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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE October Sat. 7 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Exhib.) Fri. 13 at Bowling Green Sat. 14 BOWLING GREEN Fri. 20 WESTERN MICHIGAN Sat. 21 at Western Michigan Fri. 27 LAKE SUPERIOR STATE Sat. 28 LAKE SUPERIOR STATE November Fri. 3 at Minnesota * Sat. 4 at Minnesota * Fri. 10 WISCONSIN * Sat. 11 WISCONSIN * Fri. 17 FERRIS STATE Sat. 18 at Ferris State Fri. 24 at Penn State * Sat. 25 at Penn State * December Fri. 1 NOTRE DAME * Sat. 2 NOTRE DAME * Th. 7 at Michigan * Fri. 8 MICHIGAN * Sat. 16 at U.S. NATIONAL TEAM DEV. PROGRAM (Exhib.) January 53rd Annual Great Lakes Invitational TBA Michigan Tech [1] TBA Michigan/Bowling Green [1] Fri. 5 OHIO STATE * Sat. 6 OHIO STATE * Fri. 12 at Wisconsin * Sat. 13 at Wisconsin * Th. 18 MINNESOTA * Sat. 20 Minnesota [2] * February Fri. 2 at Ohio State * Sat. 3 at Ohio State * Fri. 9 MICHIGAN * Sat. 10 Michigan [1] * Fri. 16 PENN STATE * Sat. 17 PENN STATE * Fri. 23 at Notre Dame * Sat. 24 at Notre Dame * March Big Ten Tournament Fri.-Sun. 2-4 Quarterfinals (Best of three) Sat. 10 Semifinals Sat. 17 Championship NCAA Tournament Fri.-Sun NCAA Regionals Bridgeport, Conn.; Worcester, Mass.; Allentown, Pa.; Sioux Falls, S.D. April Thu.-Sat. 5-7 NCAA Frozen Four Xcel Energy Center; St. Paul, Minn. Michigan State at a Glance Spartan Roster... 3 Covering the Spartans College Hockey Directory MSU Administration... 8 Director of Athletics Mark Hollis Munn Arena SPARTAN HOCKEY STAFF Head Coach Danton Cole Assistant Coach Chris Luongo...17 Assistant Coach Joe Exter...18 Volunteer Assistant Coach Jason Muzzatti...19 Hockey Administrative Staff...20 MEET THE SPARTANS Player Bios Game-by-Game Stats SEASON IN REVIEW Results & Statistics Big Ten in Review...86 SPARTAN RECORD BOOK Scoring Leaders Goaltending Leaders Team/Opponent Records Year-by-Year Team Records & Leaders Year-by-Year Team Results/Statistics All-Time Records vs. Opponents SPARTAN HOCKEY HISTORY Timeline of Tradition All-Time Letterwinners All-Time Captains Spartans by the Numbers Spartans in the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame Major Athletic Awards Spartan Hockey Team Awards All-Time Coaching Records Great Lakes Invitational Big Ten Conference Central Collegiate Hockey Association MSU in Detroit Before the CCHA NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament Game-by-Game MSU National Champions Spartan All-Americans & Academic All-Americans Hobey Baker Memorial Award Spartan Olympians/International Competition Spartans in the NHL Draft MSU Players in the NHL Spartans in the Pros TV/Radio Roster MICHIGAN STATE HOCKEY * - Big Ten game Check MSUSpartans.com for game times [1] - Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Mich. [2] - Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y. 1

2 1966, 1986, 2007 THREE-TIME NCAA CHAMPIONS MICHIGAN STATE AT A GLANCE INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Founded Location...East Lansing, MI Enrollment...50,344 (fall 2016) Nickname... Spartans Colors... Green and White Affiliation...NCAA Division I Conference...Big Ten President...Dr. Lou Anna K. Simon Athletics Director...Mark Hollis SWA/Hockey Administrator...Shelley Appelbaum Faculty Representative...Sue Carter Arena (Capacity)...Munn Ice Arena (6,114) Ice Surface by 85 Ticket Office Phone: or 800.GO.STATE MICHIGAN STATE HOCKEY STAFF Head Coach... Danton Cole (Michigan State 89) Record at MSU (Year): (First season) Overall Record (Years): (Three seasons) Phone hockey@msu.edu Assistant Coach... Joe Exter (Merrimack 03); First season ... exterjos@ath.msu.edu Assistant Coach...Chris Luongo (Michigan State 90); First season ...luongo@ath.msu.edu Goaltending Coach...Jason Muzzatti (Michigan State 91); Third season ...jmuzzatti@ath.msu.edu Director of Hockey Operations...Brad Fast Phone fastbrad@ath.msu.edu Athletic Trainer... Dave Carrier Phone carrier@ath.msu.edu Equipment Manager... Tom Magee Phone mageet@ath.msu.edu Strength & Conditioning Coach...Mike Vorkapich Phone vork@ath.msu.edu Munn Ice Arena Manager... Tom Campbell Phone campbe65@msu.edu Hockey Operations Assistant... Barbara Powers Executive Secretary...Kris Smith Hockey Office Phone Hockey Office Fax Hockey Office ...hockey@msu.edu Hockey Office Address Birch Road, Munn Ice Arena Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI MICHIGAN STATE TEAM INFORMATION Overall Record/Big Ten Record / Letterwinners Returning (7 F; 7 D; 2 G) Others Returning... 1 (1 G) Letterwinners Lost... 9 (8 F; 1 D) Newcomers... 8 (7 F; 1 D) Key Returnees... Taro Hirose (So., F, 34 GP, ) Sam Saliba (So., F, 35 GP, ) Patrick Khodorenko (So., F, 35 GP, ) Carson Gatt (Sr., D, 31 GP, ). Zach Osburn (Jr., D, 35 GP, ) Key Lettermen Lost...Mason Appleton (35 GP, ) Thomas Ebbing (35 GP, ) Villiam Haag (35 GP, ) Joe Cox (35 GP, ) Newcomers...Tommy Apap (F, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) Gianluca Esteves (F, Winnipeg, Manitoba) Austin Kamer (F, Grand Rapids, Mich.) David Keefer (F, Brighton, Mich.) Mitchell Lewandowski (F, Clarkston, Mich.) Tommy Miller (D, West Bloomfield, Mich.) Jake Smith (F, East Amherst, N.Y.) Brody Stevens (F, Ann Arbor, Mich.) SPARTAN PROGRAM HISTORY First Varsity Season All-Time Record...1,282-1, (.556), 76 seasons NCAA Tournament Appearances (1959, 1966, 1967, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012) Frozen Four Appearances (1959, 1966, 1967, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2007) NCAA Titles...3 (1966, 1986, 2007) ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Hockey Contact...Jeff Barnes Office Phone Cell jbarnes@ath.msu.edu Senior All-Access Producer... Justin Garant Office Phone garantju@ath.msu.edu Munn Press Box Website... msuspartans.com Mailing Address: S. Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI MEDIA GUIDE CREDITS - The Michigan State hockey media guide is a product of the MSU Office of Athletic Communications. Written and edited by Jeff Barnes, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications. Editorial assistance provided by Ben Phlegar, Matt Larson, Zach Fisher and Kara Fisher. Cover design by Kyle Barnes. Photography provided by Matt Mitchell, Rey DelRio, Kevin Wilson, Larry Radloff, Michael Caples, Andrew Knapik, NHL/ Getty Images, Jey Crunch. Printing by Foresight Group, Lansing, Mich. 2 MSUSPARTANS.COM

