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Sport of archery brings friends and competitors closer together

BY ALEXEA HANKIN AHANKIN@STATENEWS.COM

Recently, neuroscience senior Erin Formiller and human biology senior Katie Glover took up their bows and arrows and shot together for one of the last times of this semester.

It was a local winter league tournament hosted at MSU’s Demmer Center, and Formiller and Glover walked away receiving first and second place, respectively. Nationally, the duo ranked third and sixth in the 47th U.S. National Indoor Championships.

Formiller serves as the director of communications for the archery team at MSU, while Glover is its secretary. They both hold integral places on the team’s editorial board.

But what one might not know is that the duo, equally matched in archery skill level and studying very similar things at MSU, are also the best of friends and roommates.

“I wanted to join the archery team because I found it on Facebook my sophomore year,” Glover said. “And when I expressed interest, Erin just reached out to me and told me that the Demmer Center was far away and that there’s no buses that go out to it, so she offered to drive me one day, and after that, every time we wanted to go shoot, we were there. We just clicked.”

“I mean, when we’re competing together we are definitely competitors. But with as much as I want to win, I want her to win as well.”

Erin Formiller, Neuroscience senior Formiller continued driving Glover and a few other members of the team to practice every week, and through it the two bonded.

“Coming into MSU, I felt kind of out there,” Formiller said.

“I felt like I didn’t really have that connection with other girls here because no other girls I knew here hunted or shot bow and arrow, so when I met her, it was great.”

Before joining the team, both women had never shot competitively before.

Formiller said she tried it out one day, and after gaining some success, she told Glover to try it out as well.

Since then, the two have been hooked — they’ve learned together, and because of that, bounce lessons off one another whenever they shoot.

“We just push each other,” Glover said. “We started in around the same area, at the same time, and it’s like, if she shoots a really high score I want to shoot a really high score too.”

The two admit there is a competitive nature to their friendship, but they usually don’t let that get in the way of things — at the end of the day, they’re still best friends.

“I mean, when we’re competing together we are definitely

Students feel misled by East Lansing housing rental company CRMC

BY JOSH BENDER JBENDER@STATENEWS.COM

Some current and former lessees of 243 Center St., said they believe they were misled by the property’s ownership, CRMC. The property’s lease included four bedrooms including one in the basement, former resident and political science senior Katie Jesaitis said.

But halfway into the two-year lease the house failed a city inspection because of its basement bedroom, she said. This left one of her roommates suddenly short a bedroom.

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Neuroscience senior Erin Formiller helps packaging junior Nick Hool with his bow April 6 at Demmer Sports and Education Center in East Lansing. Hool has been shooting bow for about three and a half years. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

competitors,” Formiller said. “But with as much as I want to win, I want her to win as well.”

Glover said when it comes to competition, the pair puts their friendship aside.

“But I mean, she always wins,” Glover said. “At least I’m the taller one.”

After meeting and growing as friends and as archers through their sophomore year, the two never lost touch and decided during their junior years to get an apartment together.

“We both started having some roommate issues last year and at one point we were just like ‘why are we not rooming together?’” Glover said. “We were practically living together already, just not paying rent at the same place.”

Now, they have an entire wall inside their apartment covered in both of their leftover targets from all of their competitions and practices.

Formiller said there’s probably more than 40 between the

two of them. Two of the targets look very similar.

“At leagues on Wednesday, Katie and I, of course, got bracketed together for a one-to-one shoot off,” Formiller said. “We shot the same exact score which came down to a one-arrow shoot off, and I beat her by maybe two centimeters.”

The two will go on to compete in USCA Collegiate Regionals in a few weeks and will later go on to finish out the season at USCA Collegiate Nationals in May. After graduation, they are headed down different paths — Formiller will move to her job in north Chicago and Glover will start working at a hospital close to her hometown in Michigan.

Nonetheless, the two intend to keep in touch through archery.

