Jerry Bergsma

Biography

Dr. Jerry Bergsma is in his 23rd year as head coach of the women's golf team. Bergsma's women's golf teams have received the MIAA's Team GPA Award 10 times in the last 12 years for maintaining a cumulative team grade point average of 3.30 or above. During the 2023-24 season, he led Calvin to a third place league finish, matching the second-best finish in program history. In the spring of 2021, he helped Calvin finish with third in the final MIAA standings with two of his golfers landing spots on the All-MIAA First Team. At the 2019 MIAA Spring Tournament, he led Calvin to a second place finish. Bergsma has served on the Division III National Women's Golf Committee from 2011-2013 and from 2015 to present. He previously served as a committee chairperson for the LPGA Meijer Classic for Simply Give. In 2016, he was the coach for a group of female college golfers representing USA Athletes International who traveled to St. Andrews, Scotland. A 1990 graduate of Calvin, Bergsma was a member of the Calvin men's volleyball club team and earned All-Midwest Volleyball Association accolades. He coached junior varsity volleyball at Grandville Christian High School and taught at Timothy Christian School in Barrie, Ontario. A native of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Bergsma received his master's degree in physical education from Western Michigan University in 1996 and completed his Doctorate in educational leadership there in 2011. He has served as a faculty member in the Calvin Kinesiology Depa