Event will honor former student athletes

Four former Grand Valley student athletes or club sport members will be honored at the annual Celebrate Women in Sport and Physical Activity event, set for February 18 at the Fieldhouse.

They are Catherine Jones-Rikkers, associate professor of management, who played softball for the Lakers; Molly Mahoney, who established women's ice hockey as a club sport; Jaida Bourke Fitzgerald, who played basketball for the 2006 national championship team; and Kathleen Kinkema, associate vice president for academic affairs at Western State Colorado University, who played softball and field hockey.

The event runs from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. prior to the start of the women's basketball game against Northern Michigan University. The campus community is invited; tickets are $25 and include food, beverages and game ticket, $15 from each ticket sold will benefit the Boand and Rowe Endowment for Advancement of Women in Sport and Physical Activity.

RSVP for the event online at www.gvsu.edu/womeninsports.

The Boand and Rowe Endowment was established in 2013 to honor Joan Boand, professor emeritus of physical education, and Patti Rowe, professor emeritus of movement science, and their pioneering work at Grand Valley to advance sports and physical activity for women on campus.

Each year, honorees are selected based on successes they achieved and how their past involvement with varsity or club teams, or participation in physical activity, has attributed to those successes.