnson vs. 1. Pittsburg
Larry Fitzgerald vs. 2. New York Giants
Mike Wallace vs. 3. Houston
Calvin Johnson vs. 4. Dallas
Greg Jennings vs. 5. Denver
Roddy White vs. 6. Seattle
Vincent Jackson vs. 7. Miami
Brandon Marshall 8. vs. San Diego
Hakeem Nicks vs. 9. Arizona
Wes Welker vs. 10. Oakland
Tight Ends: Tom Brady loves his tight ends this year as he targets them often in the
red zone. Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez are both good options when healthy. Vernon Davis finally woke up in Week 3 with a 100-yard performance. Jer-michael Finley did the same with three touchdowns against the ri-val Bears.
Jason Witten vs. 1. Detroit
Jermichael Finley 2. vs. Denver
Antonio Gates vs. 3. Miami
Tony Gonzalez vs. 4. Seattle
Rob Gronkowski vs. 5. Oakland
Dallas Clark vs. 6. Tampa Bay
Jimmy Graham vs. 7. Jacksonville
Vernon Davis vs. 8. Philadelphia
Fred Davis vs. St. 9. Louis
Kellen Winslow vs. 10. Indianapolis
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I knew Nicole could finish that match off.”
Shavlik teamed with junior April Schmitz for an 8-6 win at No. 1 doubles.
“They can compete with and beat anybody in our conference,” Carr said. “I would definitely not be surprised —and I don’t think too many people would be sur-prised in our conference—if they ended up winning the conference tournament for doubles. When they’re volleying the ball well, and when they’re just playing smart doubles tennis, they’re very fun to watch.”
Schmitz lost 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2 singles, and sophomore No. 4, Brittany Jurek, also dropped a three-setter, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
“I think if April found out she had to play the same girl in the conference tournament, she’d welcome it with open arms and be excited to play her again, because she knows, and I know, she can beat that girl,” said Carr.
“Brittany is just so athletic, and she gets to everything. She keeps the ball in play. She makes the opponent make the mistake in matches. It can be frustrating for
opponents,” he said.Lakeland got its other two
points by default, as the Falcons only had enough available girls to play in seven of the nine matches.
Against Edgewood Sept. 25, no Muskie scored more than two points in a match.
“Sunday we got smoked. I think it was a letdown that we lost the match at Concordia. We knew we came so close to beat-ing them, and I think we were just worn out,” Carr said. “Fatigue may have had a little bit to do with it.”
Carr said his team has started to play with more confidence.
“I think in a lot of the matches that we played earlier in the sea-son, a lot of the girls wish they could play those teams again. I think they finally have a bit of energy and excitement and confi-dence going into every match. The girls know we can compete in ev-ery match now. They didn’t have that three weeks ago,” he said.
Lakeland played MSOE Sept. 27 and will play in the Northern Athletics Conference tournament Oct. 8-9 in Madison.
Women’s soccer comes up short
Sophomore Monica Santelli scored her fourth goal of the season, but the Lakeland College women’s
soccer team came up short in a 3-1 loss to Benedictine University Saturday af-ternoon in Lisle, Ill.
Santelli got the Muskies on the board first in the 19th minute of action. Benedictine answered off a corner kick in the 31st minute to tie the game at one. The Eagles s t r u c k again in the 44th min-ute to take a 2-1 lead at halftime.
B e n e -d i c t i n e w o u l d strike again in the 74th minute to earn the N o r t h e r n A t h l e t i c s Conference victory.
“ W e played very well and the team is really start-ing to come together,” said head coach Tony Pierce. “We scored the first goal, but then we got away from what we’ve been successful with. In the second half we created chances, but unfortunately they scored late in the game. The girls are playing good soccer; we just have to continue playing well.”
Sophomore goalkeeper Ashley Sar-backer recorded six saves as she faced 15 shots.
The Lakeland College women’s soccer team suffered a 5-1 loss to Con-
cordia University Wisconsin in the team’s Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) home opener Tuesday afternoon at Muskie Field.
