 Sophie Franklin
Year: Freshman Major: Physics College: College of Natural Science Hometown: Farmington Hills, MI High School: Farmington High School Favorite Event: 5k Other Activities Outside of MSURC: University Christian Outreach (UCO), and I’m a lifeguard at the pools on campus What brought you to running club: I love running, but didn’t want a huge commitment About Sophie: I’m super nerdy, hence me majoring in physics, and I get super excited when I see mathematical patterns. I also love musicals, (seriously, my musicals playlist is 25 hours, 43 minutes long) and if you ask me to, I will go into an hour long description of each musical and analyze each song for you in detail, and describe how the character develops throughout the musical, and how not only do the words portray that, but the music behind the words. Don’t make me a choose a favorite though, because they’re all so amazing. Some of my favorite ones that people might know who aren’t musical theatre nerds are Hamilton, Mamma Mia, and Into The Woods!
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 Grace MacDonald
Year: Junior Major: Psychology Minor: Spanish College: College of Social Science Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, MI High School: Birmingham Groves High School Favorite Event: 5k and 1600m Other Activities Outside of MSURC: MSU Autism Lab Research Assistant What brought you to running club: I loved cross country in high school and wanted to continue running. I like the optional-ness of racing, the awesome social atmosphere, and having an opportunity to work out and be social at the same time. About Grace: I lived in Seoul, South Korea, and Shanghai, China, for 6 years when I was younger! I love Asian food and I can speak a little bit of Korean. I also love being outside.  Amanda Young
Year: Sophomore Major: Human Development and Family Studies, with a minor in Human Behavior and Social Services College: College of Social Science Hometown: East Lansing, MI (I live 10 minutes away from MSU) High School: Haslett High School Favorite Event: Cross Country and Half Marathons. Definitely a distance girl. Other Activities Outside of MSURC: I've recently joined PASS, which stands for Pilipino American Student Society. I'm half Chinese and half Filipino! I also volunteer at Haven House, which is a homeless shelter. I make dinner for the families. What brought you to running club: For the longest time, it was my dream to run for MSU and I considered trying to walk on. As time went on, I realized that I didn't want to have a huge commitment with being on the actual team. I just wanted to run for fun, but still be competitive and work toward my goals with this sport. After coming to practice the first week, I knew that this was where I was meant to be. Joining Running Club has made me appreciate and love running more. I've met some of my best friends through here, and it makes my heart happy to call our team family. About Amanda: 1. Besides running, I enjoy lifting and hot yoga. 2. I'm a singer. 3. I love to read and write poetry. 4. I LOVE COOKIE DOUGH. 5. I'm planning on becoming a nurse, just going a different route! 6. Fun (and weird) fact: I can stick my stomach out really far, it's kinda scary. 7. I struggled with an eating disorder for five years. Choosing recovery has been one of the best decisions I've made. I want to help those who are struggling and ignite hope in them, just like those who were able to do so for me.  Audrey Baetz
Year: Senior Major: Fisheries and Wildlife College: College of Natural Resources Hometown: Northville, Michigan High School: Northville High School Favorite Event: 400m or 5k's Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Undergraduate Research Assistant, MSU Fly Fishing Club, American Fisheries Society What brought you to running club: I've been running since middle school and it has just always been my favorite thing to do! I went to community college before coming to MSU, and ran on their cross country team and was captain my second year. When I came here I obviously wanted to keep running so I was super pumped to find out I could not only run with friends, but race too!! Although my classes run too late for me to attend practice this semester, I hope to see and meet all of your smiling faces at the social events and races! About Audrey: For certain reasons, I have an entire folder on my flash drive titled "Why Sharks are Cool". This past summer I had a Fisheries Management internship in South Dakota and one of my nicknames was "Lunch Box" due to how much I love eat! I also have a science communication twitter account I use to interact with other people in my field...but mostly it's for fish puns. I've also been inches away from a rattlesnake, and once jumped in a river to save a drowning pigeon!  Charlotte Etienne
Year: Junior Major: Biological Science Interdepartmental College: College of Natural Science Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan High School: East Grand Rapids High School Favorite Event: 10 mile, 25k, and marathon Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Preschool teacher what brought you to running club: The freedom to run what I want and the opportunity to run on a team. About Charlotte: I started running in middle school and was inspired by my parents to run my first marathon freshman year here. My favorite kind of run to do is an early morning long run on the weekend!  Rachel Harris
