MSU Club of West Michigan

Welcome to the MSU Club of West Michigan website. Our club represents over 24,000 Michigan State University Alumni in Kent, Ottawa, Barry, and Allegan counties. Click here to find out more about us.

14th Annual Steve Smith Charity Challenge Registration Now Open!

Spartans from across West Michigan will gather at Egypt Valley Country Club on Monday, June 25th for the 14th Annual Steve Smith Charity Challenge.  The golf outing raises funds for a variety of causes including the Student Advancement Foundation, MSU, and the Steve Smith / MSU scholarship.  Reserve your foursome today!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

MSU Means Business

Thanks to all those who came out last night and helped us celebrate Jeff Lambert's naming as the 2012 MSU West Michigan Business Person of the Year.  A special thanks to all of our generous sponsors. 

Donate a Nook, help a Westwood Middle School Student

For those that attended Spartan Winter Tailgate, you probably found a notecard on your table asking for a donation towards the purchase of a new Nook e-reader. Westwood Middle School is looking for new ways to get their kids reading and have found e-readers as a great way to appeal to students from a convenience and technology standpoint. Students are able to check the Nooks out which contain a huge variety of books at various reading levels. As part of our club's ongoing effort to support GRPS and the Student Advancement Foundation, we will match any donations made toward this program up to $5,000 (or 50 Nooks). We had some very generous donations at Spartan Winter Tailgate, but want to open this up to everybody in West Michigan in hopes to meet our goal of 100 total Nooks donated. Just go to www.westmichspartans.org/Nook to make your donation today.

2nd Annual Spartan Winter Tailgate

The 2nd Annual Spartan Winter Tailgate at The JW Marriott on Thursday, February 2 was a roaring success.  Here is an early video recap of the event.  We look forward to #3 next year.

Thanks again to all of our sponsors for making this possible. 

2011 Video Highlights from Michigan State University

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Family Harvest Spectacular Event  -  Oct 9th

Thanks to those who came out for the Family Harvest Spectacular event on October 9th.  A great time was had by all.

Thanks to our Sponsors

2011 GRPS Bus Trip to MSU vs. FAU

On Saturday, September 10, thanks to the proceeds of the MSU Club of West Michigan’s Steve Smith Charity Challenge live auction in June, 200 Grand Rapids Public School students visited Michigan State University to watch the Spartans football team go up against Florida Atlantic.

Students from Sibley Elementary School, Martin Luther King Leadership Academy and Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School traveled on deluxe motor coaches provided by Dean Transportation to attend the "MSU and You: Determined, Active and Engaged Tailgate Event". This was the 3rd time the MSU Club of West Michigan hosted this special tailgate for GRPS Students. “I think this event will help students think about college earlier,” said Tricia Mathes, Principal of Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Academy. “We want them to think about education beyond middle school and beyond high school.”

“The SAF is thrilled students will spend the day on a Big Ten University campus and hopes that the experience will help them imagine themselves as university students one day,” said Susan Heartwell, executive director of the Student Advancement Foundation, which raises money for Grand Rapids Public Schools. “We are deeply grateful to the trip sponsors for providing this amazing opportunity.” During the golf outing's auction, MSU Men’s Basketball Coach Tom Izzo auctioned off a package that would allow one busload of students to get to a game. After the final bid was taken, two more people said they wanted to donate the funds for two more busloads of students.

The three bidders, who generously donated the funds to help make this trip possible, chose which Grand Rapids Public School
they wanted to invite students from.

A special thanks to Peter & Joan Secchia, The Clay Family, Attorney Patrick Miles and Truscott Rossman for making this
trip possible. 

Pictures from the 13th Annual Steve Smith Charity Classic

Thanks to everyone for another great SSCC outing that happened on June 27th.  In case you didn't know, there event is hosted by Steve Smith and again featured Tom Izzo during the live auction. 

You can check out all the pictures and like your favorites by visiting our Facebook page. 

Through our funding commitments, the MSU Alumni Club of West Michigan has proudly given back to the university and the community throughout its history. With this year, the success of the Steve Smith Charity Challenge alone has provided us the opportunity to donate nearly $625,000 to MSU sponsored programs, scholarship and local charities as a result of these events.

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