The sports season is not actually over (shout out to baseball in the MIAA Tournament and the track athletes going to nationals), but this will be the last print issue for Chimes this year, so I will offer...
A week remains before the 2014 NFL Draft, and the football world is chomping at the bit. As if it wasn’t long enough already to wait until April 25, the draft has been pushed back to May 8 this year,...
The Calvin College men’s golf team finished up their brief spring season on Saturday, April 19, placing third at the MIAA’s final NCAA Spring qualifying tournament. The Knights ended the three tournament...
Imagine this: You are an absolutely brilliant young engineer with an amazing brain for design and mechanics. You created your own software before you hit puberty. You took apart a computer and put it back...
For the first time in his career, Calvin’s junior attacker Tim Marco has been named the MIAA’s lacrosse player of the week.
Marco earned the honor with a superb week, providing most of the Knights’...
The Calvin College track team saw some impressive performances in the distance events on Saturday at the Michigan State University Spartan Invitational, which saw numerous runners set new personal bests...
In case you missed it, Jason Collins, a 35-year-old NBA veteran and graduate of Stanford University, publicly came out as gay this past summer. After spending a large part of the NBA season as a free agent,...
The Calvin College softball team is off to a very good start, opening the season with a 9-5 non-conference record. They will open conference play with a pair of contests against Adrian on Wednesday, and...
Sometimes I have trouble living up to my Dutch heritage. When I have money in my pocket, I'm inclined to spend it. Money burns a hole in my pocket. Sure, the fact that I'm broke and kind of, sort of an...
A blistering start by Calvin’s junior outfielder Grant Van Putten has earned him MIAA player of the week for the first time in his career.
In two wins last week, Van Putten batted .538 with a home run,...
Nicole Michmerhuizen had a very successful time as Calvin’s sole representative at the Division III National Championship meet at the University of Nebraska on Friday and Saturday, placing second in...
The Calvin College men’s basketball team’s season came to an end on Friday night as they fell to sixth-ranked Illinois Wesleyan 78-64 in the Sweet 16 game in Bloomington, Ill. The Knights end their...
The Calvin College men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA DIII Sweet 16 sectional last week with wins over Wittenberg and No. 2 Washington University. They will take on Illinois Wesleyan at 8:30...
Here are a couple extremely straightforward facts about professional sports.
1. The goal of every team is to win the championship.
2. Only one team can win the championship.
So about 30 teams every...
The Calvin College women’s basketball team’s season came to an end on Saturday, as they lost to Hope, the No. 1 ranked team in the nation. After upsetting nationally-ranked Olivet on Thursday, the...
The Calvin College men’s and women’s track teams took home wins on Saturday in the Calvin Championships, an inaugural meet hosted by Calvin. The Calvin men scored 180 points, well ahead of second-place...
The Calvin College men’s basketball team avenged two losses to Hope College during the season on Saturday, routing the Dutch 78-53 in Holland at the MIAA Tournament final. The win earns the Knights an...
The Calvin College men’s basketball team celebrated its senior day with an 83-57 win over the Britons of Albion College at home on Saturday. Calvin finishes its MIAA season at 19-5 overall and 11-2 in...
The Calvin College track and field teams are set to host the Calvin Championships on Saturday, Feb. 28. Field events will begin at 9:30 a.m. with running events set to start at noon. Admission is free.
The...
Starters:
Jordan Daley, PG/SG (#34)
Strengths:
Athletic: a big guard who excels at taking smaller guards to the rim and posting them up. High-energy defender who forces lots of turnovers. Efficient:...
In what was unquestionably the greatest day in Calvin College swimming history, both the men’s and women’s teams took home conference championships on Saturday, culminating a four-day meet.
It was...
“I’m not a racist.” It’s a phrase we usually hear someone say right before they say something racist. But at the same time, most everybody wants to say that about themselves. I can’t imagine...
The Calvin College men’s basketball team had a full week, dropping their second consecutive rivalry matchup to Hope 83-65 last Wednesday before rebounding with a 68-55 win over the Adrian Bulldogs on...
The Calvin College men’s and women’s swimming and diving team will look to capture an MIAA title this week in their home pool. The Calvin men are currently ranked 13th in the nation by the latest NCAA...
The Calvin College volleyball team will celebrate their national championship with a year-end banquet this Saturday that will be quite different from a typical year-end team gathering. Titled “A Knight...
The Calvin College Men’s basketball team fell short in their first 2014 matchup against Hope at home today, losing 71-63. The loss drops the Knights to 9-4 overall and 1-1 in the MIAA, while the Dutch...
The Calvin men’s basketball team will take on Hope Saturday at in the 186th installment of the vaunted Calvin-Hope Rivalry. The game will be held at 3 p.m. at Calvin’s Spoelhof Fieldhouse complex.
The...
The Calvin volleyball team added a couple more accolades to its belt this past month as three players gained All-American recognition, as well as senior Megan Rietema earning AVCA National Player of the...
With Calvin just finishing up the celebrations from winning their second national title in four years, is it too early to look to next year and hope for more?
Maybe, but that’s the standard that the...
The much-anticipated MIAA tournament final that featured the No. 2 Calvin women’s volleyball team taking on the No. 1 Hope Flying Dutch did not disappoint, as Calvin pulled together a comeback and won...
The Calvin College men’s basketball team enters the 2013-14 season coming off one of their best years in recent memory, where they won 20 games for the first time since 2006, won the MIAA and advanced...
Last year, the Calvin sports community was treated to a very memorable moment when then-junior Brendan Coallier hit nothing but net on a half-court shot at MidKnight Madness, winning himself $500 and a...
I would bet that you, being in some way, shape or form a member of the Calvin community, have an opinion about the infamous Grand Rapids Christian High School, better known as GRCHS.
I suppose I have...
The Calvin women’s volleyball team kept its record perfect this week, surviving a down-to-the-wire four-set match against Albion on Friday and downing Alma in three sets on Saturday.
These wins improved...
The Calvin College men’s soccer team kept its winning ways going this week, registering a 3-0 win at Trine on Wednesday and a 2-1 victory at Adrian on Saturday.
These wins make four in a row for the...
Last fall was something of an unprecedented sports season for the Calvin College Knights.
The women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer and men’s golf team...
The Calvin College men’s golf team continued their recent stretch of strong play at the third and fourth MIAA Jamborees, finishing second with a team score of 309 on Wednesday and tying for first on...
Ryan Souders was inspired.
A collegiate soccer star at Wheaton College who had even spent some time playing professionally, Souders had never really needed any extra motivation to get the most out of...
According to the 2013-2014 rankings released by the Princeton Review, Calvin’s athletic facilities rank 19th in the nation, clearly due in large part to the state-of-the-art Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex.
Built...
The Calvin women’s golf team placed 13th out of 18 teams at this weekend’s Olivet Invitational, behind the strong performance of senior Carlia Canto.
“We are a young team, but this score did not...
It is increasingly unlikely that Calvin will have a football team any time in the near future as the current budget situation has put expensive, albeit possibly beneficial proposals, like football, on...
It was an exciting tournament, to say the least, for the Calvin women’s soccer team as the team claimed two overtime wins in two days to win the championship at the Milwaukee School of Engineering Raider...
Even after having lost some key seniors from last year, the Calvin women’s volleyball team proved that they were still dominant this year, winning all four games they played, including three against...
The Knights kicked off their season last Friday evening at the Andrea’s Classic on Calvin’s home course. The meet was small, consisting of Calvin and fellow MIAA member, Olivet. The Knights swept both...
