| Title: | Assistant Sports Information Director |
| Phone: | (269) 337-7392 |
| Email: | mblankes@kzoo.edu |
Mitch Blankespoor begins his first year as the assistant sports information director at Kalamazoo College on Aug. 1, 2013.
A native of Grand Rapids, Blankespoor is a 2013 graduate of Calvin College where he majored in sports management, consisting of kinesiology and business. While a student at Calvin, he was a student assistant in Calvin’s sports information office for four years along with being the sports information intern his senior year.
During his time at Calvin, Blankespoor fulfilled numerous responsibilities including writing game recaps and producing feature stories for the college’s sports website, producing audio broadcasts of Calvin’s athletic teams and overseeing student statistic crews.
Blankespoor served as the lead broadcaster during Calvin’s NCAA Division III volleyball national championship in 2010 and runner-up finish in 2012. In addition, he served as the lead play-by-play broadcaster for Calvin road basketball games on WFUR-FM (102.9) in Grand Rapids.
Blankespoor has a great deal of experience in NCAA III tournament play for various sports. In addition to working in the NCAA III Volleyball Championships while at Calvin highlighted by hosting two NCAA III Volleyball Regionals, he has also volunteered at several national tournaments. Blankespoor assisted the Hope College sports information department at the NCAA III Women’s Basketball Championships in 2012 as well as at the NCAA III Volleyball Championships in 2012. This past May, he aided Kalamazoo College at the NCAA III Men's and Women's Tennis Championships.
At the end of the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years, Blankespoor was honored with the Renner Associate SID Award. This award, named after longtime Hope sports information director Tom Renner, is given to a student who contributes to an MIAA member school’s sports information office. He holds the distinction of being the only two-time winner of the award to date.
In his spare time, Blankespoor enjoys watching athletics, being with friends and family, and bowling.