“I think we’ll be seeing each other at meets around the country even once we move away from each other,” Formiller said.

“We plan to, actually. I don’t think either one of us is giving up shooting anytime soon.”

Going back to at least 2006, the house’s basement is listed as unsuitable for use as a bedroom, according to its license from that year.

In emails between Jesaitis and CRMC, the company claimed the policy change was much more recent.

“Despite the fact that the city had allowed the bedroom in the basement for as long as CRMC has managed the property, they are changing their policy,” Andrew Sass, an attorney working on CRMC’s behalf, wrote in an email to Jesaitis and the home’s other tenants on Dec. 22, 2014.

CRMC’s claims are contrary to those of Annette Irwin, East Lansing housing and university relations administrator.

“If CRMC told them that, it’s not true,” Irwin said. “If a housing inspector saw that, they would have said it was a violation.”

She said it sounded like CRMC was trying to appease tenants.

According to the original lease signed by Jesaitis and the other tenants, using the bedroom as a basement is forbidden.

However, the home’s floor plan on the CRMC website includes a basement bedroom.

Several months after Jesaitis’ issues, CRMC signed another group of four students to the house, with the implication that home contained a basement bedroom, current lessee and international relations and applied engineering senior Daniel Feenstra said.

“Essentially, they said we can sign with four people in kind of a hush hush manner but that one of us might get kicked out,” he said. “I felt they were either being deceptive or had some knowledge I didn’t.”

Feenstra said he was allegedly told by CRMC the basement bedroom issue was affecting six to seven other properties owned by the company.

Feenstra said he and his roommates ultimately decided to sign with three roommates but he is still upset with CRMC for implying he could use the basement bedroom.

“CRMC should have been aware of this issue back from when Katie was signing,” Feenstra said.

CRMC did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this article.

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Student film talent shined bright April 9 at the annual Spartan Film Festival.

Hosted by University Activities Board, student work was submitted and broadcasted to an audience at Wells Hall.

Luke Dzwonkowski, political theory and constitutional democracy senior and films director for UAB, runs the films committee and helped to decide the winners of the categories, except the Fan Favorite Award.

Dzwonkowski said every submission was accepted. Each submission ranged between two to 15 minutes, with all 42 submissions equalling up to about four and a half hours.

Film freshman RJ Everett, who submitted “Bishop Street,” said he was excited to be a part of the event.

“I just hope they enjoy it — I hope I don’t get laughed out of the place,” Everett said. “I would like to win, but that’s not what it’s about it, it’s about having fun and making films.”

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“I asked him if I could interview him and then a week later, cut his monologue together and then he choreographed a dance to it,” Conklin said.

Conklin, whose group the Roial Players won best horror last year, said she enjoyed the range of submissions at the festival.

“It was really cool to see the range because they were some that you can see like, ‘Oh yeah, we just kind of made this for fun,’ and there were some where you could kind of tell that they had some professional aspirations,” Conklin said.

Conklin also won for best music video in last year’s festival.

THE WINNERS FOR THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL WERE AS FOLLOWS:

Best horror: “A Night Out” by Roial Players, accepted by Elise Conklin, media and information junior.

Best documentary: “Judun’s Journey” by Scott Wasserman, media and information senior.

Best comedy/drama: ”The God Particle” by Will Miller, electrical engineer senior.

Fan favorite: “Pizza Mouth” by Bailey Davis, theatre freshman.

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Residential College in the Arts and Humanities senior Shaylyn Adams performs spoken word poetry at the RCAH PeaceJam jam April 6 in the RCAH Theatre. The PeaceJam brings together RCAH and community members for an evening of poetry, stories, music and reflection focused on the civil and human rights movements. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

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Culture explored and celebrated at MSU Native American pow wow

BY CONNOR CLARK CCLARK@STATENEWS.COM

Extravagant regalia was on display Saturday at the MSU Native American Indigenous Student Organization’s 33rd annual Pow Wow of Life. The event was in Jenison Field House and brought together Native American people from many different states and tribes.