Year: Freshman Major: Physcology College: College of Social Science/honors college Hometown: Grosse Pointe, MI High School: Grosse Pointe South High School Favorite Event: 5K, 10k and half marathon Other Activities Outside of MSURC: H-STAR, Honors College Dean's Advisory Board, Honors Service Club, Honors Mental Health Club, Hall Government, Psychology Club what brought you to running club: I love to run and meet new people About Rachel: I started running in middle school on the track team, but it wasn't until high school that I started running cross country. The team I was on for my high school had 120 girls on it! It was one of the best things I did in high school and I am so excited to be on another amazing and big team!  Ryan Whinnery
Year: Sophomore Major: Computer Science College: College of Engineering Hometown: Farmington Hills, MI High School: Detroit Catholic Central Favorite Event: 5K and 1600 Other Activities Outside of MSURC: MSU MMA Club What brought you to Running Club?: My senior year of high school, both of my cross country and track seasons ended off on horrible circumstances. Needless to say, I didn't hit any of my goals I set for those seasons and was not ready to give up running just yet. My sister, who had just graduated from MSU, told me that MSU had a running club, and I started to gain interest in it. I looked up the club, and seeing everything about actually helped me a little bit in deciding to go to MSU. The people, culture, and friends I've made are what keep me coming back day-in and day-out. About Ryan: Mixed martial arts is my favorite sport and pretty much my passion in life. I don't miss a UFC event if I don't have to, and my one of my biggest life goals is to win a world championship. I'm also a Dragon Ball Z/Dragon Ball Super mega-fan. Also the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. I know the canon to all of those franchises by heart. BIG Hamm's guy Begoner of THOTS  Maddy Alpert
Year: Junior Major: English with a Spanish minor! College: College of Arts and Letters and College of Education. Hometown: Huntington Woods, MI (near the Detroit Zoo) High School: Berkley High School Favorite Event: 4x400 and the Half Marathon! Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Member of the Global Educators Cohort Program, Member of Pláticas (where you can go and practice speaking Spanish), I love to go to MRULE, and I have a job at Upward Bound MSU which is an after school program for high school students in the Lansing School District What brought you to Running Club?: I love to run and wanted to continue running in college! I also wanted to beat the Freshman 15. It also is a great way to make friends! About Maddy: 1) I LOVE to travel!!! I studied abroad during Spring semester of last year in Valencia, Spain. I love anything Spanish related including the language, food, dancing, holidays, etc. I also was able to travel quite a bit throughout Europe when I was there as well! 2) I have run four half marathons and I hope to run my first marathon in 2019 or 2020! 3) I love working with kids and teenagers of all ages. I have been a camp director for two years for 6 and 7 year olds. During the school year I work with high schoolers at my job. This year I will also be working in a middle school classroom. 4) I am getting my teaching degree and will be certified to teach English and Spanish. 5) Once I receive my teacher certification, I hope to teach in a Spanish-speaking country!  Ellie Haun Year: Junior Major: Food Science College: College of Agriculture Hometown: Grand Rapids, Mi High School: East Grand Rapids High School Favorite Event: Half Marathon Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Food Science Club, writer for Spoon University, Slow Foods Club, Honors College, Food Science Undergraduate Research What brought you to Running Club?: I didn't run competitively in high school. I was on the tennis team, and ran a few days a week as a form of cross training. I started freshman year of MSU on the Club Tennis team, but wanted more physical activity as practice was only twice a week. My friend from high school recommended I join running club, so I came to a practice in mid-September and then kept coming. I fell in love with running with people, pushing myself in workouts, and getting better at running. Because of this club, I met my best friends and tried new things like running a half marathon and a 25k. Joining running club is the best decision I’ve made in college. About Ellie: I love food, which makes sense since I'm majoring in food science. I write about and photograph food for Spoon University and for my food Instagram (yes, I'm one of those people that photographs their food at restaurants). If you're curious about how much peanut butter I consume on a daily basis, check out @peanutbutterandellllie.  Riley Van Pelt
Year: Senior Major: Advertising Management and Sales Leadership College: Communication Arts and Sciences Hometown: New Buffalo, Mi High School: New Buffalo High School Favorite Event: 1 mile baby! Other Activities Outside of MSURC: MSU Global Sales Leadership Society, Academic Orientation Program What brought you to Running Club?: I joined the running club, because I didn’t want to stop competing in running after high school. I was just starting to find my stride with running, but I wasn’t good enough to be a part of MSU’s actual team. So on one Sunday afternoon during my senior year of high school, I was meeting up with a different running club. A former MSU Running Club member by the name of Old Man Blosser showed up to this particular practice and basically promoted the running club to me. His description sounded perfect to me, so I did some research and follow @MSURunning on Twitter. When they followed me back, I was absolutely pumped. And now I run that Twitter account lmao. About Riley: During my freshmen year of college, me and Tommy Brettscheider decided to partake in the Okemos