HELP US RECOGNIZE WORTHY ALUMNI!
Do you know any LSSU alumni who deserve recognition? The Alumni Association recognizes alumni each year in our annual Alumni Awards ceremony. Three awards are given annually - one geared towards recent graduates; one focusing on professional achievement; and one honoring alumni who are both professionally successful and also supportive of their alma mater. Help us identify awesome alumni who merit honor and admiration - nominate them for an LSSU Alumni Award.
Athletic Hall of Fame

LSSU's Athletic Hall of Fame recognizes individuals for their athletic accomplishments and contributions to the LSSU athletic program as a student, coach or administrator. Nominate an alumni athlete and see previous inductees here.
UNIVERSITY NEWS

Language monitors across the country and around the world decried the decrepitude and futility of basic methods to impart information in their mock-serious entries for Lake Superior State University’s annual tongue-in-cheek Banished Words List. LSSU announces the results of the yearly compendium on Dec. 31 to start the New Year on the right foot, er, tongue.

The vast majority of the 1,500-plus nominations of words and terms for banishment for misuse, overuse, and uselessness for 2023 reveled and wallowed in the erosion of fundamental expression.

Ranked No. 1 as the best of the worst: GOAT, acronym for Greatest of All Time. The many nominators didn’t have to be physicists or grammarians to determine the literal impossibility and technical vagueness of this wannabe superlative. Yet it’s bestowed on everyone from Olympic gold medalists to Jeopardy! champions, as one muckraker playfully deplored. Meanwhile, other naysayers remarked on social media posts that brandish a photo of, for instance, multiple cricket players or soccer stars with a caption about several GOATs in one frame.

To view the full Banished Word List Click Here.

Watch the opening clip from "The Late Late Show with James Cordon" from January 10 at the 12:50 mark, to see LSSU's Banished Words being featured!

For more about the Banished Words List and to nominate a word or term for banishment for 2024, go online to lssu.edu/banishedwords.
CAMPUS NEWS

LSSU Junior and Coast Guard reservist, Noah Misiak, is the 2023 recipient of the Amy Ignatowski Memorial Award. He is studying criminal justice and is currently a member of the Coast Guard reserves. Misiak, who is seeking a career in conservation law enforcement, was drawn to the Coast Guard due to his desire to help people. As a way to honor the memory of their daughter, Paul and Robin Ignatowski, worked with LSSU to create a memorial fund in her name. Every year since 2010, an LSSU student who works with the United States Coast Guard is awarded the Amy Ignatowski Memorial Award.

Senior engineering design multidisciplinary projects include building the drivetrain for a Baja all-terrain vehicle and building an infinite z-axis 3D printer.

LSSU is offering CPR/AED training at the Superior Simulation Center.. Numerous three-hour sessions to choose from throughout the Spring Semester. Open to all students, alumni, and friends of Lake Superior State State. Click here to request more information!
ALUMNI IN THE NEWS
Chris Gomez '21, was awarded the Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) Core Value award.
LAKER ATHLETICS
Catch Laker Athletics on FloSports including Men and Women's Basketball, Volleyball, and Laker Hockey! FloSports has become the exclusive streaming platform for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (GLIAC) and broadcasts over 900 games annually. Read More.
Seventeen Lake Superior State University student-athletes have been named to the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence Teams for the Fall 2022 semester, as announced by the league office on Tuesday.

Criteria states the student-athlete must be an active member on the roster at the end of the season, not a freshman or a first-year transfer student. GLIAC All-Academic teams are comprised of those student-athletes that meet the criteria as well as maintain a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0-3.49 while GLIAC Academic Excellence teams require a cumulative GPA of 3.5-4.0. Read More.
The Lake Superior State University track and field program competed at the Jack Skoog Classic at Central Michigan University on January 21. The Lakers finished the day with 37 top-eight placements, 11 of which were in the top-three of their events. Read More.
The Lake Superior State University men's basketball team came away with a strong 69-60 victory over the Wayne State Warriors on January 20, after a 27-point performance from Kemon Bassett. Read More.
Lake Superior State senior captain, Louis Boudon, and junior defenseman, Jacob Bengtsson, have been nominated for this year's Hobey Baker Award, marking the second time in their Laker careers that both skaters have been named Hobey Baker Award nominees. Read More.
The Lake Superior State women's basketball team came away with a decisive 78-65 victory over the Purdue Northwest Pride on January 14 and witnessed senior forward, Mattison Rayman, record the 1,000th point of her Laker career. Read More.
The Lake Superior State hockey program picked up a dominant 4-1 victory over the Ferris State Bulldogs on January 14. The Lakers set the tone early as Jared Kucharek slotted home his second goal of the season after being set up by Tyler Williams and Brandon Puricelli who picked up the assists. Read More.
Upcoming Events
Join your fellow Lakers for Lake Superior State University Night at Little Caesars Arena on Saturday, February 11 and secure your co-branded Lakers and Red Wings hat! Each ticket sold through this special package includes a donation to the Lake Superior State University Alumni Association.
Join fellow teammates, coaches and Laker fans back at the Cooper Gym for the annual Laker Basketball Alumni Reunion Weekend! Register by February 3 and you will receive up to two FREE tickets to Saturday’s basketball games, and two FREE tickets to Friday's hockey game. For more information, please contact the Alumni Office at 906-635-2844, or email alumnirelations@lssu.edu.
Join your fellow Lakers for Lake Superior State University Night at Little Caesars Arena on Sunday, March 19. All attendees who purchase their ticket through the LSSU specific link receives a co-branded Lakers and Pistons quarter zip jacket! A portion of the proceeds will support the Lake Superior State University Alumni Association.
Friends of Laker Hockey
Members of the Friends of Laker Hockey program were able to receive a breakdown from Coach Damon Whitten and his coaching staff on the behind the scenes of the Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off. The second annual Holiday Face-Off took place at Fiserv Forum in Wisconsin and included hockey teams from University of Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Clarkson.
Interested in learning more about the program? Reach out to Annual Fund and Athletic Development Director Andrew Rubinstein at arubinstein@lssu.edu or (906) 635-6219.
Photo of the Month
January's Photo of the Month features an Alumni gathering at Beckket's Burger Bar in Downtown Bowling Green, OH before the LSSU vs BGSU hockey game on January 7. John and Krystal Burris '98, Mark and Simone Shetler '01, and Alex and Kathy Bozymowski '75, along with their families, attended the game to cheer the Lakers on!
Visit us online for information about alumni events and programs, to update your information with LSSU, and to become an Annual or Lifetime Member of the Alumni Association.