Grand Valley State University Women's Basketball

Mike Williams finished his 10th season as the head coach of the Grand Valley State women’s basketball team after the 2024-25 season. In his 10 years at the helm of the Laker program, he has amassed a 278-49 (.850) overall record and a 169-27 (.862) record in the GLIAC. He has led the Lakers to five GLIAC regular season titles, three GLIAC Tournament titles, three Midwest Regional titles, and the 2024-25 National Championship. GVSU has won at least one game in the NCAA Division II National Tournament in nine out of 10 seasons since Williams took the reins of the program, posting a record of 22-8 in the NCAA Tournament. In 2023-24, Williams became the program's all-time winningest coach and won the 400th game of his collegiate coaching career.   In his time in Allendale, Williams has coached Laker athletes to 49 All-GLIAC selections – including 20 First Team All-GLIAC choices and 27 All-GLIAC Defensive Team honorees. Additionally, Williams coached forward Rylie Bisballe to the 2023-24 GLIAC player of the year, becoming the first Laker to earn the honor since center Cassidy Boensch went back-to-back during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns. Boensch became the first Laker since Niki Reams in 2006 to bring the award to Allendale. Williams has earned GLIAC Coach of the Year on five occasions, winning in 2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, and 2024-25.   At the national level, Rylie Bisballe was named All-American by the WBCA and D2CCA in both 2023-24 and 2024-25, becoming the third player under Williams to earn that distinction. Emily Spitzley became the second player to earn All-American honors in 2022-23, as she was named WBCA Honorable Mention All-American. Boensch was the first Laker under Williams to be named to an all-American team, earning D2CCA Second Team All-American honors during the 2019-20 season and honorable mention status with both the WBCA and the D2CCA at the end of the 2018-19 campaign. The 2024-25 season was a historic season for the Lakers. They posted a 38-2 overall record and went 19-1 in the GLIAC. They swept both the GLIAC regular season and Tournament Championships, earning the number one seed and the right to host the Midwest Regional Championship. For the third time under Williams, the Lakers claimed the regional title, advancing to the Elite Eight in Pittsburgh. There they Lakers beat Gannon, Pittsburg State, and CSUDH to claim the second National Championship in program history. GVSU led the country in bench points per game and scoring margin, while ranking in the top-10 in scoring offense, field goal percentage, assist-to-turnover ratio, assists per game, turnover margin, rebound margin, scoring defense, steals per game, and three-pointers per game. Five Lakers earned All-Conference honors, with Rylie Bisballe being named the league's Player and Defensive Player of the Year. MacKenzie Bisballe was the league's Freshman of the Year, with Abrie Cabana, Nicole Kamin, and Ellie Droste also earning honors. In addition to being named the GLIAC Coach of the Year, Williams was recognized by the WBCA as the Division II National Coach of the Year.  In the 2023-24 season, the Lakers went 31-3 overall and 17-1 in league play to take the regular season and conference championships. Earning the top seed in the Midwest Regional, the Lakers advanced to the regional championship game. Four Lakers earned All-GLIAC honors, with Rylie Bisballe named GLIAC Player of the Year. Nicole Kamin, Paige Vanstee, and Hadley Miller also earned distinctions. The Lakers were as high as number one in the WBCA poll, finishing the year at number nine.  Williams again led the Lakers to a 31-3 record in 2022-23, winning the GLIAC regular season and conference tournament and making a run to the Midwest Regional Championship game. During the season, he became just the second coach in program history to surpass 200 wins at the helm of the Lakers. The Lakers made their second NCAA DII Final Four Appearance in 2021-22, as Williams led them to a 31-3 record and a regular season GLIAC championship, and a run through the tournament all the way to the Final Four.  The 2020-21 season was a shortened GLIAC-only schedule, but the Lakers finished 14-4 in the regular season and won the GLIAC South Division crown. GVSU earned a sixth straight NCAA Tournament bid despite beginning the season with no players who had started a game in a Laker uniform. Emily Spitzley and Hannah Kulas emerged from a reserve role to All-GLIAC First Team players under the guidance of Coach Williams.  