3 MICHIGAN STATE ROSTER No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. S/C Birthdate Hometown/Previous Team 2 Zach Osburn D Jr. R 2/7/97 Plymouth, Mich./Chicago Steel (USHL) 4 Anthony Scarsella D So. L 3/20/96 White Lake, Mich./Springfield Jr. Blues (NAHL) 7 Damian Chrcek D So. L 2/17/96 Marysville, Mich./Salmon Arm Silverbacks (BCHL) 9 Mitchell Lewandowski F Fr. L 4/17/98 Clarkston, Mich./Chicago Steel (USHL) 10 Sam Saliba F So. R 10/9/95 Lincolnshire, Ill./Green Bay Gamblers (USHL) 11 Tommy Apap F Fr. L 2/27/96 Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Youngstown Phantoms (USHL) 12 Tommy Miller D Fr. R 3/6/99 West Bloomfield, Mich./USNTDP U Brennan Sanford F Jr. L 7/21/95 East Lansing, Mich./Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) 14 Dylan Pavelek F Sr. R 1/16/96 Marysville, Mich./USNTDP U Brody Stevens F Fr. R 4/26/97 Ann Arbor, Mich./Green Bay Gamblers (USHL) 17 Taro Hirose F So. L 6/30/96 Calgary, Alberta/Salmon Arm Silverbacks (BCHL) 18 Carson Gatt D Sr. L 4/20/96 South Lyon, Mich./Muskegon Lumberjacks (USHL) 19 David Keefer F Fr. R 10/21/97 Brighton, Mich./Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) 21 Jake Smith F Fr. L 10/28/96 East Amherst, N.Y./Chilliwack Chiefs (BCHL) 23 Cody Milan F Jr. R 4/11/96 White Lake, Mich./Tri-City Storm (USHL) 24 Austin Kamer F Fr. R 5/23/96 Grand Rapids, Mich./Lone Star Brahmas (NAHL) 28 Gianluca Esteves F Fr. L 1/29/97 Winnipeg, Manitoba/Aston Rebels (NAHL) 31 John Lethemon G So. L 8/16/96 Northville, Mich./Chicago Steel (USHL) 41 Spencer Wright G So. L 6/20/97 Farmington Hills, Mich./New Jersey Titans (NAHL) 44 Butrus Ghafari D So. L 7/4/96 West Bloomfield, Mich./Bloomington Thunder (USHL) 45 Ed Minney G Sr. L 3/29/96 Wind Gap, Pa./USNTDP U Mitch Eliot D So. R 2/6/98 Grosse Pointe, Mich./Muskegon Lumberjacks (USHL) 55 Patrick Khodorenko F So. L 10/13/98 Walnut Creek, Calif./USNTDP U Jerad Rosburg D R-So. L 6/18/96 Clarksville, Md./Sioux City Musketeers (USHL) 71 Logan Lambdin F So. L 11/1/95 Newport, Mich./Bloomington Thunder (USHL) Head Coach: Danton Cole (First season, Michigan State 89) Assistant Coaches: Joe Exter (First season, Merrimack 03) Chris Luongo (First season, Michigan State 90) Goaltending Coach: Jason Muzzatti (Third season, Michigan State 91) Director of Hockey Operations: Brad Fast (Third season, Michigan State 03) MICHIGAN STATE HOCKEY alphabetical roster 11 Tommy Apap F Fr. 7 Damian Chrcek D So. 52 Mitch Eliot D So. 28 Gianluca Esteves F Fr. 18 Carson Gatt D Sr. 44 Butrus Ghafari D So. 17 Taro Hirose F So. 24 Austin Kamer F Fr. 19 David Keefer F Fr. 55 Patrick Khodorenko F So. 71 Logan Lambdin F So. 31 John Lethemon G So. 9 Mitchell Lewandowski F Fr. 23 Cody Milan F Jr. 12 Tommy Miller D Fr. 45 Ed Minney G Sr. 2 Zach Osburn D Jr. 14 Dylan Pavelek F Sr. 57 Jerad Rosburg D R-So. 10 Sam Saliba F So. 13 Brennan Sanford F Jr. 4 Anthony Scarsella D So. 21 Jake Smith F Fr. 16 Brody Stevens F Fr. 41 Spencer Wright G So. pronunciation guide Apap...a-PAP Chrcek...Check Butrus Ghafari...BOO-tris Guh-far-E Taro Hirose...Tar-oh Her-O-see Kamer... KAY-mer Khodorenko...Koh-doe-rink-OH Lethemon... Leth-a-min Milan...My-LIN Pavelek...Pav-lick Saliba... Suh-lee-buh 3

4 1966, 1986, 2007 THREE-TIME NCAA CHAMPIONS COVERING THE SPARTANS MEDIA CREDENTIALS All requests for media credentials must be placed with Jeff Barnes in the MSU Athletic Communications Office at least 48 hours in advance of the game. Priority for issuance of credentials will be given to daily newspapers and television stations which regularly cover the hockey program. All credentials for print media are issued on basis of circulation. Upon acceptance of application, appropriate credentials are held for pickup at the media will-call window at the media entrance (north entrance, facing Demonstration Hall). Credentials are non-transferrable and must be displayed at all times. A credential is issued only to an accredited agency s employee who has a legitimate working function in connection with the event. Children under 12 or of NCAA prospect age are not permitted in the MSU press facilities. WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE Coach Cole will hold a weekly press conference throughout the season on Tuesdays. Location and schedule changes are communicated through the hockey media list maintained in the Athletic Communications office; the schedule is subject to change based on coaches schedules, idle weeks in the playing schedule, or university calendar. INTERVIEWS All interviews may be arranged through Jeff Barnes in the athletic communications office, and are most helpful if requests are made 24 hours in advance of the interview. Player contact information will not be made available to reporters, per Department of Athletics policy. MSU players are available for interviews on Tuesday (following Coach Cole s press conference) until 2:45 p.m., prior to or after practice daily. Hockey practice is open to the media, but we ask that you please make arrangements in advance if you are planning to shoot B-roll or would like to conduct interviews. In addition to press conferences and practice, head coach Danton Cole is also available for telephone interviews during the week. POST-GAME INTERVIEWS The Michigan State locker room will be open for a period of 10 minutes after the mandatory 10-minute cooldown period. Coach Cole will host a press conference shortly after the conclusion of player availability in the locker room. Interviews with the visiting coach and players should be arranged through the visiting SID. The visiting locker room is below the south stands and can be accessed through the visiting player tunnel. VIDEO FOOTAGE REQUESTS Requests for video footage can be made through team video producer Justin Garant. PARKING Media parking is in lot 79W, with