![]() And to be able to beat some of the best teams in the country before going to the national championship really makes for a great motivational speech to your team that, look, we can do this. But we're not playing for the trophy, we’re playing for the spot in the national championship. “The only sad thing about it is there's no trophy for the team or for Brooke for winning. “Anything you can do for the first time, I would say ranks pretty high,” said Slobodnik-Stoll, in her 26 th year as Michigan State’s coach. This will be the first time they do so as champions. This was the 23 rd time Michigan State played in a regional and it’s the 13 th time they’ll play in the NCAA Championship finals. There had been plenty of chances, of course. Historic actually nails it.įor all that Slobodnik-Stoll has accomplished in the game of golf - five-time Big Ten Coach of the Year and a member of both the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame - she had yet to lead the Spartans to a regional championship. But I have faith in them and they ended up doing amazing, too.”Īmazing is one way to put it. So I just kept telling myself to be patient because who knows what the rest of the team is doing. ![]() Not that I didn't believe that we could win, but it was a very tough course where you never know what's going on everywhere else. “When I made my par putt on 18, coach turned to me and said, ‘Oh my gosh, you won and so did the team,’” Biermann said. Just like that, Michigan State had earned its first regional championship and Biermann locked up co-medalist honors, the first Spartan ever to finish in the top spot. Of course, all she did was knock her tee shot a foot from the hole, tap in for birdie, then stroll down No. So we got to get to the point as a football team where we can put ourselves in a position where we could get in the postseason and hopefully make some noise.And considering coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll told her team before the round there was no need for anyone to be a hero, it stands to reason Biermann, who had just saved par out of the sand on No. We didn’t make the playoffs and that’s not good enough. "We don’t want to stay stagnant, and we appreciate and we are extremely proud of the success that we had last year, but we didn’t make the playoffs. “I (was asked at the combine) what’s the goal of the offseason, and I just said, 'Look, we don’t want to take a step back,'" Holmes said last month. One of the youngest teams in the NFL last season, the Lions revamped their secondary in free agency and added three potential Day 1 starters in the draft to a talented returning nucleus on both sides of the ball.īoth Lions coach Dan Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes have embraced the lofty expectations surrounding their team, with Holmes saying after the draft he believes the Lions have the talent to win a playoff game for the first time since the 1991 season. More: Detroit Lions won't play internationally this fall The Lions finished 9-8 last season and missed the playoffs for the sixth straight year, but won eight of their final 10 games (including that season finale against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field) and will enter this fall as the favorites to win the NFC North. The Lions have never played in the kickoff game since its inception in 2002, and last year they were not scheduled for any primetime games before being flexed into a Sunday night game − the final game of the regular season − in Week 18. Historically, the defending NFL champion has kicked off the season with a Thursday night game, but the primetime spot is new for the Lions. ![]()
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