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“When Sandra was born, I knew there was just something musical about her. To find out what she has accomplished has been just a miracle.”
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Junior guard Aerial Powers on the verge of becoming one of the best
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Her focus is unbreakable on the court. Her athleticism is unmatched. Her trophy case only gets bigger as time goes on. Redshirt junior guard Aerial Powers is a one-of-a-kind talent for the MSU women’s basketball team and she has nowhere to go but up. Powers is putting together a stellar collegiate career and is on the verge of becoming one of the best shooters in school history. Powers is already one of the premier athletes in the Big Ten, but her and the Spartans are making a stake at national recognition. Powers, a Detroit native, is already a team leader, a school record holder and a Team USA athlete — with many of her accomplishments being met as an underclassman. COMING FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
Aerial Powers is exceptionally talented — there’s no questioning that. But like any other student athlete, Powers comes from humble roots. Powers was born on Jan. 17, 1994 to parents Juan and Cecelia Powers in Detroit. Aerial’s only sibling is her younger brother, Juan Jr., who attends community college. From an early age, her father, an oil-refinery worker for Marathon, encouraged her to go out and be as active as possible. As a young girl Powers would participate in a multitude of sports, including boxing. Powers’ father recalls Aerial was throwing hooks and jabs well before she learned to dribble a ball. “I originally got her into boxing first,” Juan said. “We got her into boxing when she was really young and she loved it.” In fact, Powers’ career in basketball began from a pickup game with her father. “One day I was going to play a pickup game and she wanted to go,” Juan said. “And she wanted to play with me, so I started to let her play with me, but we had to play with the smaller group and it was always with boys. She showed a lot of talent early and she wanted to learn so from then on she just continued to get better.” From there, her basketball potential only grew. Powers and her family decided to enroll her at Detroit Country Day School, a small private school in Metro Detroit. Powers would find herself on the varsity team as a freshman and was taken under the wing of veteran head coach Frank Orlando, currently in his 49th season as a coach and his 36th as head coach at Detroit Country Day. “The thing I noticed when she was a freshman was that she was always concerned about her teammates,” Orlando said. “She loved MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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her teammates and wanted them to be successful, so that was the first impression that I got that she would be a great player.” The four-year letterwinner got a taste of success her freshman year, helping the Yellow Jackets to their 2009 class B state title. Her team would be back in the title game just a year later, but finished as the state runner-up for the 2010 season. The achievements would continue to pile up for Powers, who was named a two-time Associated Press Class B Player of the Year and was given all-state honors three times in high school. By the end of her senior year she was ranked the No. 99 player in the country by ESPN. In high school, Powers averaged 17.1 points a game and 5.7 rebounds. “She came in and was very athletic, she had the ability to rise to the occasion, but she was a player that developed her shooting strength over time — which, when she first came in, was kind of a liability, but she worked on it so hard and you can see now that her shooting skills are among the best,” Orlando said. “Her work ethic was always good and she made herself better a lot in the off-season and even after practice she would work on things that she need-
ed to do to get better.” WHAT SHE’S DOING THIS SEASON
Before the season started, Powers was invited to join Team USA for the World University Games, or WUG. Powers helped lead Team USA to a perfect 6-0 record during the games, which gave the already decorated Spartan a gold medal to add to her trophy case. In the championship game against Canada, Powers scored 27 of the U.S.’s 82 points and nine rebounds. Powers also led the U.S. in scoring during the tournament, averaging 18.0 points per game. MSU women’s basketball coach Suzy Merchant has been enjoying the fruits of Powers’ labor since her freshman season. During her freshman year campaign, Powers started all 33 games for the Green and White. “She’s probably the most dynamic, prolific player that has played here, in terms of her talent level,” Merchant said. “She’s so fun to watch, and I think the best part about her that people should know is not only is she a great player and a great person, but she’s spent a lot of time working on her game and a lot of kids don’t do that anymore.”
