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1975 - 1980
During the second half of the seventies Nijmegen developed a playing style which combined both speed and technique. During that period - due to the efforts of the youth program - some years earlier talents such as Fred Homburg, Harrie van Heumen (at age 15) and Jan Bruijsten made their debut in the Nijmegen line up.
During the second part of the seventies Nijmegen also had some strong Dutch Canadian players 
such as Dick Jellema (coming from RAAK The Hague), Frank van Soldt and Brian de Bruyn. Frank van Soldt and Brian de Bruyn joined Nijmegen in the 1975-1976 season and would also continue to play for the Dutch National team later in their careers.
In 1976 Nijmegen finished 4th of the table after the Feenstra Flyers, Tilburg Trappers and HIJS Intervam (The Hague). Nijmegen remained to keep the services of Dutch Canadian Frank van Soldt and brought another Dutch Canadian player to Nijmegen: Rick Schievink. Valued import players that year were Mike Fryia, Bob Graham and Murray Wilcox.
The year after in 1977 Nationale Nederlanden Nijmegen was not as successful - ending last in the league, winning only four games. Before the start of the season both Dutch Canadians Frank van Soldt and Rick Schievink left Nijmegen in addition to import payers Mike Fryia and Murray Wilcox. Bob Graham stayed in Nijmegen and in addition Nijmegen contracted Kevin Street. Speedy forward Harrie van Heumen - at age 19 - was able to finish second in points after Kevin Street scoring 35 points in 30 games for Nijmegen.
In 1978 Nijmegen signed up a new main sponsor in Roswell. That same year both Mike Fedorko and Ron Kennedy came over from the Kalamazoo Wings (IHL). Both Kennedy and Fedorko played with Tom Ross who would join Nijmegen in the 1980-1981 season.
Clockwise from top left: John Sands, Jim deWeerd, Mike Fedorko, Ron Kennedy, Ed Huizingh
One of the great import players that Nijmegen had in the latter part of the seventies was Ron Kennedy. As indicated earlier Kennedy joined Nijmegen from the Kalamazoo Wings of the IHL and ended up staying three years in Nijmegen. In this period he managed to be the top scorer in all these years notching 284 points in total. After leaving Nijmegen he went on to play in Germany. After he retired as a player Kennedy started coaching in the WHL and joined the New York Islanders as an assistant coach in 1994. In his coaching career Kennedy ended up coaching in the DEL but also coached the Austrian national team from 1996 up to 2002 and the Canadian national team in 2006 during the Deutschland Cup. Sadly he passed away in July 2009 due to cancer at age 56.
In the 1979-80 season Frans Fasen, Eric Mater and Ben Tijnagel (all at age 15) made it to the first team of Roswell Nijmegen. The concept of the Nijmegen program was to have as much Nijmegen born players as possible combined with some strong import players. Joining Nijmegen that year were also Dutch Canadian players like Paul Temmerman and Norman Groen (both from Groningen) and Ted Meijer (Leiden). Import players were Dave Morrison, Mike Fedorko and Ron Kennedy. For Kennedy this was his econd year of his three year tenure. In the 1979-1980 season Nijmegen was able to make it to the play-offs for the first time in its existence. Following Years.