A pow-wow is a ceremonial gathering, during which people learn, practice and carry on the traditions of their ancestors.

Members of the NAISO said they hope the pow wow will provide a chance for young people to learn from their elders in order to carry on the Native American traditions. Also, it hopes to create an environment where Native American culture can be seen from non-American Indians to break various stereotypes.

Highlighted was many different forms of dancing. Other offerings included basket weaving, stone carving and shopping for many different traditional Native American goods — handcrafted baskets, medicine, dreamcatchers and animal hides from otters, bisons and pheasants.

This year, the pow wow honored former MSU employee John R. Winchester. Winchester was the coordinator for the North American Indian Affairs Office in the Center of Urban Affairs.

In his honor, the John R. Winchester Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to full-time Native American undergraduate students.

MSU alumna Ashley Ryerse is a member of NAISO and descendant of the Potawatomi people. Potawatomi was involved with the Council of Three Fires, an alliance between Potawatomi, Ottawa and Chippewa Native Americans.

“It is a really awesome opportunity because there is nothing in the immediate area,” Ryerse said. “People know this pow wow, we have people come from all over the U.S.” Ryerse added that a major issue surrounding Native Americans today is higher education. Ryerse said that not many Native Americans are attending universities or pursuing any higher level education after high school.

She said MSU has a good amount of resources dedicated to help Native Americans achieve higher education.

Another major issue surrounding Native Americans today involved the use of Native American symbols as their mascots, the Washington Redskins being a headliner for controversy.

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Crime and intelligence analyst Melissa Redshaw poses for a photo Friday at the MSU Police Department on 1120 Red Cedar Road. Redshaw works as MSU’s crime analyst. PHOTO: KELLY VANFRANKENHUYZEN

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The MSU Police Department is the only local department with its own crime and intelligence analyst who helps detectives investigate a myriad of crimes through an expertise in research and crime trends.

The East Lansing Police Department, Meridian Police Department and other local stations all solicit the help of MSUPD’s intelligence and crime analyst Melissa Redshaw, who became MSUPD’s first crime analyst roughly seven years ago.

“I’ve found criminals posing with stolen items on their Facebook page before, and that’s the sort of thing I look for. I’m good at digging. If there is something incriminating online, I’ll find it. ” Melissa Redshaw, MSU police crime and intelligence analyst MSU police Capt. Doug Monette said Redshaw’s assistance in investigations is something that cannot go unnoticed and is a pivotal part of how MSUPD works.

Redshaw graduated from Florida State University and began her policing career in Florida more than a decade ago, where she worked in a similar capacity as a crime investigator and also helped create an Amber Alert type system for lost elderly people.

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ida and got to really see how my work could help people,” Redshaw said. “That was really what put me on this path and brought me here.”

Redshaw is also a liaison for the Michigan Intelligence Operations Center, or Michigan fusion center, which was created following the September 11 attacks in order to encourage better communication between policing agencies about possible terrorist threats and other such crimes.

There are roughly 80 fusion centers in the U.S. As a liaison, Redshaw updates the fusion center on possible terrorist information and helps collaborate with other government agencies to better surveille the possibility of dangerous events such as September 11.

In her work at MSUPD, Redshaw is constantly parsing through suspects’ social media pages, their crime records and any other information she can get her eyes on to help progress an investigation.

“I’ve found criminals posing with stolen items on their Facebook page before, and that’s the sort of thing I look for,” she said.

“I’m good at digging. If there is something incriminating online, I’ll find it.”

Redshaw said with the evolution of technology, it becomes more important for police agencies to use crime analysts like her in order to be able to keep up with criminals’ activities online.

“Technology is certainly allowing criminals to use more ways to stay out of our grasp,” she said. “With people like me, we could help combat that secrecy.”