Lakeland jumped on a dormant Con-cordia Wisconsin as senior forward Lind-say Rogers got the Muskies on the board first in the fourth minute of play. Senior midfielder Dana Schmidt volleyed the ball to Rogers off of Concordia’s goal kick.
R o g e r s was able to beat a couple of Falcon d e f e n d -ers and p l a c e d the ball in the near post to make it a 1-0 game.
T h e M u s k -ies’ lead d i d n ’ t last long as the F a l c o n s c a p i t a l -ized on a defensive
mistake in the eighth minute of action. Concordia Wisconsin struck again at the 26:52 and 7:33 mark to go up 3-1 at half.
The Falcons capped two more goals in the second half for a convincing NAC victory and outshot Lakeland 30-8.
Sophomore goalkeeper Ashley Sar-backer recorded 13 saves for the game.
On Sept. 28 they hosted Beloit Col-lege in a non-conference match. Their next match is set for Oct. 1 as they take on Concordia University Chicago at Muskie Field with a 3 p.m. start time.
Muskies still fishing for wins
After becoming the pro-gram’s first team to win three or more matches
since 2003, with a handy 6-3 win against Alverno Sept. 21, the Lake-land women’s tennis team lost a pair of matches to the conference’s two top teams last weekend.
The women lost a 5-4 heart-breaker to an undefeated Concor-dia University Wisconsin squad in Mequon Sept. 24 but were thumped 9-0 by Edgewood in Madison the next day.
Against Concordia Wiscon-sin, senior No. 1 singles player Nicole Shavlik won a first set tie-break 8-6 before dominating the second set 6-1.
“I told Nicole, ‘Don’t let up. If we can break her serve in the very first game, mentally, the other girl’s going to be done,’” said Women’s Tennis Coach Casey Carr. “Once she got that first break in the second set, the match was done. I didn’t even have to watch too many other points. I was more focused on other points because April Schmitz serves a ball against her opponent from MSOE at home Sept. 27.
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Above: Senior captain Dana Schmidt tries to get past two defenders last season.
After 110 minutes of play, the Lakeland College men’s soccer team and the Edge-
wood College men’s soccer team couldn’t capitalize in a scoreless Northern Athletics Conference tie Tuesday evening.
The Muskies (3-2-3, 1-0-2 NAC) were led by their goal-sav-ing defense behind junior goal-keeper Alex Piekarski. Piekarski recorded eight saves for the game and registered his third shutout of the season.
The Eagles and the Muskies each had prime opportunities to score in overtime, however both defenses wouldn’t break. Lake-land outshot Edgewood 20-17.
Lakeland returns to NAC ac-tion as they host Concordia Uni-versity Chicago on Oct. 1 at 3 p.m.
Above: Senior captain Adam Benson battles for the ball against rival University of Chicago. Below : Junior goalkeeperAlex Piekarski kicks a goal kick in the game against Edgewood College.
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The Lakeland football team fell to Hope College 28-14 on Sept. 24. This is their
sixth straight home opener loss since 2005.
Starting off strong in the first half the Muskies were looking good, leading 14-7 heading into halftime. However, the Dutchmen would not be put down, and in the second half they came to life, scor-ing 21 unanswered points to steal the win.
Hope took an early lead with an 88-yard, 12-play drive. Lake-land would go on to fumble deep inside Hope territory, giving the ball back to the Dutchmen.
Lakeland’s defense took to the field and forced a three-and-out. Following Hope’s punt, Lake-land’s sophomore quarterback Dy-lan Van Straten kept the ball on an option for a 39-yard touchdown to even the game.
It would be Van Straten who would score again on a run from two yards out and then thrown to senior wide receiver Justin Groe-neveld for the two point conver-sion.
In the second half the Musk-ies were shut out while Hope got its ground game going.