an entrance off of Shaw Lane at the south end of Spartan Stadium. PRESS BOX Michigan State s working press facilities are located on the south side of Munn Ice Arena. The press box is located in a raised area above the south concourse. Working press, radio and television personnel are assigned space in the working area; scouts and players are not permitted in the press box at any time as per MSU, Big Ten and NCAA rules. The MSU press box is a working press box and under NCAA rules. Credentials must be displayed at all times; abuse of working media credentials will be grounds for removal from the press box, and could result in the rejection of future credential requests. RADIO BROADCASTS A maximum of three seats are provided for each broadcast. Opponent radio stations wishing to broadcast from Munn Arena are asked to make arrangements through both the visiting team s SID and Jeff Barnes no less than one week prior to the game. Space is available for one station per school to broadcast each game. TELEVISION Special arrangements must be made through Athletic Communications and Matt McCulloch at for television broadcasts. Television stations shooting highlights will be allotted space on the TV/photo deck below the press box. PHOTOGRAPHERS All photographers are required to check in at the press box to discuss position assignments no later one hour prior to the game and credentials must be worn while shooting. PROFESSIONAL SCOUTS All professional scouts are welcome and may gain entrance to the building on gamenights by showing their NHL-issued identification card at the east entrance of Munn Ice Arena, facing Spartan Stadium (Chestnut Road entrance). If necessary, a scout may obtain a game ticket for an upcoming contest through the MSU Hockey office ( ). In accordance with NCAA Rules, scouts are not allowed access to the press box. SERVICES Complete game summaries (shot charts, game summary, etc.) will be distributed at the conclusion of each period and at the end of the game. Wireless internet access is available for accredited media. Any outlet (print or broadcast) requiring exclusive phone service should have their own lines installed at least one week prior to the game at the outlet s expense. MSUSPARTANS.COM Updated releases, statistics, game notes, player features and interviews are available on the official web site of MSU Athletics. The weekly release also is available via . 4 MSUSPARTANS.COM

5 COVERING THE SPARTANS SPARTAN SPORTS NETWORK Listeners can tune in to every Spartan game, home and away, with play-by-play man Scott Moore calling the action. Joining Moore as color commentator for his 11th season is former Spartan forward Rob Woodward. Moore, in his 21st season as the MSU hockey radio voice, has been broadcasting sports in the mid-michigan area for over 30 years. Broadcasts are available on WJIM-AM 1240, WFVN-AM 730; SpartanSportsNetwork.com and the Spartan Sports Network 24/7 mobile app. DANTON COLE RADIO SHOW The Spartan Sports Network produces and distributes the Danton Cole Radio Show on Tuesdays from 7-8 p.m. ET. Originating from Reno s East at 1310 Abbot Road in East Lansing. The Show can be heard locally on flagship station WJIM-AM Weekly special guests join MSU play-by-play announcer Scott Moore, analyst Rob Woodward and head coach Danton Cole, discussing an array of topics in and outside the world of sports. On days when the show conflicts with men s basketball games, it will be moved to either Monday or Wednesday. Check the hockey page at MSUSpartans.com for the most up-to-date schedule. SOCIAL MEDIA Michigan State hockey maintains several social media accounts to keep you up-to-date with everything happening in the SPARTAN HOCKEY ALL-ACCESS The popular, Emmy-winning Spartan Hockey All-Access television show will return this season to Fox Sports Detroit and MSUSpartans.com. The show, produced by SpartanVision within MSU athletic communications, takes viewers behind the scenes of Spartan hockey with exclusive content, interviews and highlights. The show has won Michigan Emmy Awards in 2015 and MICHIGAN STATE HOCKEY MICHIGAN STATE ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS ADDRESS: 550 S. Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI ASSOCIATE AD/COMMUNICATIONS Matt Larson DIRECTOR, ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Jamie Baldwin ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Ben Phlegar, Jeff Barnes, Kara Fisher, Zach Fisher, Mex Carey HOCKEY CONTACT: Jeff Barnes Assistant Director, Athletic Communications jbarnes@ath.msu.edu DIRECTOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN Kyle Barnes STAFF ASSISTANTS Grace Amberg, Chelsey Stoa OFFICE ASSISTANT Paulette Martis SENIOR ALL-ACCESS PRODUCER Justin Garant DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL CONTENT Nick Baker VIDEO PRODUCERS Bob Armstrong, Jacob Huber, Ben Owen, Matt McCulloch, Julian Stall 5

6 1966, 1986, 2007 THREE-TIME NCAA CHAMPIONS COLLEGE HOCKEY MEDIA DIRECTORY BIG TEN CONFERENCE 5440 Park Place, Rosemont, IL Phone: (847) bigten.org Commissioner... James E. Delany Director of Communications... Adam Augustine School SID Office Phone Press Box # Website Michigan TJ Garske tgarske@umich.edu mgoblue.com Michigan State Jeff Barnes jbarnes@ath.msu.edu msuspartans.com Minnesota Brian Deutch deuts060@umn.edu gophersports.com Ohio State Leann Parker parker.387@osu.edu ohiostatebuckeyes.com Penn State John Hanna jrh486@psu.edu gopsusports.com Wisconsin Paul Capobianco phc@athletics.wisc.edu uwbadgers.com ATLANTIC HOCKEY ASSOCIATION 7 Parkridge Road, Haverhill, MA Phone: ( 978) atlantichockeyonline.com Commissioner...Robert M. DeGregorio, Jr Director of Media Relations...Steffan Watters (swatters@atlantichockeyonline.com) School SID Office Phone Press Box # Website Air Force Dave Toller dave.toller@usafa.edu GoAirForceFalcons.com American Int l Sarah Kirkpatrick sarah.kirkpatrick@aic.edu aicyellowjackets.com Army Ally Keirn alexandra.keirn@usma.edu goarmysports.com Bentley Kyle Mack kmack@bentley.edu bentley.edu/athletics Canisius Jarret Abelson abelsonj@canisius.edu gogriffs.com