David Ternes named Pre-Season All-American

After an outstanding sophomore season David Ternes '15 has been named 3rd Team Pre-Season All-American.

After recording 45 tackles as a first-year, Ternes became a leader of the Pioneer Defense as a sophomore, recording 103 tackles, 11.5 for a loss.  Ternes also forced three fumbles and recovered four.  As a result, he was named 2nd Team All-MWC, voted by the coaches, and named 3rd Team All-Region by d3football.com.  To cap off the honors, last week Ternes was named to the Pre-Season All-American team by USA Football Network.

Ternes and the Pioneers will report to campus August 15th and will begin practice the 16th.  The Pioneers will host an intrasquad scrimmage at Rosenbloom Field Saturday, August 16th at 1:00 PM.

 Check out some of David's highlights from 2012.

Fourteen Pioneers Make Academic All-MWC!

A total of 14 Grinnell Football players were named to the Academic All-MWC team this month, which is the third highest total in the entire league and unofficially is the highest percentage of team members of any team in the league!

As an entire athletic department, Grinnell led the MWC with 254 student-athletes named to their respective Academic All-Conference teams.

Congrats to all 14 guys for earning such a high honor!

Jacob Beecher '16
Drew Blumberg '13
Tom Brinkman '13
Andrew Clark '14
Clayton Desjardin '15
Colton Feller '14
Seth Gustafson '14
Seth Howard '14
Kevin Hwang '14
Morgan Kinsinger '14
Quinn Rosenthal '14
TJ Schaid '13
Brian Taylor '13
David Ternes '15

Andrew Clark's Summer Job!

Soon-to-be senior cornerback, Andrew Clark '14, is working for Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas this summer as a intern in the software development department.  This is just one example of some of the unique and life-changing opportunities presented to Grinnell football players every summer.  Stay tuned for more stories like this one!

I have the opportunity to intern with Koch Industries in Wichita, KS this summer.  For those of you wondering, Koch is a privately held business with a focus on energies.  Their big money maker lies in the oil industry, with large refineries in Minnesota and Texas.  My role is to work as a software developer for one of Koch’s subsidiaries, Flint Hills Resources (FHR).

                Throughout the summer, myself and 4 other software developer interns have been and will continue to work on improving existing applications that the customers of FHR use.  Our focus is on making the process of correcting orders much simpler.  As of right now, customers have to go through a lengthy process with multiple screens in an effort to correct an order.  The goal of our project is to condense everything down into one screen, leaving logic and processes to be done by our code.  I’ll spare you the technical details…

                This internship has been a great learning experience so far.  I have been exposed to many programs I did not know existed, and then proceeded to gain extensive skills in those programs in very little amount of time.  Work just seems more interesting when I am doing something that will eventually impact people and make a difference.  My mentors encourage innovation, and challenge us to even “break stuff” to create new solutions.  Let’s just say that we have been great at breaking stuff this summer (but we have also made a lot of progress).

                So far, I am enjoying my time here in Wichita.  I have been making new friends and connecting with old ones (shout out to Brian Taylor).  I have been improving my programming skills and gaining skills in the real world.  I can definitely see myself doing this type of work in the near future, hopefully again for Koch Industries with FHR.