The Muskies finished with a season high 273 yards of offense, 159 rushing and 114 passing. Van Straten played well, completing 3 of 6 passes for 56 yards and rushing seven times for 57 yards and two touchdowns. Hope adjusted itself at half-time and Van Straten fin-ished the game going 6 of 14 passing for 114 yards and one interception, while rushing 18 times for 51 yards.
The sophomore quar-terback was hurt early in the fourth quarter after be-ing hit from behind while trying to complete a shovel pass. He was taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons. His status for next weekend is uncertain.
Freshman Tarrel Jackson led the Muskies on the ground with 19 carries and 76 yards rushing while Groeneveld caught three passes for a team high of 61 yards receiving.
The defense played well, al-lowing 286 total yards, 156 rush-ing and 130 passing. Junior Bruce Romagnoli led the Muskies with 17 tackles and two sacks on the game. Senior Tony Faller added 11 tackles, including one for a loss.
Head coach Kevin Doherty said, “We learn from our mistakes.
I was happy to get the monkey off our back, being in the end zone twice. Statistics for both teams I thought were pretty evenly matched, and it was nice to see our young kids learn throughout the game. Now it is just a matter of finishing and learning how to do that.”
The Muskies will look to for their first win this Saturday, Oct. 1, when they take on Aurora Uni-versity as they begin Northern Athletics Conference play. The game will begin at 1 p.m. at Taylor Memorial Field.
Sixth straight home opener lossFootball team can’t hold on after strong first halfBy Nicole GeurtsFeatures [email protected]
The Lakeland College wom-en’s volleyball team went 1-2 this past weekend at
the Red Hawk Invitational at Ri-pon College.
The Muskies fell in their first two matches of the tournament to St. Mary’s College, 3-2 (25-23, 25-21, 22-25, 19-25, 10-15), and Coe College, 3-0 (16-25, 14-25, 20-25). In their final match, they bounced back to beat host Ripon, 3-0 (25-11, 25-18, 25-19).
“We played well the first two sets against St. Mary’s,” said head coach Jon Staabs. “We let them back in the game, allowed them to gain confidence and we couldn’t close it out. Against Coe we strug-gled to find a rhythm and Brittany [Reindl] was off. In the third set, I played Melissa [Christiansen] at setter and Catherine [Benzie] at outside. They provided us with some energy and a nice rhythm on offense. Against Ripon, I contin-ued to use Melissa at setter and Catherine played outside. We played a clean game and got into a nice rhythm. Catherine provided us with a spark off the bench and Melissa was giving our hitters a good, hittable ball every time.”
Sophomore middle hitter Amanda Dillman (Sheboygan, Wis.) directed the Muskies in the right direction with 29 kills, five service aces, and was tied for the team lead with eight blocks. Mid-dle blocker, senior Allison Davis (Sheboygan, Wis.) was titled to
the all-tournament team with 25 kills, two service aces, and seven blocks.
Outside sophomore Katie Freitag (Kiel, Wis.) was active on offense and defense as she had 21 kills, four service aces, eight blocks, and led the team with 40 digs. Freshman outsider Catherine Benzie (Iron Mountain, Mich.) also played exceptional, posting ten kills and 13 digs in just two matches.
“As a team we did very well in improving on our tournament play which was good. We also beat Ripon in three sets on their own home court so that was an awe-some feeling and win for us. Hope-fully as the season progresses we can continue to develop as an even better team,” Benzie said after the victory Saturday.
Sophomore setters Reindl (Kenosha, Wis.) and Christiansen (Valders, Wis.) had 48 and 49 as-sists respectively, with Christans-en adding 24 digs and one block in three matches.
The Muskies played the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Marathon County on the first day of com-petition in an exhibition match. Lakeland won in three sets, but per NCAA regulations the win and the stats do not count.
The lady muskies vol-leyball team will play with home court advantage on Fri-day, Sept. 30 against Aurora University at 7 p.m.
Volleyball battles at Ripon
Sophomore quarterback Dylan Van Straten was named the Northern Athletics Conference Offensive Player of the Week for his Sept. 24 performance against Hope College.
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