Williams fifth season as head coach ended abruptly due to COVID-19. The team was the #4 seed in the NCAA Tournament (Midwest Regional), but after busing all the way to Springfield, Missouri, the team got the news that the tournament was canceled. The Lakers finished the season 28-3 overall and 18-2 in GLIAC play, while ranking as high as #3 in the WBCA Top-25. The NCAA Tournament berth would mark the fifth straight season the Lakers earned the right to compete in the Big Dance. The four-year seniors on the team (Jenai LaPorte, Jenn DeBoer, Megan Belke, Cassidy Boensch, Victoria Hedemark, and Maddie Dailey) boasted a record of 107-22.  In 2018-19, the season came to a close with yet another deep run into the postseason as they finished the year with a 29-4 overall record and a 19-1 mark in conference play. After taking home the GLIAC Regular Season title, the Lakers fell in the second round of the conference tournament to Northern Michigan. Despite the early exit from the GLIAC Tournament, the Lakers earned their fourth straight bid into the NCAA Division II Tournament where they took down Truman State (89-64) and #20 Lewis (72-55) before falling to No. 1-nationally ranked Drury (51-44). It was the second NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Championship game the Lakers have played in under Williams.   The 2017-18 season saw GVSU post a 26-7 overall record – which is tied for the third most wins in program history – and a 16-4 mark in conference play. The Lakers made their third straight trip to the GLIAC Tournament Final and the NCAA DII Midwest Region Tournament under Williams, while putting five players on the All-GLIAC Team. It was the fourth straight 20+ win season for the Lakers – and third under Williams – which sets a new program record for 20+ win seasons in a row.   The Lakers posted a 24-8 overall record and a 16-5 conference record in 2016-17, making their second straight and 13th overall NCAA Tournament appearance. The Lakers also made their second straight GLIAC Tournament final game, beating Northwood and Saginaw Valley State in the first two rounds before falling to #1 Ashland. At the end of the regular season, five Lakers were named to All-GLIAC teams.   GVSU closed out its 2015-16 season with a 26-10 overall record and a 15-7 mark in conference play, capped off with its first trip to the NCAA DII Final Four since they won the National Championship in 2005-06. After falling in the GLIAC Tournament final, the Lakers made an improbable run to the Final Four starting with an NCAA Midwest Region Championship as the seven seed. The Lakers took down #6-nationally ranked Lewis, Saginaw Valley State, and #14-nationally ranked Drury to punch their ticket to the Elite Eight. GVSU was one of just four teams left in the tournament after beating #19 Pittsburg State before finally falling to #4 Alaska Anchorage. Mike Williams was named the seventh Grand Valley State women's basketball head coach on June 29, 2015. This is the second stint for Williams at GVSU, as he was an assistant coach with the Lakers from the 2002-03 to 2006-07 seasons, which included winning the 2005-06 Division II National Championship. Williams spent the past four seasons as the head coach at Davenport, where he compiled an outstanding 130-11 (.922) overall record. During each of his final three seasons at the helm of the Panther program, Williams was named the WHAC (Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference) Coach of the Year. In 2014-15, when Davenport owned a 32-1 record, he also earned WBCA Region Coach of the Year honors. The Panthers advanced to the NAIA National Tournament in each of Williams' four seasons, including a pair of NAIA Final Four berths and a national championship game appearance. The 2014-15 team led the country in fewest points per game allowed (48.3) and scoring margin (+31.5), while ranking second in opponents field goal percentage (.324). In 2013-14, Williams guided Davenport to a 34-2 record and a national semifinal appearance, one season after the Panthers finished 34-3 and advanced to the national championship game. DU also earned an NAIA Sweet Sixteen appearance in Williams' first season of 2011-12, when the team went 30-5. Before becoming the head coach at Davenport, Williams spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Michigan under then-head coach Kevin Borseth. The Wolverines tallied a 66-61 (.520) overall record in those four seasons, including a third place finish in 2010-11.  