Head Athletic Trainer Jamie Fetter has announced the addition of two new assistant athletic trainers to the Adrian College Sports Medicine team. Carlee Rievert and Leah Preston will join the staff for the 2025-26 academic year, expanding support for Bulldog athletics.
Carlee Rievert earned her bachelor’s degree in Rehabilitation Medicine from Saginaw Valley State University in 2023 and went on to complete a Master’s in Athletic Training at Indiana State University. During her academic and clinical training, Rievert gained experience at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana State University, and Purdue University. She also served as an Athletic Training Student Intern at Saginaw Valley during the 2022-23 season. Rievert holds certifications in Heartsaver Bloodborne Pathogens, BODPOD body composition analysis, Graston Technique, and Emergency Medical Response with BLS and Emergency Oxygen.
Leah Preston received her bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science from Michigan Technological University in 2022 before pursuing her Master’s in Athletic Training at the University of Northern Colorado. While at Michigan Tech, she spent two seasons as a student intern in the athletic training office. Her graduate clinical rotations included time with the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Colorado Boulder, where she worked with the women’s volleyball team. She also gained experience in the Recreation Injury Care Center. Preston is certified by the American Heart Association in BLS, AED, and CPR.
Rievert will provide coverage for the football, men’s wrestling, club softball, and spring women’s rugby teams. Preston will work with fall women’s rugby, ACHA Men’s Division I hockey, acrobatics and tumbling, and men’s lacrosse.
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Via the Associated Press:
The Detroit Tigers seem to be setting themselves up to potentially go back to what manager A.J. Hinch calls pitching chaos.
Detroit bolstered its bullpen, and options in games without a traditional starting pitcher, with a series of moves to add a trio of right-handers in the hours before the trade deadline on Thursday. Then they added a starting veteran starter, too.
The Tigers acquired Washington’s Kyle Finnegan, Cleveland’s Paul Sewald and Texas minor leaguer Codi Heuer for prospects and cash, and also announced a deal shortly after the deadline for 41-year-old Charlie Morton from Baltimore.
Detroit made the trades — and one earlier this week — hoping to increase its chances of winning a World Series for the first time in more than four decades.
The AL Central-leading Tigers won their fourth straight game with newly acquired starting pitcher Chris Paddack on Wednesday, two days after he was added in a trade with the Minnesota Twins. Later that day, they acquired right-handed reliever Rafael Montero from Atlanta for minor league infielder Jim Jarvis.
Detroit has nearly a double-digit game lead in a division suddenly filled with rebuilding teams, including the defending AL Central-champion Guardians, and is vying with Toronto and Houston for the best record in the league.
The Tigers, trying to take advantage of ace Tarik Skubal and a balanced lineup, are aiming for their first World Series title since 1984.
Morton headlines Thursday’s additions. The two-time World Series winner has won 145 games over 18 big league seasons. He’s 7-8 with a 5.42 ERA this year, although he’s been sharper lately with a 3.98 ERA in 10 starts since June 1.
Detroit earned a spot in the playoffs last year for the first time in the decade after a late-season surge, using Hinch’s unconventional approach to using relievers to start and pitch in games for an inning or two.
The 33-year-old Finnegan was an All-Star in 2024, but his velocity has been down this season. He has 20 saves with a 4.38 ERA in 2025.
In the trade for Finnegan, the Tigers sent minor league pitchers Josh Randall and R.J. Sales, Detroit’s third and 10th round draft picks from 2024, respectively, to Washington.
The 35-year-old Sewald is eligible to return from the injured list on Sunday after being shut down with a strained right shoulder, but he isn’t expected to pitch until September. He is 1-1 with a 4.70 ERA in 18 games this season, averaging more than one strikeout each inning.
The 29-year-old Heuer, who will report to Triple-A Toledo, was 3-2 with a 3.43 ERA and four saves in 35 games at Triple-A Round Rock this year and pitched in one game for the Rangers.
Detroit opens a three-game series Friday night at Philadelphia.
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Via the Associated Press:
Trey Lance threw for 120 yards and two touchdowns, and the Los Angeles Chargers beat the Detroit Lions 34-7 in the Hall of Fame game that kicked off the NFL’s preseason Thursday night.
The game opened with a moment of silence for the four people killed earlier this week by a shooter who was targeting league headquarters in New York.
The gunman also wounded a league employee in the shooting Monday night. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told NBC he visited the employee for an hour on Wednesday and said the man was improving.
There was increased security around Tom Benson Stadium and the Pro Football Hall of Fame village.
Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jahmyr Gibbs, David Montgomery, Penei Sewell and the rest of Detroit’s star-studded offense didn’t see any action against Los Angeles.
Coach Dan Campbell’s Lions, who went one-and-done in the playoffs last season after winning a franchise-record 15 games, also sat their top two draft picks.
“It’s the first one out of the gate,” Campbell said. “We turned it over five times and had zero takeaways. That’s hard. Can’t put the defense in that kind of a position. It’s hard to get a rhythm when you turn the ball over.”
Justin Herbert was among many of the Chargers starters rested by coach Harbaugh, who led the team to a six-win turnaround and a playoff berth in his first season. Rookie running back Omarion Hampton, a first-round pick, carried twice for 9 yards.
The Chargers recovered a fumble on the opening kickoff at the Lions 28 and converted the short field into a 7-0 lead.
Lance made a perfect touch pass on fourth-and-2 to Will Dissly, who caught a 5-yard touchdown over a defender’s outstretched hand.
After undrafted rookie cornerback Nikko Reed stepped in front of Kyle Allen’s sideline pass and returned it 60 yards to the Lions 6, Kimani Vidal ran in from the 2 to make it 14-0.
Allen threw another pick on the next possession to Tony Jefferson after driving the Lions to the Chargers 23.
Craig Reynolds’ 3-yard TD run cut Detroit’s deficit in half.
But Lance fired a 19-yard pass to Tucker Fisk to the Lions 19 and connected with KeAndre Lambert-Smith on a 15-yard TD pass for a 21-7 halftime lead.
Lance has started just five games in four NFL seasons after playing in only 19 games at North Dakota State. He spent just two seasons with the 49ers, who selected Brock Purdy with the last pick the same year they traded three first-round picks and a third-rounder to move up to get Lance.
After two years with Dallas, Lance joined the Chargers to compete with veteran Taylor Heinicke for the backup job. He completed 13 of 20 passes before giving way to rookie DJ Uiagalelei.
Allen and Hendon Hooker are battling for the Lions’ backup job behind Goff. Allen was 9 of 14 with two picks. Hooker, a third-round pick in 2023, has thrown nine passes in his first two seasons. He also tossed an interception against the Chargers.
“You get caught in needing to see some of these guys getting put out there and want them loose and also want to win and play well. We didn’t do it,” Campbell said.
Detroit’s sloppy special teams turned it over again in the third quarter. Jakobie Keeney-James dropped a punt inside the 10 and the Chargers recovered at the 5. But Los Angeles had to settle for Cameron Dicker’s 23-yard field goal.
The Chargers capped the scoring on Vidal’s 2-yard TD run late in the fourth quarter. The Lions’ second preseason game will be in Atlanta on August 8th.