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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --June 20, 2000
Contact: John Johnson or Andy Frushour-- 517.332.5046
EAST LANSING, Mich. - June 20 - Eighty-five different schools were crowned champions, including five for the first time, in Michigan High School Athletic Association tournaments during the 1999-00 school year.
The past year saw a total of 112 team champions in 111 classes or divisions (Iron Mountain and Negaunee tied for the U.P. Class C-D Boys Tennis title). Schools which won their first MHSAA title in any sport were: Detroit City in boys basketball, Utica in girls basketball, St. Charles in football, and Bay City Western and Traverse City Christian in boys golf. In addition, there were 35 schools which won tournament titles in a given sport for the first time.
Seventeen of the 85 schools winning in 1999-00 took more than one crown. Detroit Country Day claimed four championships in unified tournaments, and Orchard Lake St. Mary's and Marquette each took two unified crowns; Country Day won in girls basketball, football and boys and girls soccer, St. Mary's in boys basketball and football and Marquette in boys and girls skiing. Marquette won six total titles, while Detroit Country Day and Escanaba won five and four championships respectively. Also winning more than two titles were Gross Pointe Woods University Liggett and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood with three apiece. Twelve of the MHSAA's 24 championship tournaments are unified, involving teams from the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, while separate competition to determine titlists in both Peninsulas is conducted in the other twelve sports.
The uniques in 1999-200 included: Marquette won its tenth consecutive Upper Peninsula boys swimming and diving title, the longest active streak in any sport, and Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett won its 33rd MHSAA crown in Lower Peninsula boys tennis, a title total which is a national record in boys tennis.
The following is a sport-by-sport listing of MHSAA champions for 1999-00:
NOTE: Those tournaments in which competition is conducted in separate Peninsulas will have their class/division designated as UP for Upper Peninsula; LP for Lower Peninsula. Unified tournaments, involving schools from both peninsulas, will only list the letter/numeral of the class/division in which the competition was conducted.
| Sport |
Class/ Division |
Winning School (Coach) | Titles Won |
Consecutive Titles Won |
| BASEBALL | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Warren DeLaSalle (Brian Kelly) Battle Creek Lakeview (Ray Perry) Blissfield (Larry Tuttle) Bay City All Saints (Mike Regulski) |
2 5 5 1 |
-- -- -- -- |
|
| BASKETBALL (Boys) | ||||
|
A B C D |
Lansing Waverly (Phil Odlum) Orchard Lake St. Mary's (George Porritt) Negaunee (Tom Russo) Detroit City (Shaheed Saleem) |
1 4 1 1* |
-- -- -- -- |
|
| BASKETBALL (Girls) | ||||
|
A B C D |
Utica (Tom McDonald) Detroit Country Day (Frank Orlando) St. Ignace (Doreen Ingalls) Portland St. Patrick (Al Schrauben) |
1* 5 1 4 |
-- 2 -- -- |
|
| COMPETITIVE CHEER (Girls) | ||||
|
A B C-D |
Rochester (Susan Wood) Plainwell (Stacy Smith) Breckenridge (Deb Gaines) |
5 1 1 |
2 -- -- |
|
| CROSS COUNTRY (Boys) | ||||
|
A B C D UP A-B UP C UP D |
Novi (Robert Smith) Flint Powers Catholic (Mike Gould) Allendale (Dale Buist) New Buffalo (Vance Price) Sault Ste. Marie (Jim Martin) Ishpeming (William Sved) Carney-Nadeau (Pauline Poupore) |
2 1 1 1 5 14 3 |
2 -- -- -- -- -- 3 |
|
| CROSS COUNTRY (Girls) | ||||
|
A B C D UP A-B UP C UP D |
Rockford (Brad Prins) Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg (Tammy Benjamin) Kalamazoo Hackett (Mike Nordhuis) Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart (Mark Zitzelsberger) Menominee (Randy Verkerke) Stephenson (Greg Dausey) Republic-Michigamme (Vicki Holsworth) |
2 1 2 1 3 3 3 |
2 -- -- -- 3 2 3 |
|
| FOOTBALL | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
Walled Lake Western (Mike Zdebski) Saginaw (Donald Durrett) Farmington Hills Harrison (John Herrington) Orchard Lake St. Mary's (George Porritt) Detroit Country Day (Dan MacLean) St. Charles (Robert Welzein) Traverse City St. Francis (Larry Sellers) Mendon (John Schwartz) |
