Blaine Hardy of Edmonds married Nicole Haverland, Ph.D, of Perham, Minn. in an outdoor ceremony on November 14, 2015 with close family and friends in Litchfield Park, Ariz. The couple honeymooned in Florida.
The bride’s parents are Sue and Dan Schroeder, and Jeff and Pam Haverland of Perham, Minn. The groom’s parents are Susette Hardy of Edmonds and Dave and Kim Hardy of Goodyear, Ariz.
Haverland is a 2004 Perham High School graduate who receive a bachelor of science in biology and chemistry from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a Ph.D. in pharmacology and experimental neuroscience from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Her research is focused on the molecular classification and stratification of highly similar leukemias in order to improve diagnosis and treatment of these diseases.
Hardy is a 2005 Edmonds-Woodway High School graduate. He attended Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho where he majored in business and helped the Warriors win the 2008 NAIA Baseball National Championships. Drafted in his junior year at Lewis-Clark by the Kansas City Royals in the 2008 Major League Baseball amateur draft, he made his major league debut in 2014 for the Detroit Tigers and is currently a relief pitcher for the Tigers. After baseball, Hardy plans to complete his coursework to earn a bachelor’s degree in business and computer programming.
During the baseball offseason, the couple resides in Evanston.
Me and my wife and friends were at the sox game sitting in the bar bullpen, when this lady sat next to us, and we didn’t have a clue who she was until she mentioned that her husband play for the Detroit Tigers, well she was obviously wearing Detroit Tigers shirt! When I said to to my wife and friends, “hey we have Detroit fan here!!” Then she smiled and told us that her husband play for Detroit , at first I was skeptical! But when she’s started talking about him! Is when we realized, that yea she is his wife, she was very friendly and very nice to us, we enjoyed talking to her and she enjoyed our company. Something you don’t see if you meet or try to talk to a celebrity or ball players wife!. But she was just like one of us! Very friendly and very nice, it was nice to have met her, that’s what I call a very classy lady indeed I wish her and her husband the best. And we’re glad to have met her
Yes it is fun to meet and greet all we’ve known via family, generations, etc. Especially us locals here in Seattle.
I was raised with the Hardy family way back in the day kinda-sorta because I found that the Hardy family welcomed me when I needed to escape my own household. Big Glen Hardy Father sang the songs of Elvis kinda-sorta but that made me happy to be at a safe place. Thank You.
Addendum to the above by Dean Jackson:
When I say I was “raised” by the Hardy family I mean I was simply always at the Hardy family home hanging out, visiting with Vic Hardy and the boys.