Brotherly Bond

Chase and Ty Rollin are both members of the Central Michigan baseball team. Both their dad and grandpa played baseball at CMU when they were in college, this played a role in them choosing to go to CMU.

Chase said having his brother on the team and having him already be familiar with CMU helped him feel more comfortable about going to college.

“Yeah you got lucky I had to figure it out on my own,” Ty laughed.

It doesn’t feel weird for them to have each other on the team because in high school they played three sports together.

They are both biomedical majors and Ty will be going to dental school after graduation in May. They spend a lot of the time outside of baseball studying.

Baseball Star to Manny Star

During his last year at Northwood University Connor Foley's baseball coach asked him to nanny his twins for him. Foley played for Coach Bischel at Northwood, but had one more year of college and no more eligibility to play baseball. He worked at daycares during college and enjoys kids. Bischel was recently hired as Central Michigan's new head baseball coach, Foley followed his coach and continues to nanny(manny) for him. He will also travel with the team and watch the twins.

Foley hopes to open his own daycare soon. He currently nannies the twins and other coaches kids. Some days he may have 6 kids. Foley says even when he's not working he still spend most of his time with the twins.

Most people think of women being nannys and not guys. When he is out and about with the twins most people assume they are his, he then corrects them and says he's their nanny and most have a surprised reaction.

'It's who I am, I can't change'

Tony Poljan, a sophomore here at Central Michigan University, started stuttering when he was 4 years old. Poljan is also on the football and team and was the quarterback until the ending of last season.

He says that he trained at practice so that when he was on the field all signs of his stutter disappeared. He goes to speech therapy while at school and he said it has changed his life.

Family and friends are very important to Poljan, he comes from a big family and says his teammates are his brothers.

Going Dancing

Central Michigan women’s basketball lost in the semifinals of the MAC Tournament, which took away their guaranteed spot in the NCAA tournament. The team went to the Sweet Sixteen in the tournament last year. Central Michigan was MAC regular season champs for the 2018-19 season.

On Monday, March 18 they waited for the announcement of the NCAA bracket in hopes of a bid. The announcement was supposed to be made at 7pm, but the bracket got leaked and it was moved to 5pm.

The Chippewas will be playing the Michigan State Spartans at 1pm on Saturday in South Bend Indiana. This will be the first time they made it to the NCAA tournament back to back since the 1983-84 season.