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Huskies football gave us a great season

Going into Saturday’s contest at Saginaw Valley State, Michigan Tech Huskies football coach Dan Mettlach’s team had already had a good season, going 6-4 with a 3-3 record in GLIAC play. They had beaten Northern Michigan, which is a priority every year, Wayne State, and Roosevelt. They gave Davenport and Grand Valley State very good games in their conference losses. In fact, the only game the Huskies really struggled in was the one at Ferris State, where the Bulldogs won, 51-13. Mettlach did not pull any punches after that game. “Went exactly how it looked,” he said a couple ...

Huskies football continues to make strides under Mettlach

When Michigan Tech announced that Dan Mettlach was going to be the next head coach of the football program, I, for one, was very excited, not just because I know Mettlach on a personal level, but also because I have always felt like he had this vibe, for lack of a better word, that he would make a good coach. I can’t say whether it was because he was a quarterback, or it was because of the way he carried himself as an assistant coach both at Finlandia and at Michigan Tech, but I always felt like it was there. Mettlach’s task is, by no means, easy. The Huskies play in the Great ...

Leading by example

Michigan Tech Huskies hockey coach Joe Shawhan has really liked the play of a line he and his staff has put together of freshman center Tom Leppa, junior winger Trevor Kukkonen, and sophomore winger Lauri Raiman. Raiman had struggled to keep a regular spot in the lineup last season, especially in the second half of the season. Kukkonen, the older brother of Kyle, who is now at Wisconsin, had not really seen the ice in a game situation until this season, and Leppa is in his first season. However, the trio together is giving the Huskies something they need, leadership. No, the Huskies ...

Goodbye Daniel, and thanks for all the shoeys

As the checkered flag waves to mark the end of the F1 race this Sunday, it won’t matter what the order of drivers shows. Something will be missing. The race takes place at Circuit of the Americas, or COTA, which is located well off the beaten path outside of Austin, Texas. How that ...

Exhibition game showed Huskies have a ways to go

National Hockey League teams play exhibition games to give young players a chance to showcase what skills they bring to the table as they try to make the big club. Most veterans use exhibition games to tune themselves up for the season. Other veterans, like the youngsters, use exhibition games to either earn a job with the club they are completing for at that moment, or for another team. In the college game, teams are already set, at least as far as roster spots go. So, veteran players use exhibition games to tune up, and everyone else uses exhibition games to prove they are deserving ...

Huskies volleyball still figuring out its depth

While Michigan Tech Huskies volleyball coach Matt Jennings would no doubt feel better about where his team is at if its record was better than the 6-5 it is at the moment, there has been a lot for the Huskies to deal with already in this young season. They opened the season on the road in Golden, Colorado, battling three schools that competed in the NCAA Tournament last season, and a fourth that is a perennial contender. They defeated all four teams, which was enough to earn them a ranking the following week in the Top 25. However, that ranking disappeared as quickly as it appeared, ...