1 1 10 3 3 1* 2 6 |
-- -- 3 -- -- -- -- -- |
|
| GOLF (Boys) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 UP A-B UP C UP D |
Bay City Western (Matt Taylor) Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood (Ed Van Dam) Grosse Ile (James Bennett) Traverse City Christian (George Vozza) Marquette (Mark Carlson) Houghton (Bob Backon) Ewen-Trout Creek (Brian Perttu) |
1* 2 2 1* 7 3 2 |
-- -- 2 -- 3 -- -- |
|
| GOLF (Girls) | ||||
|
1 2 3 UP A-B UP C UP D |
Harper Woods Regina (Bob Artymovich) Coldwater (Roger Fuller) Grosse Ile (Richard Spratt) Marquette (Mark Carlson) Ishpeming Westwood (Irvin Dieterle) Crystal Falls Forest Park (Chris Larsen) |
1 2 4 6 3 2 |
-- -- -- 2 -- 2 |
|
| GYMNASTICS (Girls) | ||||
|
LP UP |
East Kentwood (Sherri Goorhouse) Escanaba (Teresa Pascoe) |
3 5 |
-- -- |
|
| ICE HOCKEY | ||||
|
1 2 3 |
Detroit Catholic Central (Gordon St. John) Muskegon Mona Shores (Shawn Zimmerman) Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood (Andy Weidenbach) |
4 1 9 |
2 -- -- |
|
| SKIING (Boys) | ||||
|
A B-C-D |
Marquette (Derek Anderson) Petoskey (Brewster McVicker) |
2 5 |
-- -- |
|
| SKIING (Girls) | ||||
|
A B-C-D |
Marquette (Derek Anderson) Harbor Springs (Bill Shepler) |
2 3 |
2 -- |
|
| SOCCER (Boys) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Rochester Adams (Juan Delgado) Bloomfield Hills Lahser (Andy Wagstaff) Detroit Country Day (Paul Bartoshuk) Grosse Pointe Woods U. Liggett (David Backhurst) |
1 1 9 4 |
-- -- -- -- |
|
| SOCCER (Girls) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Troy Athens (Tim Storch) Portage Central (Pat Norman) East Grand Rapids (Abraham Shearer) Detroit Country Day (Bob Bukari) |
4 1 1 4 |
-- -- -- 2 |
|
| SOFTBALL | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Portage Northern (Tom Hamilton) Pinconning (Dale Billingsley) Kalamazoo Christian (Marty DeJong) Waterford Our Lady (Michael Boyd) |
2 3 5 6 |
-- -- 5 -- |
|
| SWIMMING (Boys) | ||||
|
A B-C-D UP |
Birmingham Brother Rice (Ron Richards) Milan (Kyle Lott) Marquette (Matt Williams) |
6 5 14 |
-- -- 10 |
|
| SWIMMING (Girls) | ||||
|
A B-C-D UP |
Grosse Pointe North (Mike O'Connor) East Grand Rapids (Milton Briggs) Houghton (John Vincent) |
1 13 4 |
-- 2 3 |
|
| TENNIS (Boys) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 UP A-B UP C-D |
Birmingham Brother Rice (Keith Cullen) Okemos (Jim Powers) Detroit Country Day (Bill Ennis) Grosse Pointe Woods U. Liggett (Bob Wood/Chuck Wright) Escanaba (Scott Hansen) Tie: Iron Mountain/Negaunee (Phyllis Laurila/Bruce Farrell) |
6 8 9 34 7 16/3 |
3 2 3 2 2 4/-- |
|
| TENNIS (Girls) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 UP A-B UP C-D |
Port Huron Northern (Al Wright) Okemos (Al Inkala) Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood (Keith Cullen) Grosse Pointe Woods U. Liggett (Chuck Wright/Bob Wood) Escanaba (Karin Flynn) Stambaugh West Iron County (Brook Smith) |
3 6 9 17 13 8 |
-- 2 -- 6 -- 4 |
|
| TRACK & FIELD (Boys) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 UP A-B UP C UP D |
Portage Northern (Bill Fries) Romulus (Nobert Glover) Clare (Rob Johnson) Maple City Glen Lake (Tom Christiansen) Escanaba (Dan Flynn) Iron Mountian (Tom Wender) Rapid River (Steve Ostrenga) |
1 2 1 1 15 5 3 |
-- -- -- -- 2 3 -- |
|
| TRACK & FIELD (Girls) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 UP A-B UP C UP D |
Rockford (Randy VanderVeen) Detroit Renaissance (Rick Miotke) Yale (Rich Dams) Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary (Daryl Weber) Marquette (Dale Phillips) Ishpeming Westwood (Scott Jette) Pickford (John Bennin) |
1 4 1 1 13 5 10 |
-- 4 -- -- 8 -- 2 |
|
| VOLLEYBALL (Girls) | ||||
|
A B C D |
East Kentwood (Roxane Steenhuysen) Marysville (John Knuth) Parchment (Arnis Kengis) New Lothrop (Sheri Warner) |
2 4 1 1 |
-- 4 -- -- |
|
| WRESTLING | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Davison (Roy Hall) Lapeer West (John Virnich) Richmond (George Hamblin) Whittemore-Prescott (Craig Funsch) |
3 1 1 2 |
-- -- -- 2 |
|
* indicates first team tile in any sport