Laker dance club wins national championship

Grand Valley State’s dance club won the National Dance Alliance Division II Hip Hop National Championship on April 8, at the NDA finals in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Championships across all three Divisions were held at the event, and the Lakers were one of the few that came away with first-place laurels.

Additionally, the Lakers finished third in the jazz finals earlier in the day.

Cyburt wins GV team award

The Grand Valley State club shooting team has awarded junior Alex Cyburt the Ryan M. Conn Spirit Award.

The award is given out every year by the team in memory of Ryan Michael Conn, a former club member and team captain from 2009-12.

It didn’t take Cyburt long to separate himself from the pack. Cyburt was an NRA Intercollegiate Rifle Club championship qualifier this season. In 2015, he earned first-team honors after being on the team for just a few weeks.

GV alum Ferguson injured

Grand Valley state alum and current UFC fighter Tony Ferguson (20-3) has withdrawn from his April 16 bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov (22-0) due to injury.

Darrell Horcher (12-1) will replace Ferguson and fight Nurmagomedov at a 160-pound catch weight.

The Ferguson-Nurmagomedov fight was the most highly anticipated of a five-round main event in Tampa, Florida. Ferguson is riding a seven-fight winning streak, and Nurmagomedov is fighting for the first time since 2014, when he defeated current lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos.

Ferguson has stated he would still like the fight to happen, but will take time to recover from his injury (blood in lungs) first. Manager Audie Attar says Ferguson should be back by May.