About Me

Greetings, my name is Ian Hamilton.  I am 24 years young (just turned, woot woot) and how can I say this, but I absolutely love life.  I'm blessed to have had a great family to grow up with.  I have 1 older brother (Sean) who is 4 years older than I am.  He's exactly four years older than me except his birthday is Sept. 5th and mine is Sept. 2nd....Hmmmm that seems odd that he could be exactly 4 years older than me, but the fun fact of it is; we were both born on labor day which changes dates every year because its the first Monday of September.  My parents Melissa and Brad have done an amazing job raising me and allowing me to really explore this world, whether it came to sports, friends, riding bikes to the park, etc.  I also have the most beautiful loving girlfriend a man could ask for.  Her name is Demi (yes like Demi Lovato) and we have been dating for 3 years to come now on the 21st of Sept. and I could on for pages about her, but for the sake of this blog, I'll keep it at that.  If it weren't for all them I wouldn't be the person I am today.  

I played sports all my life and am a DIE HARD REDWINGS FAN.  Ice Hockey was my favorite and the one I seemed to be the best at for myself, in comparison to football and baseball.  Football and baseball died off towards the end of high school but my passion for hockey never died, nor will it.  I played 5 years for GVSU's D2 hockey team and am currently in my first year outside of competitive hockey.  Saddening a bit, but I now get to have the privilege of Coaching Jenison High School's varsity hockey team!  Surprisingly enough, I do have a life outside sports.  I enjoy taking my 2 dogs Pavel (my dog, and yes he is named after Pavel Datsyuk) and Spanky (family dog) on all my adventures.  Our adventures consist of walks in the woods/parks, going to beaches, me long boarding with them along side me, and even most car rides (those are there favorite).  I love to snowboard especially out west whenever I get the chance.  I just love being physically active, outdoors as much as possible to enjoy what this world has to offer.  There are so many beautiful places out there, and I try to see as much of it as I can.  My girlfriend and I have a hidden secret about us, and this is that we love to go to concerts, as well as Music and Art Festivals.

Spanky

Pavel

One could only guess what my planned certification will be...Yes, Physical Education (K-12) with a School Health Education minor.  I absolutely love the field I'm in, not only because I get to enjoy the presence of games, sports, and skill development, but also because I find myself to be good at it as well.  Being in a Physical Education setting seems to come natural to me and I enjoy everyday of it (so far), and believe I will for the rest of my life.  I've recently worked for a summer school program this past summer teaching Kindergarten and found out that I absolutely love being an Elementary Teacher and would love to be able to teach as an elementary teacher rather than being only Phys. Ed certified.  I plan to further my education and get a M.Ed in Instruction and Curriculum with an emphasis in Elementary Ed.

I graduated from Jenison High School (Jenison Public Schools).  In all honesty technology wasn't as popular in our school as it is now a days.  Until high school the use of technology was very broad and brief.  The only time we would use it was to do small homework assignments in the computer lab, varying from research assignments to essays or short stories.  SMARTboard were non-existent in my schools; I didn't even know they were a thing until my freshman year of college.  Despite not having a ton of technology use in my years at Jenison, I was the kind of kid who understood technology very well.  Outside of school I would work on computers and phones and was using them a lot whether it was to do school work, play games, or just explore different programs within a computer.  I actually was very close to becoming a computer science major because I loved the idea and sounds of being a coder.  I always wanted to create my own computer website, program, and app at one point, but I'm extremely happy I didn't go that route.