Sports stats



Lightning Assigned Vander Laan

June 22, 2006 - arenafootball2 (af2)
Stockton Lightning News Release


STOCKTON, Calif. * OL/DL Nick Vander Laan has been assigned to the Stockton Lightning by the arenafootball2 League Office, Lightning head coach Richard Davis announced today.

Vander Laan, 26, comes to the Lightning following a mini-camp workout with the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, having previously enjoyed a decorated college basketball career at the University of California-Berkeley (NCAA), University of Virginia (NCAA), and Concordia University-Irvine (NAIA).

A 6-foot-9, 295-pound Sacramento native, Vander Laan is slated to make his professional football debut with the Lightning, joins the active roster for Saturday's game against the Bossier-Shreveport BattleWings and will wear jersey number 88.

The Lightning return to play with a week 13 home game against the BattleWings on Saturday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m. PT. The game can be heard live on the internet through www.stocktonlightning.com, courtesy of SportsJuice.com.

Season and individual tickets for the Lightning 2006 home season schedule are on sale now. For more information on season tickets, merchandise, or other information, please call the Lightning at (209) 373-1500 or visit www.stocktonlightning.com. Individual tickets can be purchased by calling the Stockton Arena ticket office at (209) 373-1700.

• Discuss this story on the arenafootball2 message board...

arenafootball2 Stories from June 22, 2006


The opinions expressed in this release are those of the organization issuing it, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of OurSports Central or its staff.

OurSports Central