Jill (Gobert) VanDamme - Class of 2014

(Perkins)

After earning 16 varsity letters at Mid Peninsula High School, Jill Gobert was a threeyear basketball starter at Northern Michigan University. She scored a Mid Pen girls record 1,614 points and was Class D all-state in 1996. She was a two-time All-U.P. cross country pick, won seven U.P. track titles and helped win the U.P. Class D track title (1995), and was golf MVP. At NMU she started 87 consecutive basketball games, scored 1,243 points and was a three-time GLIAC all-academic choice and District 4 Kodak All-American. She also coached high school girls basketball and girls and boys track in California, girls basketball and track at Gladstone and at Mid Pen was boys track coach and girls basketball coach. She became the first female to coach a boys U.P. championship team, to the 2007 Division 3 track crown.