During his first stint in Allendale on the GVSU coaching staff, Williams was the top assistant under then-head coach Dawn Plitzuweit for five years. In four of those five seasons, the Lakers advanced to the NCAA Tournament. The 2005-06 Lakers finished the year with a school-best 33-3 record and won the Division II National Championship with a 58-52 championship game victory over American International. That championship win was the 22nd in a school-record 26-game winning streak, which carried into the early portion of the 2006-07 season. The 2004-05 team finished the year with a 28-6 mark and the first-ever NCAA Elite Eight berth in program history. In Williams' five years on the Laker bench, Grand Valley State won three GLIAC regular season titles, a pair of conference tournament championships, and two Midwest Region crowns. The Lakers went 117-39 (.750) in those five seasons, with a 68-22 (.756) mark in GLIAC action. He was responsible for starting the women's basketball program at Finlandia (NCAA Division III) in Hancock, Mich. In his three seasons as head coach (1999-2000 to 2001-02), the team owned a 44-33 (.571) record. Williams coached for a number of years at the high school level, where he was head coach of the girls varsity team at Hancock High School from 1989 to 2000. Those teams recorded a 207-51 (.802) mark, winning eight district championships and four regional titles. For five seasons, he was also the head coach of the varsity boys team at Hancock, owning a 72-36 (.667) record. He began his coaching career at Ironwood High School, as head coach of the girls varsity team in 1986. A few years later, Williams moved to the collegiate ranks, serving as an assistant coach during the 1988-89 season with Borseth at Michigan Tech. The Huskies went 16-11 in Williams' only season in Houghton. Originally from Antigo, Wis., Williams graduated from Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in physical education and a minor in health education. Mike and his wife, Amanda, have four children – sons Isaiah, Bobby, and Titus and daughter Jacoba.   The Mike Williams File:    SEASON RECORD GLIAC NOTES 2024-25   38-2 19-1 - NCAA National Champions - Midwest Region Champions - GLIAC Regular Season Champion - GLIAC Tournament Champions - GLIAC Coach of the Year - WBCA National Coach of the Year 2023-24 31-3 17-1 -Midwest Regional Championship Game Appearance -GLIAC Regular Season Champions -GLIAC Tournament Champions -GLIAC Coach of the Year 2022-23 31-3 17-1 -Midwest Regional Championship Game Appearance -GLIAC Regular Season Champions -GLIAC Tournament Champions -GLIAC Coach of the Year 2021-22 31-3 18-1 -NCAA Final Four Appearance - Midwest Region Champion - GLIAC Regular Season Champion -GLIAC Coach of the Year 2020-21 14-6 14-4 - GLIAC South Division Champions - 6th Straight NCAA Tournament Appearance 2019-20 28-3 18-2 -Earned #4 seed in Midwest Region, but the NCAA Tournament was canceled due to COVID-19 - GLIAC Tournament Finalist -GLIAC Coach of the Year 2018-19 29-4 19-1 - Midwest Region Finalist (Runner-up) - GLIAC Regular Season Champion 2017-18 26-7 16-4 - Midwest Region Semifinalist - GLIAC Tournament Finalist 2016-17 24-8 16-5 - Midwest Region Semifinalist - GLIAC Tournament Finalist 2015-16 26-10 15-7 - Midwest Region Champion - NCAA Final Four Appearance - GLIAC Tournament Finalist TOTAL 278-49 (.850) 169-27 (.862) - 1x National Champion - 7x GLIAC Tournament Finalist - 3x GLIAC Tournament Championship - 5x Midwest Region Finalist - 3x Midwest Region Championship - 3x NCAA Final Four Appearance - 5x GLIAC Regular Season Championship - 5x GLIAC Coach of the Year - 1x WBCA National Coach of the Year

Phil Sayers is in his 14th season with the Grand Valley State women's basketball program. After spending the first three seasons as an assistant coach, Sayers was promoted to Associate Head Coach shortly after the 2014-15 campaign. Sayers is responsible for guard development, offensive breakdowns, and game preparation. He also serves as the team's recruiting coordinator. The 2024-25 season was a historic season for the Lakers. They posted a 38-2 overall record and went 19-1 in the GLIAC. They swept both the GLIAC regular season and Tournament Championships. Once in the NCAA Tournament, the Lakers won the Regional crown, then the second National Championship in program history. GVSU led the country in bench points per game and scoring margin, while ranking in the top-10 in scoring offense, field goal percentage, assist-to-turnover ratio, assists per game, turnover margin, rebound margin, scoring defense, steals per game, and three-pointers per game. Five Lakers earned All-Conference honors, with Rylie Bisballe being named the league's Player and Defensive Player of the Year. MacKenzie Bisballe was the league's Freshman of the Year, with Abrie Cabana, Nicole Kamin, and Ellie Droste also earning honors. Sayers helped lead the offense that set a new program record by averaging 83 points per game. He was named the WBCA Division II National Assistant Coach of the Year.  