Grand Valley State University Baseball
Last College: Ashland (2000) Since his arrival at GVSU as an assistant coach in 2003, the Lakers have won eight GLIAC Championships and advanced to the NCAA Tournament all nine years. GVSU has appeared in eight NCAA Midwest Regional Championship games and advanced to the NCAA DII World Series five times (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2011). The Lakers' 2011 World Series appearance marked Detillion's sixth trip to the Division II World Series as he made the trip in 1999 as a player at Ashland University. The Lakers have also held weekly rankings in the NCAA Division II top 10 each of the past seven seasons, including GVSU's first-ever national #1 ranking in 2009 and multiple weeks at #1 in 2011. GVSU has been ranked as high as #3 in each of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons as well as a national runner-up finish in 2004. In nine seasons, 58 Laker position players have been named All-GLIAC and 46 have been named to post-season all-tournament teams. In addition, GVSU has set virtually every individual single-season and career record. Several GVSU team records have also been broken over the last seven seasons, including batting average, hits, runs, doubles, triples, RBIs, total bases and on-base percentage. Jamie was also a pitcher and first baseman from 1997-2000 at Ashland University. He earned NCAA DII first team All-American honors as a junior first baseman and was a four time All-GLIAC recipient as a first baseman/pitcher. Detillion left Ashland holding 17 individual records, including career home runs (46), and RBI's (203), single season home runs (23), RBI's (89), total bases (162), single game home runs (4) and RBI's (8). The single-game four home runs and 16 total bases are NCAA post-season single-game records for all divisions. Detillion is also among the leaders in career innings pitched (333.0) and wins (30) for the Eagles. Jamie led Ashland to the NCAA DII World Series in Montgomery, Ala. in 1999 where he led the tournament in hitting (8 for 12, .667 avg). In October of 2010, Detillion was inducted into the Ashland University Hall of Fame for his accomplishments. Detillion received his bachelor's of science in education from Ashland University in 2000 and his masters of education from GVSU in 2010. Jamie and his wife, Jill, are the proud parents of one son, Cannon James.
Experience: 22nd year Gordon Alderink is in his 22nd season as pitching coach for Grand Valley State, his 12th as an assistant under Steve Lyon. GVSU has ranked among GLIAC leaders in virtually every pitching category during Alderink's tenure. Alderink was named the 2006 National College Pitching Coach of the Year by Collegiate Baseball, a prestigious honor given to the top pitching coach in all divisions of the NCAA. Alderink has tutored eight All-Midwest Region pitchers in the past eight years, including a pair of American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) All-Americans. Matt Rafeld (2004), Grant Payton (2005), Jeremy Dow (2006), Andrew Benjamin (2009), Joe Jablonski (2010), Ryan Garman (2011), Kyle Schepel (2011) and Brad Zambron (2011) have earned ABCA All-Midwest Region honors, while Rafeld, Payton and Dow were all named GLIAC Pitchers of the Year. Payton tied the GVSU record for victories with 21 during his two years under Alderink's tutelage. Payton and Rafeld are the only two Laker pitchers to earn ABCA All-American honors. Alderink has guided seven of GVSU's top 10 in career victories in the last nine years. In 2011, the Lakers experienced perhaps their best team pitching performance in school history, GVSU notched team records in wins (52), saves (15) and shutouts (9) for a single season while collecting the first team ERA?under 3.00 since 1975 as the Lakers finished with a 2.58 ERA, third best in team history and seventh in the country for Division II. The 2011 Lakers also had 335 strikeouts, tied for the sixth best mark in school history. Alderink came to GVSU as an assistant professor in the Physical Therapy Program in 1984. He received his physical therapy training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. in 1978, Master's degree in kinesiology from the University of Michigan in 1983, and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Michigan State University in 2003. Up until 2010, Gordie continued as a fulltime Associate Professor in the Physical Therapy program where he taught courses in kinesiology, biomechanics, orthopaedic diagnosis, spinal manual therapy, and research design. His research interests center on spine and gait biomechanics. Alderink received his BA in Biology from Hope College in 1976 where he participated in basketball for 2 years and baseball for 4 years. He captained the baseball team as a junior and senior.
Class: Senior
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Gordie Alderink
Dan Ponegalek