Vijay Fitzpatrick is entering his 2nd season coaching Grand Ledge High School Football. Coach Fitzpatrick previously spent time as a Grand Ledge Middle School Head Coach before joining the High School staff.
Coach Fitzpatrick's tenure as Freshman Head Coach at GL:
2025: 8-1 (CAAC Blue Champs).
Mike Van Fossen is entering his 3rd season coaching Grand Ledge High School Football, after 5 years of coaching Grand Ledge Youth and Middle School Football. A 1991 graduate of Holt High School, he earned 7 varsity letters in football, basketball, and tennis. Coach Van Fossen’s high school athletic career culminated with him earning Honorable Mention All-CAC as a tight end, MVP of the varsity basketball team, and being one of the first Holt student athletes to earn both his class’s Most Valuable Athlete and The Walter Pawlowski Award for the class’s Most Valuable Scholar Athlete. Mike went on to play college basketball at Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD, where he was part of the 1991-92 Seagulls team that went 29-2, eventually losing in the NCAA Division III Elite 8. Mike currently works as a Professional Land Surveyor and is a partner at a local surveying and engineering firm.
Logan Costello is entering his 2nd season coaching Grand Ledge High School Football. He is a 2023 graduate from Grand Ledge High School. He holds the rare distinction of being a 4 year varsity starter for the football team during his time at GLHS. He started on the Varsity Offensive Line for Coach Brya's first 4 teams from 2019-2022, primarily at Center. He was a 2x All-CAAC & 2x All-Area selection. He started 38 straight varsity games on the OL and also played sparingly on the DL over his 4 year varsity career. He helped GL to 3 straight playoff appearances, 3 playoff victories, including district & conference titles as a senior in 2022. He also threw shot & discus all 4 years for the track team earning multiple varsity letters, qualifying for states as a senior, and reaching 7th in school history in discus. Logan went on to play a season of college football for Heidelberg University in Ohio during the fall of 2023. As a freshman, he started the last 6 games of the season on the FG/XP unit and played sparingly as a backup OL.