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Aerial Powers poses with Team USA head coach Joe McKeown at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea. Team USA won all six of its games in the tournament to win the gold medal. Team USA defeated Canada in the gold medal game, 82-63. Photo courtesy of Dan Yopchick
In 23 games played this season, Powers is leading the 18-7 Spartans with 20.7 points per game. She is also leading her team in rebounds, with 190 overall. The durable Powers is averaging 30.9 minutes per game and has played in every game since she missed the first two games of the season with achilles soreness. Powers has heated up recently too, scoring at least 25 points in five of her last seven games. The sharp-shooting point guard is leading the team in many offensive categories, which ranks her among the best in the Big Ten. As it stands, Powers is ranked fourth in the Big Ten in scoring with her 20.7 points a game, sixth in the conference and she is shooting .845 from the free-throw line, good enough for seventh in the conference. From the floor this season Powers is making .453 percent of her shots, and is shooting .292 from 3-point range. In her short time at MSU, Powers already broke many school records. With 42 career double-doubles, Powers is ranked second all-time in that category, trailing MSU Hall of Famer Mary Kay Itnyre, who has 43 total double-doubles. Powers is also ranked fifth in all-time scoring with 1,595 career points. “When she’s got her swag we’ve all got our swag,” Merchant said. “It’s kind of silly to put it that way but that’s the truth. She plays with a lot of confidence and she brings a lot of emotion and passion to the game and when you play like that it trickles down to other kids and they play a level above of what they usually play.” Powers also has a running list of single-season
records — she is the leading all-time record holder for points with 652 in the 2014-15 season, 365 rebounds in 2014-15, 158 free throws in 2014-15 and 24 double-doubles in 2014-15. WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON FOR NO. 23
Because she’s only a junior, with this season winding down Powers only has one more full season to play basketball before she’s out in the real world. Powers definitely has the convincing resume and the track record to try her hand in the WNBA, and that’s very well where she may be headed. “I want to play in the WNBA and I want to play overseas,” Powers said. “I definitely want to play professionally.” If Powers decides to explore her options after college, her degree in communication mixed with her experience in basketball could make her a qualified commentator or analyst for a television network. “You know... the announcers and halftime shows?” Powers said. “I want to do that. But I really want to stay around basketball. I would love to do stuff like that.” But in the meantime, Powers will enjoy her time at MSU and will continue to grow her legacy. Powers might not be as well-known as Denzel Valentine, but she is just as important to the Spartans’ success. “I want to be looked at as one of the best who ever put on a Michigan State jersey,” Powers said. “I want to be remembered as a hard worker, someone that others that put the jersey on can look up to.”
Junior guard Aerial Powers shoots the ball as she is guarded by U-M guard/forward Jillian Dunston, 11, and U-M guard Danielle Williams on Feb. 3 during the game against U-M at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Wolverines, 85-64. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL
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With Islamophobia and related terrorist attacks occurring across the world, members of the Lansing area clergy have come together to issue a statement of solidarity with the Islamic Center of East Lansing. On Feb. 12, several leaders from different Lansing houses of worship spoke, while many others stood behind them to show support for an event months in the making. “The clergy association met in the fall and asked me how they could help,” the Imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing Sohail Chaudhry said. “We are working at two levels right now, both the short term through these events and the long term, by working to build relationships within the community.” Chaudhry expressed gratitude on behalf of the Islamic Center’s congregants for support they’ve received both on campus and within the Lan-
sing area. “In the last month or so, the Islamic Center has received so many requests from faculty for speakers to come talk with their classes about what is going on with Muslims in America,” Chaudhry said. Despite the support shown, all is not well for Muslims both on campus and in the community. “Islamophobia is not as bad at MSU as it is in other places because it’s a college town with a lot of diversity — that does not mean there is nothing going on,” Chaudhry said. “Sometimes Muslim students are stared at, harassed and denied jobs for reasons like a female is wearing a hijab.” One recent incident caused a student to approach Chaudhry for counsel. The student wore a hijab to class, and in response, she said her professor allegedly asked if she had brought any bombs to class. “She was confused about what to do, should she report it?” Chaudhry said. “She didn’t have any idea why the pro-
