A few weeks ago, we ran the sports schedules for Cedar Springs High Schools. One team was missing from the schedule—the ice hockey team. The team is made up of three schools: Coopersville (C), Cedar Springs (CS), and West Catholic (WC). Below is their team photo and the season schedule.

VARSITY: Front row, left to right: Noah Herzhaft (C), Brendan Hofmann (WC), Joel Kolenda (CS), Avery Matthews (CS), Tyler Messock (C), Lukas Jenkins (C), David Hoving (WC), Max Goodfellow (WC), Nathan Szyszko (C), Conner Julien (C).
Back row, left to right: Coach Jake Ochsner, Coach Mike Davey, Adam Bocian (WC), Danny Ebert (CS), Tyler Hofmann (WC), Isaac Oswald (C), Ian Waldecker (WC), Dawson Homik (C), Colin Jewell (WC), Jaydon Moleski (CS), Corbin Venckus (WC), Coach Alex Ostrowski, Head Coach Mike Maas.

Our congratulations to Cedar Springs senior #19 Jessica Plowman, who signed with Davenport University’s ACHA Division 1 Women’s Ice Hockey team on February 11, 2017 for the upcoming season. Jessica is currently playing for the U19 Grand Rapids Griffins Girls Travel Ice Hockey Team. She was voted by her teammates to be their Team Captain for the 2016-2017 season. Jessica has played at the U19 level for the past 3 out of 4 years with GRAHA (The Grand Rapids Amateur Hockey Association). Prior to that, she played roller hockey for 4-5 years.

Jessica’s love for this sport has far superseded all others. Jessica played travel soccer for three years, four years of basketball (including travel), nine years of dance, two years of tennis, and was on the Red Flannel Court for 2015-2016. Ultimately she gave up all other sports for her love of ice hockey. Jessica has played defense, offense and center; she is truly a team player and willing to step in wherever needed.

While at Davenport, Jessica will be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management, and go on to possibly become a cardiothoracic surgeon. She is excited to continue her education and hockey career at Davenport and is thankful for the support of her family and friends.

Jessica is the daughter of Joe and Lisa Plowman.

Cedar Rock Storm will hold JV Ice Hockey tryouts on Saturday, May 4, and Sunday May 5, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., at the Cedar Rock Sports Plex, 4758 Cornfield Dr. (just off Northland Dr.), Cedar Springs. The cost is $50 total.

Any school qualifies to play on the JV Club. Birth years eligible are 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. Coaches are Steve Obney and Devon DuBois.

The Cedar Rock Storm JV Ice Hockey team won the WMJVHL Tier III championships Monday March 11 at the Griff’s Ice House. They played the Lakeshore/St. Joe Warriors JV team and won in a hard fought game.  Both teams came to win and provided exciting and action packed three periods of hockey.

What is special about this win and this team is the boys played the entire season with just nine skaters and two goalies against teams that had double and triple the number of players. Despite being out numbered, the boys faced every game with gut, heart and hard work that clearly paid off. They surprised the league time and time again becoming the team to watch. Through sheer determination they made it to the playoffs and won all three of their playoff games and then the final championship game by a score of 3 to 1.

Top Row L-R: Coach Devon DuBois, Nick Fennessy, Robert Hiltz, Kyle Oberdorfer, Brandon Sipka, Coach Steve Obney
Front Row L-R: RJ Tennant, Maggie Voelkel, Spencer Bohlinger, Cole Davis, Cameron Umphrey, Joe Hughes and Ben Hopkins

Congratulations Cedar Rock Storm on a fantastic season!  The coaches and boys should be very proud of their accomplishments and the title of Champions.

The Cedar Rock Storm JV team consists of Brandon Sipka (Cedar Springs Sophomore), Kyle Oberdorfer (Cedar Springs Sophomore), Nick Fennessy (Cedar Springs Sophomore) Cameron Umphrey (Cedar Springs Freshman), Cole Davis (Cedar Springs Freshman), Robert Hiltz (Greenville Sophomore), Joe Hughes (Cedar Springs Junior), Spencer Bohlinger (Northview Freshman), Maggie Voelkel (Northview Junior), RJ Tennant (Cedar Springs Sophomore) and Ben Hopkins (Cedar Springs Junior), Coaches Devon DuBois and Steve Obney.

The Cedar Rock Storm JV team is based out of our very own Cedar Rock SportsPlex located just north of 14 mile on 4758 Cornfield Dr in Cedar Springs.  They have many programs and opportunities to learn how to skate and to play on ice hockey teams throughout the year. Tryouts for next year’s Cedar Rock JV team will be held in April so stay tuned to the cedarrocksportsplex.com for more details.