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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --June 19, 2001
Contact: John Johnson or Andy Frushour-- 517.332.5046
EAST LANSING, Mich. - June 19 - Eighty-eight different schools were crowned champions, including eight for the first time, in Michigan High School Athletic Association tournaments during the 2000-01 school year.
The past year saw a total of 113 team champions in 111 classes or divisions (there were ties in boys tennis and boys golf). Schools which won their first MHSAA title in any sport were: Detroit Crockett in boys basketball, Wyoming Kelloggsville in girls cross country, Clawson in girls soccer, Mason County Eastern in softball, Saginaw Heritage and Lutheran Westland in boys track and field, and Cass City in girls track and field. In addition, there were 34 schools which won tournament titles in a given sport for the first time.
Fifteen of the 88 schools winning in 2000-01
took more than one crown, and Birmingham Brother Rice, Marquette,
Portage Northern and Temperance Bedford all claimed two championships
in unified tournaments. Brother Rice won in football and boys
soccer; Marquette in boys and girls skiing, Portage Northern
in boys soccer and softball and Temperance Bedford in volleyball
and team dual wrestling. Marquette won six total titles, while
East Grand Rapids won four championships. Also winning more than
two titles were Ann Arbor Pioneer, Birmingham Brother Rice, Portage
Northern and Sault Ste. Marie with three apiece. Thirteen 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 eleven sports.
Other notable achievements from 2000-01 included: Marquette claimed
its eleventh consecutive Upper Peninsula boys swimming and diving
title, the longest active streak in any sport; while also winning
its 26th title in boys tennis and 18th in girls cross country.
The following is a sport-by-sport listing of MHSAA champions for 2000-01:
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 |
Grosse Pointe South (Dan Griesbaum) Saginaw Swan Valley (Dennis Zehnder) Flat Rock (Chris Elliott) Harper Woods (Mike Rowinski) |
1 1 1 2 |
-- -- -- -- |
|
| BASKETBALL (Boys) | ||||
|
A B C D |
Pontiac Northern (Robert Rogers) Detroit Crockett (Robert Murphy) Kalamazoo Christian (Jerry Mastenbrook) Covert (Sam Cornett) |
1 1* 3 4 |
-- -- -- -- |
|
| BASKETBALL (Girls) | ||||
|
A B C D |
Lansing Everett (Johnny Jones) Flint Powers Catholic (Kathy McGee) St. Ignace (Doreen Ingalls) Portland St. Patrick (Al Schrauben) |
1 3 2 5 |
-- -- 2 2 |
|
| COMPETITIVE CHEER (Girls) | ||||
|
A B C-D |
Rochester (Susan Wood) Chesaning (Lisa Maike) Breckenridge (Deb Gaines) |
6 3 2 |
3 -- 2 |
|
| CROSS COUNTRY (Boys) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Rockford (Mark Nessner) Big Rapids (Brad Kahrs) Williamston (Paul Nilsson) East Jordan (Dennis Snarey) Sault Ste. Marie (Jim Martin) Munising (Francis DesArmo) Carney-Nadeau (Pauline Poupore) |
1 2 1 2 6 3 4 |
-- -- -- -- 2 -- 4 |
|
| CROSS COUNTRY (Girls) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Rockford (Brad Prins) Middleville Thornapple-Kellogg (Tammy Benjamin) Wyoming Kelloggsville (Ray Antel) Maple City Glen Lake (Bryan Burns) Marquette (Dale Phillips) Stephenson (Greg Dausey) Carney-Nadeau (Pauline Poupore) |
3 2 1* 1 18 4 1 |
3 2 -- -- -- 3 -- |
|
| FOOTBALL | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
Grand Ledge (Pat O'Keefe) Birmingham Brother Rice (Al Fracassa) Farmington Hills Harrison (John Herrington) Orchard Lake St. Mary's (George Porritt) Jackson Lumen Christi (Herb Brogan) Whittemore-Prescott (Kyle Tobin) Iron Mountain (Tom Wender) Muskegon Catholic Central (Mike Holmes) |
1 5 11 4 4 1 2 4 |
-- -- 4 2 -- -- -- -- |
|