IHOP challenge. The challenge was to beat the record for living in IHOP, which at the time was 54 hours. If we completed this, we would get our names permanently on a plaque in IHOP… and of course have pride. We were super confident that we could complete this challenge easily over Spring Break. In fact, we were too confident. So after partying the night before, getting 5 hours of sleep, and going on a 9-mile-long run, we entered the doors of IHOP. We had called the manager the night before and he said it would be awesome if we did the challenge. However, a different manager was there the next day and he almost didn’t let us do it. After some thorough convincing by Tommy B, we were able to still do it… except now we were not allowed to sleep. If we slept, we would be kicked out. This added to the whole drama of the experience and made it a much tougher challenge, but we were still going to push through. The challenge started off easy. We just had to order food every 8 hours and play around on our computers. However, at the 20-hour mark, life started to get really rough for me. To help make my life better, Tommy B and I thought it would be a good idea to order the All You Can Eat Shrimp at IHOP. This would lead to my inevitable downfall. I got sick around hour 28 and had to leave at hour 29, just barely over halfway there. I abandoned Tommy B, and he ended up falling asleep and getting kicked on out at hour 33. After our failed attempt, our buddy and his friend ended up doing the IHOP challenge last spring. They made it 65 hours and crushed our record without sleeping. RIP. So there are a lot of morals to this story… even the best fall down sometimes, always plan for the worst, there’s always someone better than you, don’t order the All You Can Eat Shrimp at IHOP, etc. Either way, the people you meet on the running club can take you for a wild ride. It’s a fun time. Mitchell Smith Year: Freshman
Major: Food Science College: Agriculture and Natural Resources Hometown: Hartland, MI High School: Hartland High School Favorite Event: 5000m Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Food Science Club About Mitchell: His parents live in Germany and his brother goes to college in Cleveland! Brendan Lienau Year: Freshman
Major: Biochem/Biotech College: Natural Science Hometown: Naperville, IL High School: Naperville Central High School Favorite Event: 800m and 1600m Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Research at the crops and soil science building. work at Shaw caf, member of the Campbell hall government, looking to be an RA next year. About Brendan: There was this one time he was running in the winter with some of his guys. Their hands got really cold so they dashed into a shady fried chicken joint just 400m from the high school. They felt bad about tracking in snow and mud just to be warm so they raced the 400m back to school. It was a recovery day. #NeverForget Jack Luxem Year: Freshman
Major: Undecided Hometown: LaGrange, IL High School: Lyons Township High School Favorite Event: Triple Jump, Long Jump, 100, 200 Other Activities Outside of MSURC: None About Jack: Jack is really into today's alternative music. He can play guitar and sing and would definitely be down to jam with some people! Matt Eichstaedt Year: Freshman
Major: History Education College: Social Sciences Hometown: Grandville, MI High School: Grandville High School Favorite Event: 800m Other Activities Outside of MSURC: History Club About Matt: Matt loves wearing super hero clothing to running club runs. Hence, his nickname is "Spider-Matt". Spider-Matt likes to compare himself to Forrest Gump, in that most of the time he just "feels like" running. He can also make some pretty dank cookie. Chris Cashen Year: Freshman
Major: Supply Chain Management College: Business Hometown: Romeo, MI High School: Romeo High School Favorite Event: More of a social runner Other Activities Outside of MSURC: MSU Supply Chain Management Association About Chris: -Played tennis and lacrosse in high school, but always liked running -Big into drumming: was part of high school drumline as a section leader -Loves the Red Hot Chili Peppers -Played drums for one of his high school theater shows called "Aida", which was written by Elton John -Really loves playing the drums and jamming with friends -Has an 11-piece drumset -Loves going to concerts and being in the outdoors -Really likes drumming Ryan Grotenrath (Yachty) Year: Freshman
Major: Chemical Engineering College: Engineering Hometown: Coopersville, MI High School: Coopersville High School Favorite Event: The Mile Other Activities Outside of MSURC: MSU Snowboard Club, Usher at the Breslin About Ryan: -Wasn't into running before joining this club -Was a soccer player for all his life -Likes making dank friends -Never been on a yacht -Doesn't like the food broccoli -Likes Star Wars -Likes the color blue Why everyone calls him Yachty: Ryan was once running with Lucas Werner, and they were talking about rising hip hop artist Lil' Yachty. At this point, Lil' Yachty was sort of unknown, so Lucas thought it was really cool that Ryan also knew about Lil' Yachty and his music. So Lucas decided to start calling him Yachty, and like many nicknames in this club, it just caught on. Matt Sowles Year: Freshman
Major: Kinesiology College: Education Hometown: Coldwater, MI High School: Coldwater High School Favorite Event: 4x800 Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Ski Club, State Room host About Matt: -No, he does not bleach his hair -Yes, he is single -No, he is not from California -Once had a fox steal his pants in the woods -Does not enjoy long walks on the beach -Does not like sand between his toes -Really likes chocolate milk -Yes, that is actually him with Emma Watson Jacob Broman (JB) Year: Freshman