Connecticut Bill Peterson william.peterson@uconn.edu uconnhuskies.com Holy Cross Jim Wrobel jwrobel@holycross.edu goholycross.com Mercyhurst Josh Reilly jreilly@mercyhurst.edu hurstathletics.com Niagara Joseph Ray jray@niagara.edu purpleeagles.com Robert Morris Ashley Chase sidga01@rmu.edu rmucolonials.com RIT Joe Venniro jtvsid@rit.edu ritathletics.com Sacred Heart Brian Duane duaneb@mail.sacredheart.edu sacredheartpioneers.com EASTERN COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE HOCKEY 51 South Pearl Street, Albany, N.Y Phone: (518) ecachockey.com/men Commissioner...Steve Hagwell Assoc. Commissioner...Ed Krajewski (ekrajewski@ecachockey.com) School SID Office Phone Press Box # Website Brown Eric Peterson Eric_Peterson@brown.edu /3518 brownbears.com Clarkson Gary Mikel mikelg@clarkson.edu clarksonathletics.com Colgate Kevin Noonan knoonan@colgate.edu gocolgateraiders.com Cornell Brandon Thomas blt44@cornell.edu cornellbigred.com Dartmouth Pat Salvas Patrick.Salvas@Dartmouth.edu dartmouthsports.com Harvard Jeff Weinstein weinsteinj@fas.harvard.edu gocrimson.com Princeton Kristy McNeil mcneil@princeton.edu goprincetontigers.com Quinnipiac Ken Sweeten kfsweeten@quinnipiac.edu quinnipiacbobcats.com Rensselaer Perry Laskaris laskap2@rpi.edu rpiathletics.com St. Lawrence Aaron Todd atodd@stlawu.edu stlawu.edu/sports Union Eric McDowell mcdowele@union.edu unionathletics.com Yale Steve Conn steven.conn@yale.edu yalebulldogs.com 6 MSUSPARTANS.COM

7 COLLEGE HOCKEY MEDIA DIRECTORY HOCKEY EAST ASSOCIATION 591 North Ave., Door #2, Wakefield, MA Phone: (781) hockeyeastonline.com Commissioner... Joe Bertagna Assoc. Commissioner...Kathy Wynters Asst. Commissioner/Communications...Brian Smith School SID Office Phone Press Box # Website Boston College Stephanie Tunnera tunnera@bc.edu bceagles.com Boston University Brian Kelley bkelley@bu.edu goterriers.com Maine Katie Peverada katie.peverada@maine.edu goblackbears.com Massachusetts Jillian Jakuba jjakuba@admin.umass.edu umassathletics.com UMass-Lowell Pete Souris peter_souris@uml.edu goriverhawks.com Merrimack Chris Aliano alianoc@merrimack.edu merrimackathletics.com New Hampshire Mike Murphy mike.murphy@unh.edu unhwildcats.com Northeastern Matt Houde m.houde@northeastern.edu gonu.com Notre Dame Dan Colleran dcollera@nd.edu und.com Providence Mike Billings mbillin2@providence.edu friars.com Vermont Alastair Ingram alastair.ingram@uvm.edu uvmathletics.com NATIONAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY CONFERENCE 1631 Mesa Ave., Ste. C, Colorado Springs, CO Phone: (700) nchchockey.com Commissioner...Josh Fenton Director of Communications... Michael Weisman School SID Office Phone Press Box # Website Colorado College Jerry Cross jerry.cross@coloradocollege.edu cctigers.com Denver Rick Bowness richard.bowness@du.edu denverpioneers.com Miami Chad Twaro twaroc@miamioh.edu miamiredhawks.com Minnesota Duluth Bob Nygaard bnygaard@d.umn.edu umdbulldogs.com Nebraska-Omaha Dave Ahlers dahlers@omavs.com omavs.com North Dakota Jayson Hajdu jayson.hajdu@athletics.und.edu /3572 undsports.com St. Cloud State Tom Nelson tcnelson@stcloudstate.edu scsuhuskies.com Western Michigan Adam Bodnar adam.e.bodnar@wmich.edu wmubroncos.com MICHIGAN STATE HOCKEY WESTERN COLLEGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION Minnesota State University, Mankato at Edina, 7700 France Avenue South, Suite 360 Edina, MN Phone: (952) wcha.com Commissioner...Bill Robertson Assoc. Commissioner/Public Relations...Matt Hodson School SID Office Phone Press Box # Website Alabama-Huntsville Sam Baldwin samuel.baldwin@uah.edu uahchargers.com Alaska Anchorage Nate Sagan nssagan@alaska.edu goseawolves.com Alaska Nona Letuligasenoa nona.l@alaska.edu alaskananooks.com Bemidji State Brad Folkestad bfolkestad@bemidjistate.edu bsubeavers.com Bowling Green Jenna Jorgenson jjorgen@bgsu.edu bgsufalcons.com Ferris State Rob Bentley bentleyr@ferris.edu ferrisstatebulldogs.com Lake Superior State Joe Gorby jgorby@lssu.edu lssulakers.com Michigan Tech Calvin Larson calarson@mtu.edu michigantechhuskies.com Minn. State, Mankato Paul Allan paul.allan@mnsu.edu msumavericks.com Northern Michigan Jen Dobias jedobias@nmu.edu nmuwildcats.com 7

8 1966, 1986, 2007 THREE-TIME NCAA CHAMPIONS MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT LOU ANNA K. SIMON, PH.D. Lou Anna K. Simon, the 20th president of Michigan State University, leads the university s work to advance the common good in Michigan and around the world. Simon earned her doctorate at Michigan State in 1974 and held a variety of administrative roles at the university, including assistant provost for general academic administration, associate provost, and provost and vice president for academic affairs. The MSU Board of Trustees appointed her president in January As president, Simon has engaged Michigan State in a strategic and transformative journey to adapt the principles of its land-grant heritage to 21st-century challenges. Her initiatives in learning, research, and international engagement reflect MSU s commitment to applying knowledge to benefit society. She outlined these commitments and the philosophy behind them in her monograph, Embracing the World Grant Ideal: Affirming the Morrill Act for a Twenty-first-century Global Society. Simon s vision includes building an inclusive and engaged academic community where every student graduates as a skilled and sought-after citizen-scholar. MSU s Student Success initiative is critical to that effort, and its outcomes are reflected in Michigan State s top standing for student engagement among public research universities. With the support of external funding now exceeding $580 million annually, Simon helps ensure that MSU is making an enduring difference regionally and globally by finding solutions to the world s great challenges. She has expanded MSU s reach through its internationally regarded research in food, water, education and social sciences, engineering, and advanced physical sciences. She also leads its commitment to working at the forefront of emerging opportunities in areas such as