| GOLF (Boys) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Muskegon Mona Shores (Tom Wilson) East Lansing (George Jones) Grosse Ile (James Bennett) Suttons Bay (Todd Hursey) Menominee (Pete Mayhew) Hancock (Richard Miller) Ewen-Trout Creek (Brian Perttu) |
3 6 3 1 9 2 3 |
-- -- 3 -- -- -- 2 |
|
| GOLF (Girls) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Farmington Hills Mercy (Vicki Kowalski) Coldwater (Roger Fuller) Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood (Del Walden) Menominee (Greg Jeske) Stambaugh West Iron County (Barb Martini) Crystal Falls Forest Park (Chris Larsen) |
2 3 1 11 1 3 |
-- 2 -- -- -- 3 |
|
| GYMNASTICS (Girls) | ||||
|
LP UP |
Northville/Novi (Lindsay Crews) Marquette (Melinda Andrews) |
2 10 |
-- -- |
|
| ICE HOCKEY | ||||
|
1 2 3 |
Detroit Catholic Central (Gordon St. John) Grosse Pointe North (Scott Lock) Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood (Andy Weidenbach) |
5 1 10 |
3 -- 2 |
|
| SKIING (Boys) | ||||
|
A B-C-D |
Marquette (Derek Anderson) Petoskey (Brewster McVicker) |
3 6 |
2 2 |
|
| SKIING (Girls) | ||||
|
A B-C-D |
Marquette (Derek Anderson) Harbor Springs (Bill Shepler) |
3 4 |
3 2 |
|
| SOCCER (Boys) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Tie: Warren DeLaSalle (Thaier Mukhtar) Tie: Birmingham Brother Rice (Jay Louis-Prescott) Portage Northern (Chris Riker) Plainwell (Gary Snyder) Allen Park Inter-City Baptist (Mark Kraatz) |
3 1 1 1 4 |
-- -- -- -- -- |
|
| SOCCER (Girls) | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Plymouth Canton (Don Smith) Madison Heights Bishop Foley (Rick Larson) East Grand Rapids (Abrahm Shearer) Clawson (Terri Shear) |
2 9 2 1* |
-- -- 2 -- |
|
| SOFTBALL | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Portage Northern (Tom Hamilton) Wyoming Rogers (Tom Hudson) Niles Brandywine (Jim Myers) Mason County Eastern (Bill Cole) |
3 2 1 1* |
2 -- -- -- |
|
| SWIMMING (Boys) | ||||
|
LP A LP B-C-D UP |
Rockford (Don Siefert) Alma (Jeff Huxley) Marquette (Matt Williams) |
1 2 15 |
-- -- 11 |
|
| SWIMMING (Girls) | ||||
|
LP A LP B-C-D UP |
Ann Arbor Pioneer (Dennis Hill) East Grand Rapids (Milton Briggs) Houghton (John Vincent) |
8 14 5 |
-- 3 4 |
|
| TENNIS (Boys) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 |
Tie: Birmingham Brother Rice (Keith Cullen) Tie: Ann Arbor Pioneer (Tom Pullen) Portage Central (Pete Militzer) East Grand Rapids (Dave Wollerman) Whitehall (Dick Morley) Marquette (Charlie Drury) Iron Mountain (Rhonda Carey) |
7 4 1 13 1 26 17 |
4 -- -- -- -- -- 5 |
|
| TENNIS (Girls) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 |
Port Huron Northern (Al Wright) Okemos (Al Inkala) East Grand Rapids (Mia Bertsch) Grosse Pointe Woods U. Liggett (Chuck Wright/Bob Wood) Escanaba (Karin Flynn) Stambaugh West Iron County (Brook Smith) |
4 6 12 18 14 9 |
2 2 -- 7 2 5 |
|
| TRACK & FIELD (Boys) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Saginaw Heritage (Jeff Rastello) Farmington Hills Harrison (John Reed) Williamston (Paul Nilsson) Lutheran Westland (Michael Unger) Sault Ste. Marie (Jim Martin) Newberry (John Carlson) Rapid River (Steve Ostrenga) |
1* 1 1 1* 10 3 4 |
-- -- -- -- -- -- 2 |
|
| TRACK & FIELD (Girls) | ||||
|
LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Ann Arbor Pioneer (Bryan Westfield) Detroit Renaissance (Rick Miotke) Cass City (Scott Cuthrell) Reading (Deb Price) Sault Ste. Marie (Scott Menard) Ironwood (Charles Vitton) Pickford (John Bennin) |
12 5 1* 1 1 7 11 |
-- 5 -- -- -- -- 3 |
|
| VOLLEYBALL (Girls) | ||||
|
A B C D |
Temperance Bedford (Jodi Manore) Marysville (John Knuth) St. Louis (Gary Stanglewicz) Mendon (Lisa Vedore) |
2 5 2 3 |
-- 5 -- -- |
|
| WRESTLING | ||||
|
1 2 3 4 |
Temperance Bedford (Dennis Brighton) Lapeer West (John Virnich) Otsego (Dan Cleypool) Dundee (Tim Roberts) |
11 2 1 5 |
-- 2 -- -- |
|
* indicates first team tile in any sport