fessor said that. She thought he was a genuine guy and had no other problems during the semester.” Some of the faith leaders present could relate to the prejudice Chaudhry recalled, such as spiritual leader of LGBT Christian group Q-Cross, reverend Jenn Tafel. “Understanding what it means to have negativity and hurtful words aimed at us strengthens our resolve to stand with others who may feel oppressed because we know how it feels and the damage it can do,” Tafel said. Q-Cross is holding a panel on Feb. 17 in cooperation with the Islamic Center and other faith groups to discuss interfaith solidarity. For other clergy present, the press conference served as a reminder of what they consider an unfortunate reality of interfaith relations today. Last year, the Christian holy day, Ash Wednesday, coincided with Chinese New Year. The celebratory fireworks lit off
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Members from different denominations around the Lansing community listen while Imam Sohail Chaudhry, center, chants a hymn from the Quran on Feb. 12 at The Islamic Center of East Lansing on 940 S. Harrison Road. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN
near the pastor Sarah Midzalkowski’s One Community Church were mistaken by some congregants as an attack on the neighboring Islamic Center. Fearing the worst, parishioners ran over to assist those at the Islamic Center, Midzalkowski said. “That is not something we would have thought of when the Islamic Center was
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Senior guard Denzel Valentine goes for a shot during the first half of the game against Indiana on Feb. 14 at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Indiana Hoosiers, 88-69. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN BY JOSH THALL JTHALL@STATENEWS.COM
It’s not common around East Lansing for MSU to be all but eliminated from winning the Big Ten regular season title with five games remaining, and even after a 88-69 win Sunday over Indiana, that’s the situation the Spartans (21-5, 8-5 Big Ten) find themselves in. MSU would need five teams to lose one or more games during the final couple weeks of play, and would need first place University of Iowa to lose at least three of its final six games, assuming MSU wins out.
“You want to get a bye because that team that plays all four days is going to be a little more fatigued than the next team. So we want to get that little break and get some rest and come in and play as fresh as we can.”” Eron Harris, MSU men’s basketball junior guard
Senior Denzel Valentine, who had 30 points and 13 assists in MSU’s win over Indiana, said while he is disappointed that MSU’s chances at a regular season Big Ten title are all but gone, he knows his final season is winding down and he wants to step his game up to make a push for a first round bye in the tournament and so much more. “(Getting a first-round bye is) huge,” Valentine said. “We want to get in that top four and control what we can control and that’s what we’re going to do. It’s hard, four days in a row. ... That’s hard.” MSU has not gotten a bye in the first round of the tournament three times since it was created in 1998, having to play on the first day in only 2006, 2007 and 2011. Junior guard Eron Harris said while he has never experienced the tournament, his teammates have stressed to him the importance of avoiding a Thursday game. “From what my teammates and my coaches have been
saying, it makes it so much more difficult when you’re playing on that Thursday,” Harris said. “You want to get a bye because that team that plays all four days is going to be a little more fatigued than the next team. So we want to get that little break and get some rest and come in and play as fresh as we can.” After the win Sunday, MSU currently sits in a tie for sixth place with Purdue University and Ohio State University, just one game behind the University of Michigan for the fourth seed and half a game behind University of Wisconsin, who visits Breslin Center Thursday, for fourth place. “It will be interesting to see what happens with some of these teams, there’s three or four of these teams that are back-end loaded, where they have more games on the road against tougher teams — at least a couple of them.” Izzo said at his press conference on Feb. 9. Wisconsin has a tough slate of games down the stretch, including road games at MSU, Iowa and Purdue to close out the year, and U-M’s schedule isn’t much easier, as three of its final five games are on the road with road games at Ohio State, Maryland and Wisconsin. Senior forward Matt Costello knows the team still has a lot to play for, especially the seniors, who are looking to put their stamp on MSU’s basketball program. “We’ve got a lot of stuff we’re playing for,” Costello said. “We’re playing for the wins record, we’re playing for a good seed in the Big Ten Tournament, missing the first two days and playing for a good seed in the NCAA Tournament.” Izzo said whether or not they have to play on Thursday night does not matter as much to him, but instead said he just wants to see his team get better each and every game as MSU closes out the season. “Get better everyday,” Izzo said after MSU’s win Saturday. “I don’t care where we’re ranked, I don’t care what we got. You wanted certain things because you didn’t want to play in the Thursday night game in the Big Ten Tournament. I don’t know if it matters. You want a higher seed that definitely matters. So we’re playing for those two things now. We’re not sitting here and thinking we can win the Big Ten, unless a bunch of people explode, so, not worried about that, I’m worried about us getting better every day.”