For the future, Redshaw said she would like to see more crime analysts added to the MSUPD staff, in order to better keep up with crimes like credit card fraud which Redshaw said have been increasing in recent years.

“I think seeing more people like me would help everyone,” she said. “We are the ones who can dig deep and find that final thing that will put a criminal away.”

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Submerged Sparty cart, acid spill and power outage all in one week

BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM

It all began with a golf cart. A famous golf cart, possibly driven by the mascot of MSU. At approximately 11 p.m. on April 3, Sparty’s golf cart was stolen and, after a two-day search, someone found it in Red Cedar River.

Criminal justice junior Zach Grover was taking his usual route to class on April 5 when he crossed the bridge across from Wells Hall by the Computer Center. Popping out of the water, as Grover looked out across Red Cedar River, was something odd.

“I could see the white sticking out from the seats,” Grover said, recalling the moment he found the golf cart. “I remembered ... my friend shared a post about the gold cart missing so I snapped a photo of it and almost went on with my day thinking someone must have called it in already.”

Minutes later, while in class, a friend had urged him to call it in.

He called MSU police and later that day, at 1:17 p.m., MSU police posted on Facebook saying it had found Sparty’s “whip.”

That was Tuesday. An isolated incident gave way to a week full of mishaps and weirdly coincidental events, during which MSU’s campus underwent a week that can only be described by a collective scratching of heads.

Even before the finding of Sparty’s sunken ride, Tuesday had already begun on a strange note.

About 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday at MSU’s T.B. Simon Power Plant, sulfuric acid — known to be highly corrosive — spilled inside the plant and 800 gallons seeped outside. The spill caused Service Road to be shut down until 11:30 a.m. and those working in the building were evacuated.

MSU spokesperson Jason Cody said the spill was caused by a faulty flange, which is a piece of metal that connects two pipes together.

No one was injured as a result of the spill, which was contained.

Then came Wednesday.

That morning, MSU’s Surplus Store caught fire.

The fire at the Surplus Store began while workers tried to fix a conveyor belt inside the cardboard recycling machine.

All 20 employees working at the building at the time escaped with no injury and the fire was out by 10 a.m.

The three rare and seemingly odd events in three days solicited a slew of responses from students across multiple social media platforms. Scores of students posted comments ranging from saying MSU was having a mental breakdown, seeing the events as a fulfillment of a prophecy and the start of the end of time.

And then it got more interesting.

With Tweets asking what was next, MSU delivered anoth-

Workers investigate a manhole following a recent power outage on April 7 at Red Cedar Road. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

er kicker.

At varying times during Thursday morning, buildings across campus lost power, leading to more cries of the end and a forthcoming rapture on social media. But the outage was caused by less than biblical proportions — a cable fault at the T.B. Simon Power Plant.

The power outage lasted until approximately noon on Thursday, but not before classes were canceled and dining halls were closed.

“We actually had about half of our equipment knocked off between about 10:09 (a.m.) and 10:11 (a.m.),” Bob Ellerhorst, the director of utilities for MSU Infrastructure Planning and Facilities said at a press conference Thursday. “About 40 buildings were affected on campus and (at) about 11:35 (a.m.) our last services were restored.”

He said MSU officials turned the power on and off at different

locations on campus to determine the source of the problem.

The official cause for the cable fault is unknown, but is unrelated to the chemical spill that occurred on Tuesday, Ellerhorst said.

The slew of mishaps had students preparing for a full collapse of MSU on Friday. And just when it seemed the worst was bound to happen, nothing did. The end of the madness prompted social media posts showcasing shirt designs reading, “I survived the MSU Apocalypse.”

MSU police even added a touch of humor as well on Friday and said via Twitter, “Spartans, let’s cross our fingers and think calm thoughts; and hopefully we won’t have an incident requiring an alert message today!”

Later, MSU police wrote in reply to another Twitter user, “I blame it on my night shift (lieutenant) who just came to day shift & everything just fell apart. Looking at you Lt. Merony!”