Major: Mechanical Engineering College: Engineering Hometown: White Lake, MI High School: Lakeland High School Favorite Event: 5K Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Undergraduate Research Assistant About JB: JB played soccer for 7 years until he found cross country in 7th grade. He has since never looked back and has thus far set a PR of 16:42 in the 5K! Webmaster note: Jacob's nickname is JB because BJ said so. If you are member of the MSU RC, you are not allowed to be named Jacob. Audrey Baetz Year: Junior
Major: Zoology/Marine Biology College: Natural Science Hometown: Northville, MI High School: Northville High School Favorite Event: Hurdles, 200m, 400m, or 5K Other Activities Outside of MSURC: MSU snowboard club, fish and wildlife club (still in process of joining), and just scored an internship at Fenner Nature Center in Lansing! About Audrey: Audrey is a transfer student to MSU, so this is actually her first year here. Before coming to MSU, she ran for Schoolcraft Community College and was the captain of their cross country team! Audrey loves being outdoors, whether it's fishing, kayaking, longboarding, or just simply exploring. Her favorite place to be is up north on a lake! She also loves animals and would say that sharks are her favorite. And as a determined fellow, Audrey loves racing and is always looking for new ways to push herself! Al Shoopman Year: Sophomore
Major: Chemical Engineering College: Engineering Hometown: Dexter, MI High School: Dexter High School Favorite Event: Just running enough to stay ahead of the competition and to be able to enjoy all the pizza at late night Other Activities Outside of MSURC: RA in Holden, member of MRULE About Al: -Not a fan of things that aren't appealing -Bleeds Green and White (might need to get that checked soon) -On a scale from MatLab to HEY-YA by Outkast, he gives this club a 10! Jaden Vaught Year: Freshman
Major: Forensic Psychology College: Social Science Hometown: Rochester, MI High School: Stoney Creek High School Favorite Event: 5000m or 400m Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Ultimate Frisbee About Jaden: Jaden likes socks. He has literally over 30 pairs of weird socks and 0 normal white ones. What does he do with these socks? Show 'em off with his XC short shorts of course! Watch out for Jaden in this year's edition of the Chocolate Milk Mile - the dude's a pro (kind of but not really). He once chugged a quart of chocolate milk and then proceed to race a mile without throwing up! Oh and he wants to join the FBI later, so watch out. Alec Reilly Year: Freshman
Major: Mechanical Engineering College: Engineering Hometown: Omaha, NE High School: Omaha Westside High School Favorite Event: Cross Country or 2-mile Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Baja SAE, Cru About Alec: He is a twin and he loves cars. That's all you need to know. Britt Forker Year: Junior
Major: Advertising College: College of Communication Arts and Sciences Hometown: Laguna Niguel, CA High School: Dana Hills High School Favorite Event: Whatever involves a travel meet Other Activities Outside MSURC: PCMA (a management and event planning club), and Spartans Rebuilding Michigan ( community service club) About Britt: Surprisingly, Britt is actually the only redhead in her family! She also used to be a competitive swimmer but has since transferred to running. However, if you are also into swimming, she would still be down to swim some laps with you. Britt also has a love for fashion and a big interest in college sports, and thus hopes to work with collegiate teams in the future. Dean Kuharevicz Year: Junior
Major: Mechanical Engineering College: Engineering Hometown: Muskegon, MI High School: Muskegon Catholic Central High School Favorite Event: Mile, but is more of a social runner Other Activities Outside of MSURC: IM Soccer Ref, Engineering Student Council About Dean: Dean is a transfer student from Muskegon Community College after receiving his Associates Degree, and so this is his first semester on campus. Dean is from a small high school that didn't even have a cross country team. However, there was a track team that he was a part of. One of his fondest memories from track was finishing last in the 800m and 1600m his senior year. Thus, he would rather label himself as more of a cyclist, having logged over 2,800 mile the past two summers! Dean now mostly uses running as a stress relief (yeah engineering!) and to meet new people. Dean likes his name. If you can't remember it, just think of Jimmy Dean or Dean's ice cream or something like that. Or maybe just remember food. Dean loves food. You love food. You love Dean. Natalie Whise Year: Junior
Major: History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Minor in Spanish) College: Lyman Briggs Hometown: St. Joseph, MI High School: St. Joseph High School Favorite Event: Cross country, mile/1500m Other Activities Outside of MSURC: Recently joined the Red Cross Club About Natalie: Natalie loves to eat. She definitely would not describe herself as a food critic, food snob, or any of those things, but she does love to try different foods as much as possible. And as an aid to her enjoyment of trying different foods, Natalie also likes to travel. So while abroad, she will make a point to get the real “taste” of the culture of the area that she is in. Natalie is also the VP of Administration for this club. In fact, she was actually the person who started this Featured Member thing last year when she served as Webmaster! |
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