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MSU hockey shows grit against Penn State BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM
Holding tight to a 2-1 lead over Penn State University on Saturday, MSU senior captain and forward Michael Ferrantino made a beautiful play. A Penn State defenseman was about to tee up a one-timer from the point, but a flying Ferrantino dove to the ice, swatted the puck off the defenseman’s stick and slid wrist-and-head-first into the boards. He got up, clutching his wrist, and skated straight to the bench. He sat down in visible pain, wincing and clenching his teeth. Head coach Tom Anastos walked down the bench, put his hands on Ferrantino’s shoulders, and said something to his captain, but it wasn’t audible from the press box. He gave Ferrantino the coaches’ salute for giving up his body for the betterment of the team. Minutes later, Ferrantino was back on the ice, sacrificing his body again to try and preserve a win. Ferrantino wasn’t the only player disregarding bruises and sore limbs. Moments after Ferrantino’s diving effort, junior forward Joe Cox flung his body in the path of an oncoming shot, taking it off the top of his foot. Cox collapsed to the ice, dragged himself up, finished his shift and limped his way to the bench. The two selfless plays, however, weren’t enough to earn MSU the victory. The Spartans would eventually lose their one-goal lead late in the third period — a storyline consistently found throughout the season. Penn State scored on a power play with five minutes left to play in the third period, knotting the game at 2-2. Though the game officially went down as a tie after no goal was scored during the overtime period, Penn State won the shootout, giving them an extra point in the Big Ten standings.
“You see it. We have really close games with a bunch of the teams in the league, it’s just whether or not we bring it with the effort.” Joe Cox, MSU hockey junior forward
MSU displayed grit and tenacity, evident by Cox and Ferrantino’s willingness to give up their bodies. But they weren’t the only ones, as many Spartans blocked shots and fought puck battles in the corners. They took sticks to every limb and gave whacks back, showing they wouldn’t be intimidated by the 6-1 thumping Penn State had given them Friday night. “I think guys came to the rink ready to play and I think there was a lot better effort today,” Cox said. “That’s really what gave us a chance to win. It gave us more scoring chances and kept them to less scoring chances, so I think guys just knew they had to bring it today and I thought they brought a good effort.” It was the same grit and tenacity that propelled them to their win over University of Michigan at Joe Louis Arena. “We have a team that can compete with every other team out there,” Cox said. “You see it. We have really close games with a bunch of the teams in the league, it’s just whether or not we bring it with the effort.” Though MSU has shown it can play with anyone in the nation when they get it together, Anastos questioned why there has been no consistency to the team’s play. “If we play as hard as we did tonight, we give ourselves a chance to win against anybody we
MSU hockey junior forward JT Stenglein keeps control of the puck as he is defended by Penn State forward Eric Scheid on Feb. 13 at Munn Ice Arena. The Spartans were defeated in a shootout by the Nittany Lions, 2-2. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL
play,” Anastos said. “But we have to do that on a consistent basis, and we haven’t found that consistency. You like to see that level of game and yet you’re scratching your head saying, why not more consistency? And that’s what we have to figure out. Not just as a team but individuals as well. “It grinds on me every day and night.” Anastos has looked at it from every angle. Is it how the team prepares? Is it how each individual prepares? Is it their systems? These are questions he has asked himself, his team and his staff, but he’s found no definitive answer.
Women’s tennis looks past robbery in Chicago BY JOHN LAVACCARE JLAVACCARE@STATENEWS.COM
The No. 69 MSU women’s tennis team was defeated by the No. 45 Wake Forest University Demon Deacons Saturday, 5-2, in its first meet since the team’s van was robbed before a scheduled meet at DePaul University in Chicago. The women’s tennis program has recently seen a massive turnaround helmed by head coach Simone Jardim. The Spartans ended a 20-season drought without a winning record in 2014, and are now coming off two straight seasons with winning percentages in the .600s. This season saw MSU women’s tennis continue its success, earning its first preseason ranking since 2009, and setting the team goal of achieving the program’s first ever NCAA DI Women’s College Tennis Championship berth. The Jan. 30 meet against DePaul was supposed to be a litmus test for these aspirations. While the team was out to lunch in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago before the DePaul meet, an unknown suspect or suspects broke into the team van and stole more than $7,000 worth of tennis equipment and personal items. They left only a phone charger and an auxiliary input, or AUX cord, untouched. The meet had to be canceled, as nearly all of the Spartans’ tennis equipment had been stolen. Many players’ personal belongings, including computers, were also taken and needed to be replaced. The expense of paying for the damages did not fall on the student-athletes. Jardim said, as players’ belongings have now mostly been replaced, her team is attempting to move on from the theft. “I feel like we’re still coping with it,” Jardim said. “Because, of course, someone’s just invaded your space and broken into your stuff, and somebody has got your stuff out there. But, other than that, we’re just moving forward and focusing on the season.” Because of the cancellation of the DePaul meet, Saturday’s
meet against No. 45 Wake Forest was the Spartans’ first in about three weeks. For freshman Emily Metcalf, it was the first official meet of her MSU career, as she recently recovered from a partial ACL tear she suffered in the fall. Metcalf was slotted in at the No. 5 singles spot, where she faced Wake Forest’s Samantha Asch, a redshirt senior and former five-star recruit. Though Metcalf lost the first set, she was able to come back for the 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 victory. Visit statenews.com to read the entire story.