bioengineering, medicine and genomics, advanced mobility, and computation. Simon is a past chair and current board member of the Association of American Universities, a group of 62 leading U.S. and Canadian research universities. She is a member of the American Council on Education and, as a past chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Executive Committee, serves as an ex officio administrative committee member. She is a long-standing member of the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. Simon s activity in economic development has placed her on the Council on Competitiveness and the Business-Higher Education Forum, both national organizations focused on U.S. economic competitiveness and prosperity. She serves on the board of directors of Business Leaders for Michigan and is past chair of the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She also is an advisory committee member of the Detroit Innovation District, which promotes small business growth and job creation in the city. Building on more than 50 years of development work and research in Africa by MSU faculty members, Simon is a member of the executive committee of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa and speaks to scholarly international gatherings about global food and development issues. BOARD OF TRUSTEES BRIAN BRESLIN Alto / Chairman DIANNE BYRUM Onandoga DAN KELLY Clarkston BRIAN MOSALLAM Dearborn JOEL FERGUSON Lansing / Vice Chairman MELANIE FOSTER East Lansing MITCH LYONS Rockford GEORGE PERLES East Lansing For biographical information, visit trustees.msu.edu 8 MSUSPARTANS.COM

9 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS MARK HOLLIS We gather and engage our community to teach, support and celebrate our student-athletes in their quest for excellence. This is the vision Michigan State Athletics Director Mark Hollis has for Spartan Athletics. Hollis, who was named the 2012 Athletic Director of the Year by Street & Smith s SportsBusiness Journal/Daily, is in his 10th year leading the MSU Athletics Department. He officially assumed the role of MSU s 18th athletics director on Jan. 1, 2008, succeeding Ron Mason. Hollis has more than 30 years of athletics administration experience, either at the school or conference level. His well-rounded background has led to his knowledge of all areas within an athletics department, including marketing, financial administration, television negotiations, fund-raising, game operations, facility management, personnel policy, corporate interaction, sports management and public relations. A 1985 MSU graduate, Hollis returned to his alma mater in 1995 as the associate athletics director for external relations. Since then, he has been a critical component of the athletic department executive management staff, helping guide the department through short- and long-range plans. In addition, Hollis spent five years on the NCAA Division I Men s Basketball Committee and served as the committee chair in He also was a former chair of the NCAA Division I Amateurism Cabinet and a former member of the NCAA s Men s Basketball Issues Committee. Since his official appointment as athletics director began in 2008, Hollis has led one of the most successful periods in the history of Michigan State athletics. The Spartans have won one national championship (2014 women s cross country) and 30 Big Ten Championships (regular season and tournament), appeared in three Final Fours and eight bowl games, and own nine top-50 finishes in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup. In addition, during Hollis tenure as an administrator at MSU, the Spartans have appeared in 20 consecutive men s basketball NCAA Tournaments the longest streak in Big Ten history and the thirdlongest active streak in the nation and seven Final Fours. The football team appeared in the 2015 College Football Playoff and has also won the Rose Bowl (2014) and Cotton Bowl (2015) in addition to three Big Ten titles in Hollis tenure. Hollis is credited with developing some of college athletics most innovative events. It was his vision that led to Michigan State playing North Carolina in November 2011 in the first basketball game to be played on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. In 2003, Hollis was the architect of the BasketBowl, which established a then-world record crowd of 78,129 who witnessed the Michigan State-Kentucky game at Detroit s Ford Field. The concept, which involves placing the court in the center of a football stadium, has been used at the last eight NCAA Final Fours. In 2001, Hollis helped mastermind the Michigan State-Michigan outdoor hockey game that attracted a then world-record crowd of 74,554 in Spartan Stadium. His ingenuity and experience in intercollegiate athletics led to his induction into the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA) Hall of Fame in June Future events Hollis designed include a 16-team men s college basketball tournament with Nike-sponsored schools in Portland, Oregon, in November 2017 to celebrate Nike President Phil Knight s 80th birthday. Hollis was instrumental in landing a strategic long-range partnership between MSU Athletics and FOX Sports that was announced in April The two parties agreed to a new multimedia rights deal effective for the academic year in which MSU will grant FOX Sports marketing and corporate partnership rights associated with its 25 varsity sports programs. The rights will be managed by FOX Sports College Properties, a division of FOX-owned Home Team Sports, and will include in-venue signage, print, radio, television programming, corporate hospitality, digital and social media integration, promotional and experiential activities, and intellectual property rights and official designations. The 15-year agreement will provide guaranteed revenues in excess of $150 million. In June 2015, Hollis was named the recipient of the National Football Foundation John L. Toner Award, which is presented annually to an athletics director who has demonstrated superior administrative abilities and shown outstanding dedication to college athletics