During the 2023-24 year, GVSU went 31-3 and won the GLIAC regular season and conference championships to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the ninth consecutive season. Under Sayers, the Laker offense scored over 73 points per game and ranked in the top-20 nationally in field goal percentage. They were also top-15 in both fewest turnovers per game and assist-to-turnover ratio. Five Lakers were named All-GLIAC, with Rylie Bisballe named Player of the Year, as well as All-American honors. The 2022-23 season saw the Lakers sweep the GLIAC regular season and conference tournament titles, achieving a 31-3 record and an eighth straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Sayers guided an offense that scored over 75 points per game and was top 15 in the nation in both field goal percentage and three point percentage. Five players earned GLIAC All-Conference honors, with guard Emily Spitzley earning All-American and All-Region honors as well. During the 2021-22 season, GVSU went 31-3, earning a seventh consecutive bid to the NCAA Tournament where they made a run to the Final Four. GVSU won the GLIAC regular season title and the Midwest Regional title. Five Lakers were named to the GLIAC All-Conference teams, with Emily Spitzley, Ellie Droste, and Rylie Bisballe all earning First-Team honors.  The 2020-21 season was a shortened GLIAC-only schedule, but the Lakers finished 14-4 in the regular season and won the GLIAC South Division crown. GVSU earned a sixth straight NCAA Tournament bid despite beginning the season with no players who had started a game in a Laker uniform. Emily Spitzley and Hannah Kulas emerged from a reserve role to All-GLIAC First Team players under the guidance of Coach Sayers.  The 2019-20 season saw the Lakers make their fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance, however due to COVID-19, the tournament was canceled. GVSU finished 28-3 on the season and was ranked as high as third in the WBCA Top-25 poll. Senior Cassidy Boensch finished her career as a D2CCA Second Team All-American, back-to-back GLIAC Player of the Year, and back-to-back D2CCA First Team All-Midwest Region. Under Sayers guidance, the Au. Gres, Mich. native went from seeing 10 minutes per game as a freshman, to an All-American. Senior guard Jenn DeBoer earned her second straight All-GLIAC First Team honor, while also becoming the 26th player in program history to surpass the 1,000 point mark. Senior guard Victoria Hedemark, who was a two-time All-GLIAC Defensive Team honoree, also contributed significantly on the offensive end, setting the single-season record for three-point percentage (45.6%) in the school's history. Senior forward Maddie Dailey also earned All-GLIAC First Team honors, improving upon her All-GLIAC Second Team honor the previous season. The Hastings, Mich. native averaged 12.3 pts and 5.5 reb per game.  In 2018-19, GVSU won their first GLIAC Regular Season Title since 2006-07 after completing the GLIAC season with a 19-1 record and finishing the season 29-4 overall. The Lakers made their fourth straight NCAA Tournament appearance and fell to #1 and undefeated Drury, 51-44, in the Midwest Regional Championship game. Cassidy Boesnch was named GLIAC Player of the Year, averaging a double-double (19.6 pts, 11.6 reb), while also being named D2CCA All-Midwest Region First Team and WBCA All-American Honorable Mention. Boensch became the 25th player in program history to surpass the 1,000 point mark. Sayers also helped junior guard Jenn DeBoer earn All-GLIAC First Team and D2CCA All-Midwest Region Second Team honors after averaging 13.9 pts including 58 made three pointers. DeBoer also finished the season with the third highest free-throw percentage in the program's history, shooting 88.9% from the line.  The 2017-18 season resulted in another NCAA Tournament appearance for the Lakers, finishing with a 26-7 record, and the emergence of sophomore Cassidy Boensch. Under Sayers guidance, Boensch went from a role player to one of the conference's best.. The Au. Gres, Mich. native shot 66.0% from the field, which ranked third in DII, and led the team in scoring (13.1) and rebounding (7.1). Boensch also earned four GLIAC Player of the Week honors, a USBWA National Player of the Week award, All-GLIAC Tournament Team, and Midwest Regional Tournament Team. Junior forward Taylor Parmley earned All-GLIAC First Team honors after averaging 11.9 points per game, 5.8 rebounds per game, and shot 48.6% from the field.  In 2016-17, the Lakers made their second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, finishing the season 24-8. GVSU had a an extremely balanced scoring attack with five players averaging at least 8.9 points per game, led by senior Janae Langs 10.5 points per game, who also earned All-GLIAC First Team honors and was named the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament Team. Senior Piper Tucker became the 24th player in the program's history to surpass the 1,000 point mark en route to earning All-GLIAC Second Team laurels. Tucker shot 84.2% from the charity stripe, while freshman Jenn DeBoer connected on 88.9% at the line.  