“We’re trying different lineups, we’re talking about how guys prepare individually,” Anastos said. “We’re scratching our heads because that is not something — we’ll keep probing, we’ll keeping pushing, we’ll keep examining what we’re doing until we solve it or the season ends.” But maybe it’s not preparation or systems — maybe it’s the want and will to be there. “Effort, I don’t think the guys — it didn’t seem like they wanted to be here,” Cox said of the team’s effort change from Friday to Saturday. Visit statenews.com to read the entire story.
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Military ball draws students, alumni BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM
The ROTC held its annual Military Ball, welcoming present and former students to celebrate military involvement on Saturday. ROTC prepares college students to become officers should they join a branch of the military, and the ball brought together cadets and veterans alike. In at least one case, within the same family. Todd Lincoln, a physics sophomore and ROTC cadet, attended the ball with his parents, Brig. Gen. Pamela Lincoln and Col. Timothy Lincoln, an MSU alumnus. “He has a lot of ambition, but he’s very quiet, very, very humble,” Pamela said. “This might be the first time, tonight, that anybody knows that his parents are in the military.” With both his parents working and having met in the Air Force, Todd often grew up on military bases and moved with his parents. Timothy Lincoln said life is tough for “military brats,” but it teaches them a certain strength of character. “It’s really tough on them, but I think they make friends very easy, they’re very adaptive,” Timothy, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, said. “It also prepares them to be very much adjustable wherever they go.” Todd said growing up in a military family influenced him to get involved with the military at some point and, after following in his father’s footsteps and attending MSU, he decided to join the Army ROTC. “It was a win-win, I get to go where my dad went, on top of the fact that it’s a very good school for what I study,” he said. Todd is currently deciding whether pursue a career in the U.S. Army or in physics. “I’m proud of him,” Timothy said. “I think it’s a selfless sacrifice to serve in the military. It’s not something that everyone chooses to do, and certainly we didn’t push him that way. When he chose to do that, we were very proud of him.” For more go to statenews.com.
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A mother’s wish leads to life full of music for MSU professor Dr. Snow “Maybe I would have made my way towards music, but maybe I wouldn’t have. It was something that stayed with me through my childhood and into adulthood, knowing that was a wish that my birth mother had for me.”
Dr. Sandra Snow a Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education conducts the choir during a women’s choir rehearsal on Feb. 11, at the Music Building. Snow is one of the honorees of the W.J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Awards this year.
Dr. Sandra Snow Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education
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“Please, give this child music lessons.” These instructions were written on a note and given to Sandra Snow’s adoptive parents from her birth mother. Because of the note, Snow’s parents made sure to place her in music and singing lessons growing up. “When Sandra was born, I knew there was just something musical about her,” Sharon Brammer, Snow’s birth mother, said. “To find out what she has accomplished has been just a miracle. Every word I use sounds corny. It
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almost takes my breath away, to know that she has become what she has from such a different beginning.” Fast forward to 2016 and Snow is now Dr. Snow, a distinguished faculty member in MSU’s College of Music. Brammer and Snow have been in contact for about six years now. “To say I am proud of her accomplishments — well, I can’t even begin to explain how proud I am,” Brammer said. Snow works with undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of conducting, choral pedagogy and choral singing at MSU. For more go to statenews.com.
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