and particularly college football. Hollis was officially honored at the 58th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 8, 2015, in New York City. During Hollis tenure, Michigan State student-athletes have excelled not only in competition, but in the classroom as well. For 13 consecutive semesters, Spartan student-athletes have posted better than a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average. More than 400 student-athletes (426) posted a cumulative GPA above 3.0 in the spring semester of 2017, marking the highest total in the history of the department for the spring, and 18 teams maintained a cumulative 3.0 GPA. The spring semester of 2017 also saw Spartan student-athletes compile both the highest spring term in program history (3.1009) and the highest cumulative grade-point average in department history at Additionally, 291 student-athletes earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and 102 garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades throughout the academic year. Furthermore, 315 student-athletes were honored at the 2017 SASS Academic Excellence Gala (student-athletes with at least a sophomore academic standing and a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA). Eight teams advanced to their respective NCAA Championships in , including the men s basketball team, which extended its NCAA Tournament streak to 20, the fourth-longest in NCAA history. The women s golf team won its fifth Big Ten title in the last decade to extend Michigan State s run of winning at least one Big Ten Championship to 21 consecutive years. Another six programs were represented by individuals at NCAA Championship events. Headlined by a Big Ten Championship in football, the school s third conference title in six years, the Spartans finished in the top 50 of the Learfield Sports Directors Cup standings for an 18th consecutive year in Michigan State earned a berth in the College Football Playoff following its victory over No. 4 Iowa in the Big Ten Championship Game and finished in the top 10 of the national polls for the third season in a row (No. 3 in 2013, No. 4 in 2014, No. 6 in 2016), a first for the program since The men s basketball team set a conference record by winning its fifth Big Ten Tournament title and established a Big Ten record by advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the 19th year in a row. Men s and women s cross country, men s and women s golf, volleyball, women s basketball, and women s gymnastics also advanced to their respective NCAA Championships. Spartan athletic facilities have been upgraded at an unprecedented rate the past decade including more than $115 million at Spartan Stadium and will only continue to improve under Hollis. A $13 million addition to the south end of Spartan Stadium is scheduled to open prior to the 2017 season. Construction on the 20,000-square-foot single-story project, which began in February 2017, will include the addition of 236 bathrooms, four concession stand areas, and movement of the ticket entrances out from the stadium structure to create donor plazas and renovated gates similar to the North End Zone. A $24.5 million project to the north end of Spartan Stadium was completed in August 2014 that features a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition as well as an entrance plaza, renovated gates, and additional restrooms and concessions. The building includes new locker rooms for teams, coaches and officials, a media center, and an engagement center for all varsity sports. Former All-America offensive lineman Flozell Adams provided a leadership gift of $1.5 million for MSU s new locker room, which is named in honor of his later mother, Rachel Adams. Prior to the 2012 season, $10 million scoreboards, totaling 13,300-square-feet, were installed in the north and south end zones, giving MSU one of the top video board systems in the nation. The Spartans moved into one of the nation s finest football facilities in August 2008, as a $15 million expansion and renovation project for the Duffy Daugherty Football Building was completed. MSU alumni Robert and Julie Skandalaris of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, donated $5 million as the lead gift for the facility expansion and upgrade. The Skandalaris Football Center includes team, staff and position meeting rooms, coaches offices and a hall of history. In the summer of 2015, the Spartans opened a renovated locker room in addition to a new MICHIGAN STATE HOCKEY 9

10 1966, 1986, 2007 THREE-TIME NCAA CHAMPIONS state-of-the-art Sports Medicine and Performance Center in the Skandalaris Football Center. Hollis vision of the entire athletics administration working in the same building will come true this fall as the Michigan State Athletic Department moves into the brand new 1855 Place on Harrison Road, across the street from the Breslin Center. The mixed-use 102,000-squarefoot office building, which also houses MSU Residential and Hospitality Services, will include administration, athletic communications, business office, compliance, sales and marketing, Spartan Fund and the Spartan Ticket Office. In October 2015, a major facilities upgrade focused on improving the visitor experience and the construction of a Michigan State University Basketball Hall of History at the Breslin Student Events Center was approved by the MSU Board of Trustees. The $50 million project will be funded by the university ($30 million) and MSU Athletics ($20 million). The work began in January 2016 and substantial completion is expected by October 2017, with final completion set for June The improvements that will be addressed include: expanding and improving concession areas and concourses; improving bathroom facilities; upgrading passenger and freight elevators; improving exterior entrances and parking lots; and replacing chiller and water connections. The project also features a 26,000-square-foot addition that will house the MSU Basketball Hall of History. The Draymond Green Strength and Conditioning Center will be constructed below the Hall of History. Numerous Olympic