With Sayers running the offense during the 2015-16 campaign, the Lakers had the fourth highest scoring offense in the GLIAC, averaging 71.6 points per game on their way to a second consecutive 20+ win season. Additionally, the Lakers were fifth in the conference in field goal percentage (43.3) and third in three-point percentage (37 percent) while shooting a GLIAC high 878 three point attempts and making a conference best 325 of them, which was the third highest total in all of Division II women’s basketball.   Under Sayers’ offense, junior forward Kayla Dawson had a breakout season, averaging 14.6 points per game and becoming the 23rd Laker in program history to eclipse the 1,000 career points plateau. Dawson was also named an All-GLIAC First Team selection while classmate Piper Tucker earned Second Team honors. Under Sayers, forwards Lindsay Baker and Bailey Cairnduff had the most and third most made three pointers in a single season in program history, respectively, as Baker finished with 77, eclipsing the previous high of 73, and Cairnduff netted 70 to take third on the list. Baker also finished with the second highest three point shooting percentage for a season (45 %) in program history. In 2014-15, GVSU's improved offense helped the program post its first 20-win campaign since the 2010-11 season. As a team, the Lakers averaged 69.2 points per game, their highest scoring average since the 2005-06 campaign. Under Sayers' tutelage, Kayla Dawson developed into an All-GLIAC Second Team honoree, while junior guard Brionna Barnett earned an All-GLIAC First Team laurel. Additionally, Kat LaPrairie departed as GVSU's all-time leader in 3-point field goal percentage (40.4) after working with Sayers for three seasons. In 2013-14, Sayers helped Dani Crandall earn All-GLIAC First Team honors. Additionally, Crandall was one of only 11 Division II players to average 14 points, six rebounds, two assists per game and shoot at least 50 percent from the field. Kayla Dawson also enjoyed a solid freshman season under Sayers' tutelage. In 25 appearances, including starts in the final 13 games, she averaged 9.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. Her 121 free throw attempts and 75.2 percentage at the charity stripe ranked second on the team. Dawson's breakout performance came against Lake Superior State (Jan. 23), when she scored 24 points and collected 11 rebounds. Crandall and Dawson each finished with a team-high four double-doubles. As a team, GVSU improved its shooting from three-point range, making 32.9 percent of its attempts from beyond the arc compared to 30.6 percent in 2012-13. In his first year with the Lakers, Sayers raised the shooting percentage of the team's guards. This enabled GVSU to average eight points per game more than it did in 2011-12. The Lakers also made 29 more three-point field goals in Sayers' first season than they did the year before. One of the most drastic individual changes were Dani Crandall's shooting percentage jumping from 29 percent to 44 percent. Sayer also helped Kat LaPrairie record the third-highest single-season three-point field goal percentage in GVSU history (43.4 percent). Moreover, Briauna Taylor earned All-GLIAC First Team and GLIAC All-Defensive Team laurels with a team-high 15.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game.  He came to the Lakers after four years as an assistant coach on the Western Michigan women's basketball staff. Sayers helped Ebony Cleary finish her career as a Bronco ranked 15th all-time in scoring, 10th in career field goal percentage and earn All-Mid-American Conference (MAC) honors. Sayers also has experience working as the director of operations for the WMU men's program. Prior to WMU, Sayers served as the assistant coach for the women's basketball program at Kalamazoo College from 2006-07, following a very successful three-year run as the head girls' basketball coach at Climax-Scotts High School (2004-06). He led Climax-Scotts to a 64-7 record with three Southern Central Athletic Association championships, two district championships and an appearance in the 2004 regional finals. He was a three-time finalist for the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan Class D Coach of the Year after guiding the Panthers to 57-straight conference victories and extending the school's streak to 90 wins. Sayers helped two players earn Class D First Team All-State honors and five of his former players are currently playing college basketball. Sayers was a varsity boys' basketball assistant for two years (2004-06) at Climax-Scotts, including a trip to the regional finals in 2006, and was an assistant junior varsity baseball coach for one season. A native of Eastpointe, Mich., Sayers was a three-year varsity baseball player at East Detroit High School and was the freshman basketball coach as a senior. He went on to Grand Valley State, where he earned a bachelor's degree in sports pedagogy in 2002 and another bachelor's degree in history and physical education in 2006. Sayers married the former Liz Raifsnider in December of 2002 and the couple has three daughters, Grace, Anna, and Lily.