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Mechanical engineering junior Shayne Maguire, right, and civil engineering junior Kyle Savoie, left, prepare for the steel bridge competition April 8 at the Breslin Center. MSU was one of eight schools competing in the steel bridge competition. PHOTO: KELLY VANFRANKENHUYZEN

BY DIAMOND HENRY DHENRY@STATENEWS.COM

For the last year, MSU’s steel bridge team, Spartan Spanners, has been the designing, constructing and perfecting a large steel bridge that could hold as much as 2600 pounds for a competition as part of the annual American Society of Civil Engineers conference.

MSU played host to the annual conference this year, which allows students to compete in competitions like steel bridge building and concrete canoe racing – a competition canceled this year because of the weather.

The steel bridge competition gives students the opportunity to display their skills in not only teamwork, but steel fabrication and design as well.

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“These people will go out and graduate and be building things that serve the public.

They’ve got the technical skills of engineers but they’ve got a social conscientiousness that’s outstanding.”

Frank Hatfield, Spartan Spanners coach sities to compete. The steel bridge building competition took place on April 8 at Breslin Center.

Civil engineering junior Jake Maise, who was one of the steel bridge team captains and also participated in the competition, said the team spent the year training

for the event.

“We spent all of the fall semester designing and this semester in the metal shop and putting it all together,” Maise said.

The Spartan Spanners consists of 15 members and three captains. Every member of the team was involved in helping to put the steel bridge together in some way.

Although the captains were the ones who participated in the actual steel bridge competition, members of the team came to support them and watched from the sidelines.

Frank Hatfield, the team’s longtime coach, said the team does not get any class credit for the competition and spent its leisure time working on the steel bridge.

“They’re extremely enthusiastic and dedicated,” Hatfield said. “They will show their dedication, they will show a good bridge, good build time and show what they have been learning.

Patrick Schwyn, civil engineering junior and project coordinator, said the theme for this year was MSU and both teams are experienced with the competition.

“The steel bridge team is currently on a three year streak of winning regionals and going to nationals so we got a lot of experienced guys and girls on that team,” Schwyn said.

The team also worked on projects aside from the bridge and canoe.

“We worked not only on the canoe or bridge, but there’s posters and papers that go along with it,” Schwyn said.

Hatfield said he believes when the team graduates, society will be in good hands.

“These people will go out and graduate and be building things that serve the public,” Hatfield said. “They’ve got the technical skills of engineers but they’ve got a social conscientiousness that’s outstanding.”

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The Spartan Spanners are MSU’s steel bridge building team. The team is made up of engineering students who build bridges that can hold up as much as 2600 pounds. The annual American Society of Civil Engineers conference was held at MSU’s Breslin Center on Saturday, where the Spartan Spanners competed. Last year, the team finished off as 12th at the national ACSE/AISC conference competition.

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Ken Mannie’s rigorous workout program prepares MSU for season

BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM

Before the sun shines upon East Lansing, a typical day begins for Ken Mannie, the head strength and conditioning coach of the MSU football team.

While the players aren’t scheduled for at least another few hours, Mannie said he likes to get in his own workout in the early hours of the morning.

Afterward, the players file in for their usual morning workout after Mannie is done. From there, his day is only getting started. Mannie brings in a level of respect for the football program, being named the 2015 strength and conditioning coach of the year.

Mannie has been with the Spartan football team for more than two decades now, entering his 22nd season. He has a daughter who graduated from MSU and his family is deeply rooted in green and white.

He has been a staple in many Spartans’ lives, with early-morning workouts being a routine players expect year-round.

Perhaps one of the most grueling workouts Mannie is in charge of is the fourth quarter program, which also doubles as offseason conditioning. Rigorous and effective, Mannie found the inspiration for it through former Spartan and current MSU Athletics Hall of Famer, Carl “Buck” Nystrom.