sports have also seen their facilities upgraded on campus. On June 1, 2016, the Lasch Family Golf Center, the new 15,000-square-foot home of the MSU men s and women s golf teams, was officially dedicated. The $6 million facility includes an indoor practice area, student-athlete lounge, men s and women s locker rooms, coaches offices, video room, weight room and a kitchen area featuring nutrition/ hydration stations. The MSU Board of Trustees voted to approve naming the facility the Lasch Family Golf Center in June 2015 after Richard W. (Rick) and Suzanne Lasch of East Lansing made a $2 million gift toward the building. In addition, more than $6 million has been spent on updates to Munn Ice Arena since 2014, including new video boards, chairback seating, concourse improvement and ice improvements. In 2008, the men s and women s soccer programs opened DeMartin Stadium, a 2,500-seat facility that enables MSU to host conference and national tournaments. The baseball program played its inaugural season in McLane Baseball Stadium in 2009 following a $4 million donation to the 2,500-seat ballpark by former Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane Jr. In 2011, with the help of a $1 million gift by alumnus Ambassador Peter F. Secchia the largest cash (outright) gift received by an MSU women s intercollegiate sports program Secchia Stadium, a 1,100-seat facility located at Old College Field, opened for the softball program. Michigan State had another banner year in , as the women s cross country team captured the first-ever women s NCAA Championship in school history, the men s basketball team advanced to the Final Four, the football team defeated No. 4 Baylor in the Cotton Bowl Classic, and long distance runner Leah O Connor captured an individual national championship in track (indoor mile). The women s cross country team also won its second straight Big Ten Championship and the women s track and field team won its first outdoor Big Ten title since In addition, the men s soccer team advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight for the second consecutive season, the volleyball team earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth year in a row, and the men s cross country team placed 24th at the NCAA Championships. The Spartans closed the fall season ranked No. 5 in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup standings. Men s basketball not only reached the NCAA Tournament for the 18th straight year, tying a Big Ten record, it made a run to the Final Four for the ninth time in school history. In addition to winning the Big Ten outdoor title, the women s track and field team posted Top 25 finishes at the NCAA Indoor (24th) and Outdoor (20th) Championships. Michigan State finished 34th in the final Directors Cup standings. Fueled by six Big Ten Championships (regular season and tournament), which tied the department record, Michigan State placed 29th in the Directors Cup standings, tied for the fourth best in department history and second highest under Hollis. Led by the Big Ten and Rose Bowl Championship football team, the Spartans closed the fall season at No. 2 in the Directors Cup. MSU won a school-record 13 games, finished No. 3 in both national polls, defeated No. 5 Stanford in the 100th Rose Bowl Game, and topped No. 2 Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship Game. On the hardwood, men s basketball won its fourth Big Ten Tournament title and reached the Elite Eight, while the women s team claimed its second Big Ten regular-season championship in four years and received its sixth consecutive NCAA bid. On the playing field in , Michigan State ranked 30th in the Directors Cup standings. In , MSU won three Big Ten Championships (women s cross country, men s basketball and women s golf) and finished 34th overall in the Directors Cup standings. Michigan State won five Big Ten Championships in The football team won a then school-record 11 games and claimed the program s seventh Big Ten Championship, the baseball team won its first Big Ten title since 1979, while the women s cross country, women s basketball and women s golf teams also won conference championships. In , the men s basketball team advanced to the Final Four for the sixth time in 12 years and won its second straight Big Ten regularseason title, and field hockey captured both the Big Ten regular-season and tournament championships. In Hollis first full season as athletics director in , Michigan State enjoyed one of its most successful years of the decade with a 27thplace finish in the Directors Cup, the best showing for the department since 2003 and the third highest in the department s history. Ten teams earned bids to their respective NCAA Championships, led by men s basketball, which reached the national title game while also winning the Big Ten regular-season championship. Hollis was named athletics director designate on Sept. 12, 2007, and teamed with Mason in the transition throughout the fall of Prior to his official appointment as athletics director, Hollis played a lead role in two significant head coaching searches during the year. He spearheaded the effort to hire Mark Dantonio as football coach, which has resulted in nine bowl appearances, three Big Ten Championships (2010, 2013, 2015), a Rose Bowl Championship (2014) and a College Football Playoff appearance (2015). He also provided major assistance in the hiring of women s basketball coach Suzy Merchant in the spring of 2007, who has brought MSU to eight NCAA Tournaments. Hollis first hire as athletics director arrived on July 2, 2008, when he tabbed Jake Boss Jr. to direct the Spartan baseball program. Hollis was named the associate athletics director for external relations at Michigan State in November He coordinated marketing and promotions, community relations, special-event fundraising, sports information, ticket operations, spirit groups, broadcast services and corporate sponsorships. He received the National Marketer of the Year Award by NACMA in May Prior to returning to Michigan State, Hollis spent two years at the University of Pittsburgh as assistant and associate athletic director. Before his stint at Pitt, Hollis worked for the Western Athletic Conference. He joined the WAC as an administrative assistant immediately after college. Two years later, he was appointed assistant to the commissioner and soon thereafter was promoted to assistant commissioner. Hollis earned his bachelor of arts degree in communication from Michigan State in 1985, where he served as a basketball team manager under Jud Heathcote. In 1992, he earned his MBA in business administration from the University of Colorado. He and his wife Nancy, have a daughter, Katy, and two sons, T.R. and Michael. 10 MSUSPARTANS.COM

