Class of 2024
Builder
Calvin University, Men's Division 1, 2 & 3 (1996-2024)
A native of Georgetown, Ontario, Petrusma guided Calvin University for 28 seasons and amassed a won-loss record of 531-211-37. Petrusma guided Calvin University (formerly Calvin College until 2019) hockey teams at the Men’s Division I, II and III levels, winning the 2004 ACHA Men’s Division III National Championship. He led teams at all three levels (Men’s Division I, II, and III) to their respective ACHA national tournaments.
Petrusma played a crucial role in helping Calvin University grow into two hockey programs in 2017, as its Men’s Division III team moved up to the Men’s Division I level and a new Men’s Division III team was started. As Calvin University Director of Hockey Operations, he served as head coach of the Men’s Division I team and oversaw the operations of both the Men’s Division I and III teams. In 2006, Petrusma’s team won the Vezina Cup as playoff champions of the Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference (MCHC). He was named MCHC Coach of the Year in 2006 and Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League Coach of the Year in 2020. Under Petrusma’s leadership, Calvin University was a founding member of the Great Lakes 6 Hockey Conference (GL6), which began play in Men’s Division I in 2024. Petrusma was named GL6 Coach of the Year in 2025 and the GL6 Playoff Championship Trophy was recently renamed the Mike Petrusma Cup in his honor.
As a Calvin University student in the mid-1980s, he was a member of the Calvin University men’s soccer team but remained involved in hockey, a game he played extensively while growing up in Canada. He later guided the Calvin University women’s soccer team as head coach from 1989-to-1994, amassing a won-loss record of 74-28-2 as the program entered the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association in its initial years as a varsity program. His passion for Calvin University stemmed from his own father Jurjen (George) Petrusma, who came to Calvin University as an immigrant student from the Netherlands and gained his education degree to become a long-time teacher in the Ontario Christian School system.
One of his great joys with the Calvin University hockey program was connecting its alumni from all aspects of the globe. In 2022, he spearheaded a 50-year anniversary of Calvin University hockey, bringing alumni back for Calvin University Homecoming Weekend while producing iconic Calvin University 50th anniversary hockey sweaters and logos with his son Josh and Calvin University hockey alum and Howie’s Hockey Tape owner Max Sieplinga.
Another great joy was serving as head coach of ACHA Team Canada at the 2023 World Cup of University Hockey, guiding the team to a silver medal finish. He previously served as head coach of the 2014 ACHA Men’s Division III National Selects Team and an assistant coach on its 2012 team. Petrusma worked with the Grand Rapids Blades for several years at Eagles Ice Center in Grand Rapids. He was a tireless worker inside the facility. Through his work, the Calvin University hockey program was able to build top-shelf locker-room facilities inside Eagles Ice Center with the ACHA Men’s Division I locker rivaling many NCAA Division I or professional hockey facilities. Above all, Petrusma was an enthusiastic supporter of Calvin University and its mission. He was fond of sharing that mission with his players, many of which had no previous connection with Calvin University, its mission, or its history.
