Entrepreneurs - Grove City College

Women’s Soccer
The women’s soccer team
celebrated its 21st season
of intercollegiate competition
by returning 21 letterwinners
for the 2012 campaign. The
Wolverines return their leading
scorer from 2011 in junior
forward Sam Weber, who netted
seven goals last year.
Also back is senior midfielder
Grace Rieman, an All-Great
Lakes Region performer in 2011.
Second Team All-PAC honorees
Sarah Cessar and Jessica Heck
each returned for their junior
season as well.
Volleyball
Coming off a 16-15 mark
last season, Grove City
College returned several key
contributors as the Wolverines
look to return to the top of the
conference in 2012.
Senior Elisabeth Willits is
the team’s lone fourth-year
player while juniors Ashley
Branch, Shelby Mander and Tara
Skinner each return as two-year
letterwinners. Grove City also
welcomed back sophomores
Dalaney Algiere and Frances
Trenta, both of whom played
extensively as rookies in 2011.
Women’s Cross Country
The Grove City College
women’s cross country
team entered the 2012 season
in prime position to maintain
its spot among the region’s elite
while also challenging for the
team’s second trip to the NCAA
Division III Championships in a
three-year span.
Grove City returned 13
letterwinners from a squad
that captured its 23rd straight
Presidents’ Athletic Conference
title in 2011 and concluded the
season with a strong fifth-place
finish at the NCAA Mideast
Championships.
Among the Wolverines’
returnees are three-time All-
Mideast Region performer Ella
Smith, 2009 PAC medalist Sara
Fisher and CoSIDA Academic
All-American Mary Kate Breese.
Those three seniors are part of a
10-runner senior class that is one
of the largest and most talented
in program history.
Men’s Cross Country
The Wolverines fielded one
of the deepest and most
experienced squads in recent
memory as the Wolverines
look to return to the top of the
Presidents’ Athletic Conference
in 2012.
The Wolverines featured more
than a dozen upperclassmen in
the lineup this autumn. Of that
veteran group, five earned All-
PAC recognition during the
2011 season.
Seniors Wesley Coopersmith
and Tim Coyle both earned All-
PAC Honorable Mention in 2011
and were joined by four other
seniors who have earned multiple
letters. Ben Henderson, Daniel
Landskroener, Francis Ridge and
Josiah Tobin all returned for their
final season. Ridge competed
on Grove City’s conference and
regional championships roster
in 2010.
Fall 2012
Wolverine star hopes to make big impact in
the marketplace
Soccer can push athletes to the limit; nobody knows this better
than senior Wolverine standout Josh Kern, a First-Team
Presidents’ Athletic Conference selection in 2011 and one of the
top defenders in the region. But Kern believes it is this hard work
that has prepared him for life as an entrepreneur.
“Startups can require many hours of diligent work, and many
times, the results may not be encouraging,” Kern said. “The mental
toughness developed from my soccer experiences will drive me
forward when times are tough.”
As a defender, Kern never wants to be on his heels, allowing the
offense to dictate the game. As an entrepreneur, he has adopted
this same philosophy, with a desire to inspire positive change that
will benefit the greater community.
“Not only do I want to create and develop businesses that
provide products and services to help the poor, I want to create job
opportunities for them,” Kern said. “An entrepreneur develops and
implements creative solutions to satisfy unmet needs and wants in
the market, even in the face of great risk.”
Kern is excited for the complex challenges the real-world
will soon kick his way after graduating from a rigorous
entrepreneurship program this coming spring, not to mention
overcoming four years of soccer sprints. It is fair to say he’ll
be ready.
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