11 CLARENCE L. BIGGIE MUNN ICE ARENA Clarence L. Biggie Munn Ice Arena, recognized as one of the finest collegiate hockey facilities in the country, has been the site of countless memorable games and the home sheet for some of the greatest teams in Michigan State history. Munn Ice Arena regularly welcomes one of the best home crowds in the collegiate game and provides an undeniable advantage as Spartan teams have posted an all-time winning percentage of.682 in the building. The building, which was dedicated Nov. 1, 1974, has received several upgrades over the past few years as a part of a broader renovation to the facility which will occur in the near future. The recent improvements to Munn since the fall of 2014 include: high-definition video boards, LED ribbon boards, increased chairback seating, replacement of all bleacher seating, increased ADA compliant seating sections, theatrical lighting, concourse décor and dressing room décor and graphics. With nearly 3,000 chairback seats and several ADA platforms installed in 2015, the official capacity of Munn Arena is now 6,114. Prior to the start of the season, the building s ice plant and HVAC systems were completely replaced, along with adding new boards and glass at the cost of over $6 million. In the summer of 2013, Munn became one of the first college hockey arenas to install an LED lighting system. In the summer of 2010, the home dressing room was renovated, providing players with new, more modern lockers to compliment the adjoining dry room which was built two years prior. The administrative offices and team academic room received a facelift in the summer of 2007, and in 2008, custom-built hot and cold tubs, made possible by the generous donation of several former Spartans, were added in the athletic training facility. The first major renovation to the facility took place during the season when luxury boxes, club seating and a new press box were added. When Munn Ice Arena, named in honor of late Spartan football coach and athletic director Biggie Munn, was built, it was a smashing attendance success. With the Spartans playing exciting and winning hockey, Munn Ice Arena drew 118,875 during its first year of operation in and 154,880 in , a mark that still stands for total home attendance in ATTENDANCE RECORDS single-game 1. 7,225 Michigan, 11/10/ ,121 Michigan, 3/1/ ,117 Michigan, 1/7/ ,116 Western Michigan, 2/17/ ,113 Michigan, 2/15/ ,103 Michigan, 2/10/ ,099 Michigan, 11/14/ ,092 Michigan, 11/3/ ,072 Michigan, 1/26/ ,994 Wisconsin, 3/7/15 series 1. 14,028 Michigan 1/26/08-2/22/ ,834 Northern Michigan, 2/11-12/ ,780 Lake Superior State, 2/13-14/ ,760 Alaska Fairbanks, 2/18-19/ ,736 Providence 3/23-24/ ,715 Ferris State, 10/20/01-3/2/ ,665 Bowling Green, 11/30/86-2/6/ ,650 Northern Michigan, 11/9-10/ ,632 Lake Superior State, 2/21-22/ ,624 Maine, 11/21-22/86 MUNN ARENA QUICK FACTS Full name:...clarence L. Biggie Munn Ice Arena Opened:...Nov. 1, 1974 Capacity:...6,114 Ice surface: x 85 feet Consecutive regular-season sellouts: (Dec. 19, 1985 to March 5, 2004) MSU record during streak: (.762) home attendance:... 72,571 (16 games) Overall Record at Munn: (.682) Single-season record:...157,567 fans ( ) Single-game record:... 7,225 vs. Michigan (Nov. 10, 2012) one season. The Spartans sold out their game against Northern Michigan on Dec. 19, 1985, and Munn Ice Arena has routinely featured raucous home crowds since. Munn had a sellout streak which lasted more than 17 full seasons and 323 consecutive regular-season games from MSU drew at least 100,000 fans for 25 consecutive seasons and set a single-season record with an average of 6,722 fans in In , Munn Arena saw two of the top-10 home crowds in the history of the building: on Feb 17, 2007, 7,116 fans were on hand for the game against Western Michigan, while 7,092 watched a Nov. 3 victory over archrival Michigan. The Spartans have had two of the building s 10 largest crowds over the past five seasons, including a record 7,225 fans watch a victory over Michigan on Nov. 10, 2012 and 6,994 spectators see MSU complete a weekend sweep of Wisconsin on March 7, Accessible from entrances on all four sides, the upper spectator viewing area includes excellent sight lines for all seating, ancillary public concourse facilities and several ADA-compliant seating platforms. The lower level contains service areas for building maintenance, as well as offices and quarters for varsity, intramural and visiting teams. A training room, weight room, equipment room and players lounge are all located alongside the Spartan hockey locker room. Designed by Daverman Associates of Grand Rapids as a hockey-only facility, Munn Ice Arena avoids the scheduling conflicts found in other buildings. The ice surface, sized at 200-feet-by-85-feet for North American-rules play. The press box, located on the south side of the arena, serves approximately 40 people with three rows of seating. Platforms for television and still cameras are located on the north and south concourses at center ice. Built into the natural slope of the rolling terrain, the structure gives the impression of being underground, since no external walls are visible. Clear span roof trusses form an angular roof profile and help provide acoustic control within the arena. The area surrounding the building serves as a teaching and demonstration area for landscape architecture, botany and horticulture students MICHIGAN STATE HOCKEY 11