Author: <a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/author/michaelkovalchik/" target="_blank">Michael Kovalchik</a>

Author: Michael Kovalchik

Michael J. Kovalchik was a two-sport standout in college and a minor league baseball player in the Atlanta Braves system. He has also coached football, wrestling, and baseball. Since 1996, he has served as athletic director at Hillsdale College. Previously, he held the same post at Grand Valley State University for seven years. He has also directed athletics at Ohio Northern University and Jamestown College in North Dakota. He holds a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University and is a former U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force officer and Vietnam veteran.

Athletics at Hillsdale College

Sports and education are inextricably linked in American society. Ideally, they complement one another. Intercollegiate athletics strive to instill specific moral qualities that are meant to be lifelong attributes: sportsmanship, leadership, optimism, self-discipline, loyalty, dedication, commitment, effort, sacrifice, and honor. For over a century and a half, athletics and academics have prospered together at Hillsdale College. Trustees, administrators, faculty, staff, and students have all come to appreciate the fact that intercollegiate athletics play a vital part in the overall mission of the College, which, since 1844, has been to provide such instruction “as will best develop the minds and improve

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