“When I came here back in 1995 with Coach (Nick) Saban, I sat down with Coach Nystrom and he taught it inside out to me,” Mannie said. “The basic foundation of it is still in place.”

Along with the fourth quarter program, Mannie and his staff have players come in early in the morning to get their workouts done. With spring football starting back up, some players have to get up as early as 5 a.m. in order to make it to the workouts on time.

During these early-morning sessions, players know what to stress as they lift their weights. Head coach Mark Dantonio constantly mentions and stresses that he wants his football team to get 3 percent better everyday. Naturally, that spills over to weight room, and Mannie said he knows that. “(Getting 3 percent better) is not just coach speak, that comes from the heart,” Mannie said. “We talk about earning the jersey around here. That’s an everyday thing. Getting that 3 percent better is a part of earning that jersey.”

While there’s a huge focus on maintaining peak physical condition, there’s no denying the emphasis Mannie puts on the integrity of his players. That way, the players have the chance to use the life lessons they learn from him and apply them to the real world.

“Let’s face it, not everyone is going to the NFL,” Mannie said.

“Most of the guys are going to go off and venture off into life after football. What are you going to do for the next 50-something years of your life? Teaching them to get on that extra mile and live there, and build their house there, and be a fighter there, and work hard there every single day of their lives will prepare them for that. Those are some of the life lessons we’re trying to teach as well.”

Former MSU football captain Darien Harris said he knows how big of an influence Mannie has on the players. Regarded as one of the strongest players in college football his senior year, Mannie’s company and tutelage could be seen on and off the field.

“Once you get here, he really becomes that father figure to you,” Harris said. “He’s the coach you see the most out of anybody. His ability to mold us, not only as football players but as men is really second to none.”

Behind the scenes, the MSU football team is back at conditioning just one week after their bowl game ends, Harris said.

Coupled with 6 a.m. workouts, Mannie and his staff make sure they’re in peak physical and mental condition all year.

“The work we do we can do at five in the afternoon, three in the afternoon,” Harris said. “But really it’s for the mental aspect of it. That’s what Coach Mannie is always trying to teach us. The mental game is so much more important than the physical game.”

After wrapping up his senior year, Harris has been in Mannie’s programs as much as anyone else. Being so close to him, he understands the message Mannie has to send through the grueling workouts, especially the fourth quarter program.

Head strength and conditioning coach Ken Mannie works with students April 6 during weight lifting practice at Duffy Daugherty Building. Students were on their second work out of the day. PHOTO: KELLY VANFRANKENHUYZEN

“The reason we call it the fourth quarter program is because we know it’s important to finish in the fourth quarter,” Harris said. “We know that’s the most important part of the game and we feel we can outlast anybody in the fourth quarter because we put so much emphasis on it in the offseason.”

On the other end of the spectrum from a graduating senior, true freshman Messiah deWeaver said he has felt the effects of Mannie on his body. From the constant grueling workouts, deWeaver says he put some extra muscle on his frame.

“My weight was low when I got here,” deWeaver said. “I think I got faster. We did the combine stuff. My athleticism is getting better and I’m just a better football player right now.”

Behind the scenes, fans often forget how early football play-

ers and their staff have to get up to do their jobs.

A true freshman like deWeaver is just figuring out the little nuances of the college game.

As deWeaver gets accustomed to college and Mannie’s workout programs, he will have the chance to end as a finished product like Harris.

With the emphasis Mannie puts on not just the physical, but the mental aspect of a player, there’s a lot of work to be done.

But for Mannie, he loves to end things with this little phrase, a testament to his coaching style.

“Stay strong, stay in the fight, and keep making a positive impact on everybody you touch,” Mannie said. “Then you can’t help but be successful.”

