50 Tickets to Brooklyn: Girls #23

THE SUMMER PREVIEW

Accomplishments & Accolades

• 1600m – 5:11
• 3200m – 11:01
• 5k (XC) – 17:56

• 3^rd Place – D4 State
• 3x All-State
• Region 31 Champion
• 2x All-Region
• 2x GMAA Champion
• 6^th Place – D4 State 1600m
• 7x All-State (Track)

Ratings Throughout the Years

Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating	Meet	Date	Year
11	Grace VanderKooi	17:56.6	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	153.1	MITCA	11-Nov	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	18:27.7	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	142.8	Division 4 State	4-Nov	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	18:24.7	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	144.4	Region 31	28-Oct	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	18:43.9	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	141.7	GMAA	14-Oct	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	18:24.7	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	149.8	Portage	7-Oct	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	18:25.4	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	149.9	Allendale Falcon	30-Sep	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	18:28.3	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	146.2	Sparta	16-Sep	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	19:03.7	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	143.4	Under the Lights v2	25-Aug	2023
11	Grace VanderKooi	19:56.0	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	134.0	Fruitport Eagle	22-Aug	2023
Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating	Meet	Date	Year
10	Grace VanderKooi	19:22.8	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	133.4	Division 3 State	5-Nov	2022
10	Grace VanderKooi	18:53.3	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	140.2	Region 21	29-Oct	2022
10	Grace VanderKooi	18:40.0	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	135.0	GMAA	15-Oct	2022
10	Grace VanderKooi	19:25.7	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	127.8	Portage	8-Oct	2022
10	Grace VanderKooi	19:00.5	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	135.5	Bluejay	1-Oct	2022
10	Grace VanderKooi	19:25.1	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	132.6	Sparta	17-Sep	2022
SO	Grace VanderKooi	19:08.2	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	139.3	Under the Lights v2	26-Aug	2022
Grade	Name	Time	Team	Rating	Meet	Date	Year
9	Grace VanderKooi	19:28.3	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	122.2	Division 4 State	6-Nov	2021
9	Grace Vanderkooi	19:04.5	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	142.5	Portage	9-Oct	2021
9	Grace VanderKooi	18:55.6	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	140.5	Bluejay	2-Oct	2021
9	Grace VanderKooi	18:55.6	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	128.8	Lakes 8 1	21-Sep	2021
9	Grace VanderKooi	20:43.0	Muskegon Western Mich. Christian	124.0	Hill and Bale	11-Sep	2021

The Rundown

It’s always a trip counting an athlete’s number of All-States. Then counting again. Perhaps even checking again. I came up with ten, seven on the track, three on the grass. For this here, let’s think of the ones from the 2023-24 season.

• 18:27 from the XC State Finals. Was among her fastest times ever. The two faster ones were both at Allendale, which seemed to run similar to MIS last year. But it was her best time at MIS, and five places higher than what she’d finished in D4 in 2021.
• 5:16 and 6^th place in track’s 1600m, her 2^nd straight podium finish in the event
• Runner-up in the 4×8, their 9:36 being the fastest time the Warriors have run since she arrived on campus (and the fastest in WMC athletic.net history)

Continually achieving and bringing her team along with her, that Grace is really something else.