Skip To Main Content
Gillian Van Stratt on Muck Rack

Gillian Van Stratt

  • Senior Director of Content, MLive
Grand Rapids
As seen in: MLive, Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Grand Rapids Press, The Oregonian, Spartan Confidential Podcast
Senior Director of Content @MLive. 4x Michigan EMMY winner. Squirrel activist. Cinema enthusiast. Winter lover.
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Gillian

Contact Gillian, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

After being shot, Jeremy Fears Jr. was ‘hoping and praying’ for moment like this

|
By Gillian Van Stratt
| Spartan Confidential Podcast
ATLANTA — A year ago, in Charlotte, North Carolina during the first weekend of the 2024 NCAA Tournament, it was genuinely a big deal for Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo to see Jeremy Fears Jr. taking jump shots and making layups. It had been a miraculously quick recovery from being shot in the leg over Christmas break in 2023. Now, just one year after starting all over, the freshman point guard is on the verge of a Final Four. “This is special, you know?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Tom Izzo responds to Bruce Pearl saying he won’t let MSU ‘play the underdog card’

|
By Gillian Van Stratt
| Spartan Confidential Podcast
ATLANTA — Bruce Pearl’s Auburn team is the No. 1 overall seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament. Michigan State is the No. 2 seed in the South Region and the majority of discourse around the Spartans this tournament is that they’re connected, but they’re not Tom Izzo’s “most talented team.” Well, do not go telling Pearl that MSU is the underdog in Sunday’s Elite Eight matchup (5:05 p.m., CBS) at State Farm Arena (just 109 miles from his campus).
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Flying cash, Vietnam vets and one mythical marijuana strain: MLive’s new podcast tells the wild story of Pinconning Paralyzer

|
By Gillian Van Stratt
| MLive Verified
MLive's popular podcast, Michigan Crime Stories, is back for Season 3: Pinconning Paralyzer. When you’re a town of just 1,300 people, tucked up against Thumb country on the sunrise side of Michigan, you don’t expect anyone to know where you are. Something really crazy has to happen to put you on the map. And yet here we are and little Pinconning is known for not one, but two things: cheese and the holy grail of marijuana in Michigan. Most people know about the cheese.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 110 articles