[Vikesrock]

Team 3036 from Deer River appears to be about 20 minutes from Grand Rapids (city to city).

I would recommend that you look into mentoring them for at least a year before you consider starting a team unless you have a group of adult (non-college) mentors involved and support from a high school in the area lined up already. Starting a team is a lot of hard work and doing it during your freshman year of college makes it much harder.