Amanda Parker was named Assistant Coach on June 17, 2021. She is responsible for post player development, game preperation, and opponent scouting. The 2024-25 season was a historic season for the Lakers. They posted a 38-2 overall record and went 19-1 in the GLIAC. They swept both the GLIAC regular season and Tournament Championships. Once in the NCAA Tournament, the Lakers won the Regional crown, then the second National Championship in program history. GVSU led the country in bench points per game and scoring margin, while ranking in the top-10 in scoring offense, field goal percentage, assist-to-turnover ratio, assists per game, turnover margin, rebound margin, scoring defense, steals per game, and three-pointers per game. Under her tuteledge, Rylie Bisballe was an All-American for the second straight season, and MacKenzie Bisballe was the GLIAC Freshman of the Year.  In the 2023-24 campaign, GVSU once again won the GLIAC regular season and tournament titles, earning the top seed in the Midwest Region for the NCAA Tournament. Parker helped develop Rylie Bisballe into the GLIAC Player and Defensive Player of the Year, as well as an honorable-mention All-American. Throughout the year, the Lakers ranked as the second-best scoring defense in the nation, allowing just 49.2 points per game and had the top rebounding margin at 11.6. The 2022-23 season saw the Lakers sweep the GLIAC regular season and conference tournament titles, achieving a 31-3 record and an eighth straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Parker helped coach the Lakers to the third best scoring defense in the country and one of the best rebounding teams in the nation. Emily Spitzley, Ellie Droste, Rylie Bisballe, Hannah Kulas, and Hadley Miller all earned GLIAC All-Conference honors, with Spitzley also earning All-Region and All-American honors. In her first season with the Lakers, GVSU went 31-3, earning a seventh consecutive bid to the NCAA Tournament where they made a run to the Final Four. GVSU won the GLIAC regular season title and the Midwest Regional title. Five Lakers were named to the GLIAC All-Conference teams, with Emily Spitzley, Ellie Droste, and Rylie Bisballe all earning First-Team honors.  Parker comes to Allendale from Hillsdale College where she spent the 2020-21 season as an assistant coach for the women's basketball team. Prior to Hillsdale, Parker was the head women's basketball coach at Dominican University (DIII) in River Forest, Illinois where she guided the Stars to a 36-18 record in two seasons including a pair of NACC Tournament appearances.   The Muskegon, Mich. native began her collegiate coaching career in her hometown as the head women's basketball coach at Muskegon Community College where she led the Jayhawks to a 63-24 record in three seasons. She was named Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM) Coach of the Year in 2017 and Michigan Community College Athletic Association Coach of the Year in 2018. Parker also founded the Lakeshore Lady Elite AAU Basketball program and spent two seasons each as an assistant coach at Reeths-Puffer High School and Pickerington Central High School in Ohio.   A graduate of Mona Shores High School, Parker starred as a multi-sport athlete for the Sailors before heading to Western Michigan University where she was a four-year letter winner and three-year starter on the women's basketball team. As a Bronco, Parker finished in the top 10 all-time (WMU History) in single season three-point field goal percentage (43.1%), career three-point field goal percentage (35.4%), and career blocks (66).   Parker earned a B.S in Exercise Science from WMU and is currently pursuing her Master's Degree in Coaching Sport Performance at WMU.