“Let’s face it, not everyone is going to the NFL. Most of the guys are going to go off and venture off into life after football. What are you going to do for the next 50-something years of your life? Teaching them to get on that extra mile and live there, and build their house there, and be a fighter there, and work hard there every single day of their lives will prepare them for that them for that. Those are some of the life lessons we’re trying to teach as well. ” Ken Mannie, MSU football’s head strength and conditioning coach

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MSU track star Rachele Schulist making strides after knee injury

BY RYAN SQUANDA RSQUANDA@STATENEWS.COM

It was the halfway mark of the 10,000 meter race at the Raleigh Relays on March 26 and MSU track stars Rachele Schulist and Alexis Wiersma had led the way through much of the first 5,000 meters.

But, the pace was slow and the two of them had goal times they had to hit, so Wiersma turned to Schulist and told her they had to make a move.

And Schulist did, making such a move, which Wiersma said was too much for her to keep up with.

In just her second race back from a patella stress fracture, which put her out of racing for the better part of six months, Schulist went on to win the race in a time of 34:12, giving herself an emotional and hard-earned victory.

It’s no secret the last year has been tough on her.

Schulist’s 2014-15 seasons were a career for her, one that featured a fourth place All-American finish at the 2014 NCAA Cross Country National Championships, a 2014 team cross country win at National Championships, as well as successful indoor and outdoor track seasons highlighted by personal bests in all of her events.

Coming into the 2015 cross country season with a solid summer of training behind her, Schulist was expected to repeat the same kind of success.

However, following a fifth-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minnesota on Sept. 26, 2015, Schulist noticed a stingy

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“To see her just get back out on the track and and to have it be her first 10k and to see her same confidence that she’s always had in the past to just go, it was really cool and something I admire.”

Alexis Wiersma, Redshirt-junior and MSU track athlete pain in her knee during her cool down after the race.

Schulist attempted to train through the pain for a couple of weeks, but after learning in an X-ray that she had a patella stress fracture, the coaching staff made the decision to shut her down for the season.

“That was extremely hard,” Schulist said. “I love this sport and I love running so much and competing, so to not be able to do it, to not be able to help out the team at Big Tens and stuff was, it was just very difficult.”

For the remainder of the season, Schulist, along with fellow former and injured All-American Lindsay Clark, watched from the sidelines as the MSU women’s team went on to a 13th place finish at the NCAA Championships on Nov. 21, 2015.

Teammates of Schulist undoubtedly missed her because of her running talents, but her absence was so much more than that.

“Anytime anyone of our teammates is not competing, it’s really hard to watch that,” Wiersma said. “It’s hard to see somebody going through that physically and emotionally. It really takes a toll on that person specifically and on the team as well because we want to be there and support that person. It’s really sad to see your teammate sad.”

Schulist made gradual strides to return from her injury, grabbing some miles on the AlterG treadmill by January, and slowly returning to workouts and long runs after that. She ran a tune-up race on Feb. 19 at Grand Valley State University, but it wasn’t until the victory at the Raleigh Relays that she made her true return to competitive racing.

Schulist was ultimately named the Big Ten Track Athlete of

the Week for her performance, where she beat out her teammate Wiersma by approximately 0.2 seconds “I was definitely very nervous before, just in terms of everything feeling good,” Schulist said. “But once I got on the track and started going, I couldn’t help but smile when I was running. It felt right and it felt good and when Ally (Wiersma) and I took over the lead, it was like, ‘OK, this is pretty cool.’ There’s nothing better than to be leading a race with your teammate.”

For Wiersma, someone who has been racing against Schulist since middle school, seeing how happy and confident Schulist has been since returning from injury has been the sweetest thing.

“To see her just get back out on the track and to have it be her first 10K and to see her same confidence that she’s always had in the past to just go, it was really cool and something that I admire,” said Wiersma, who finished just behind Schulist in second at the Raleigh Relays. “She’s my friend, but she’s also my role model in that way because she’s such a confident racer and she’s so fearless.”

MSU Director of cross country and track and field Walt Drenth said after seeing Schulist’s progress the last few months, he wasn’t at all surprised by Schulist’s successful return, adding that now it’s just a matter of getting back into the swing of things.

“She broke the school record last year in 5,000 meters,” Drenth said. “I don’t think she’s quite there. I think she can be there by the end of the season and certainly be there by the fall. But it’s a long time to miss. And there a lot of things that go with missing that we take for granted. Racing at that level is hard.

And you spend essentially seven months not racing, you lose familiarity with that difficulty.”

Schulist said she’s never gone through an injury like this before, but now that she’s back, said she’s realized how much she truly loves and appreciates running and her team. And for now, she looks forward to the rest of the season.

“Sometimes I think the injury, it was a blessing because it made me fall back in love with it again and remember why I love it and take the expectations that I put on myself and kind of be free of those and be like, ‘OK, I’m starting over again, and this is where I’m at and all that matters is that I do my best,’” Schulist said.

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Redshirt-junior Rachele Schulist, left, and teammate and fellow redshirt-junior Alexis Wiersma congratulate each other after the women’s college 6K race Sept. 18, 2015 during the Spartan Invitational at Forest Akers Golf Course in East Lansing. Schulist’s time for this race was 21:01. Weirsma’s time was 21:07. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO

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MSU Department of Theatre’s ‘Grease’ based on Broadway roots

BY ALEXIS SARGENT ASARGENT@STATENEWS.COM

“Ball-change, kick, kick, kick, step on eight.”

A syncopated hand rhythm was combined with a complex foot step during one of the first rehearsals for the MSU Department of Theatre’s upcoming production of “Grease.”

The challenging choreography is being taught by Brad Willcuts, who is both the director and choreographer of “Grease.”

“I love to direct and choreograph, that’s really my favorite thing to do,” Willcuts said. “When you can do both, you get to really latch on to your concept, especially when you’re doing something new.”

MSU will be producing “Grease” in a manner that has rarely been seen since the original Broadway production in 1971, Willcuts said.

“It’s not your mom’s ‘Grease’ — it’s more of a PG-13 version,” Willcuts said.

After the original Broadway run, the musical “Grease” was transformed into the cleaner version that is popular today. Through Samuel French Licensing, Willcuts gained permission to produce MSU’s Grease in its original manner — profanity and all.

“Because we have the actual word-for-word original script that they did on Broadway, we want to honor that,” Willcuts said. “That started to motivate the set, the lights, the scenic, my concept for it, how the choreography was created and the story we were telling.”

Many of the MSU students involved in “Grease” said they are excited about this reinvented iteration.

“It’s totally different than anything you’ve ever seen before, and it’s in a different style that you’ve never thought of,” theatre freshman Cassie Nieri said.

Theatre sophomore Shelby Antel will play the lead role of Sandy.

“This is my first musical with MSU,” Antel said. “I’m obviously very excited to be playing Sandy, it’s a big undertaking.”

Willcuts said everyone seem to be ready to show the MSU community their talents.

“People know the show, but we’re twisting it,” Willcuts said. “They are going to see the version that much more closely resembles the way the authors originally intended to do the show, not the way it has been changed over time.”

Grease will run April 15-17 and April 20-24. Tickets are available through the Wharton Center Box Office, and can be bought online and at the door.

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Indian students celebrate heritage through dance

The Wharton Center was filled with Indian culture and entertainment Saturday for the annual Satrang event ‘‘Saathiya: Around the World in 7 Dances.’’ It was presented

by MSU’s Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students. Read more at statenews.com.

Mechanical engineering senior Sapan Patel performs with the Fusion dance group during Saathiya April 9 at the Wharton Center. Saathiya is an event put on by the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students at MSU. PHOTOS BY: NIC ANTAYA

Students perform with the Folk dance group during Saathiya April 9 at the Wharton Center.

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Students perform with the Hip-Hop Classical dance group during Saathiya April 9 at the Wharton Center.