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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-July 2, 2002
Contact: John Johnson or Randy Allen
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com
2001-02 Parade of Champions
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- July 2 - Seventy-three
different schools were crowned champions, including four for
the first time, in Michigan High School Athletic Association
tournaments during the 2001-02 school year.
The past year saw a total of 114 team champions in 111 classes
or divisions (there were two ties in boys tennis and one in girls
soccer). Schools which won their first MHSAA title in any sport
were: Detroit U-D Jesuit in boys soccer; Clinton Township Chippewa
Valley in football; and Spring Lake in Lower Peninsula girls
cross country. In addition, there were 23 schools which won tournament
titles in a given sport for the first time.
Eighteen of the 73 schools winning in 2001-02 took more than
one crown, and Detroit Catholic Central and Marquette claimed
two championships in unified tournaments. Catholic Central won
in football and ice hockey and Marquette in boys and girls skiing.
Marquette won nine total titles, while Ann Arbor Pioneer won
five championships. Also winning more than two titles were Detroit
Catholic Central and East Grand Rapids 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 11 sports.
Twelve schools claimed four or more consecutive championships
in a given sport including:
Detroit Renaissance in girls track and field (6), Marysville
in volleyball (6), Iron Mountain in boys tennis (6), Carney-Nadeau
in boys cross country (5), Farmington Hills Harrison in football
(5), Rochester in competitive cheer (4), Rockford in girls cross
country (4), Detroit Catholic Central in ice hockey (4), Marquette
in girls skiing (4), East Grand Rapids in girls swimming and
diving (4), and Pickford in girls track (4).
The following is a sport-by-sport listing of MHSAA champions
for 2001-02:
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 |
Portage Central (Paul
Schneider) Monroe Jefferson (Dave Sontag) Blissfield (Larry Tuttle) Decatur (Ben Botti) |
1 1 6 2 |
-- -- -- -- |
|
| BASKETBALL (Boys) | ||||
| A B C D |
Pontiac Northern
(Robert Rogers) Auburn Hills Avondale (Tim Morton) McBain (Bruce Koopman) Wyoming Tri-unity Christian (Mark Keeler) |
2 1 1 2 |
2 -- -- -- |
|
| BASKETBALL (Girls) | ||||
| A B C D |
Lansing Everett
(Johnny Jones) Flint Powers Catholic (Kathy McGee) Detroit Benedictine (Dennis Rogers) Carney-Nadeau (Paul Polfus) |
2 4 1 3 |
2 2 -- -- |
|
| COMPETITIVE CHEER (Girls) | ||||
| A B C-D |
Rochester (Susan
Wood) Grosse Ile (Liz Kazik) Breckenridge (Deb Gaines) |
7 3 3 |
4 -- 3 |
|
| CROSS COUNTRY (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Detroit Catholic
Central (Anthony Magni) Big Rapids (Brad Kahrs) Hemlock (William Agresta) Lawton (Kris Bullock) Sault Ste. Marie (Jim Martin) Ishpeming (John Olser) Carney-Nadeau (Pauline Poupore) |
4 3 2 3 7 15 5 |
-- 2 -- -- 3 -- 5 |
|
| 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) Spring Lake (Scott Hector)* Ann Arbor Greenhills (Vicki Hames-Frazier) Marquette (Dale Phillips) Stephenson (Dale Fountain) Eben Junction Superior Central (Ann Aho) |
4 3 1 3 19 5 1 |
4 3 -- -- 2 4 -- |
|
| FOOTBALL | ||||
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
Detroit Catholic
Central (Tom Mach) Clinton Township Chippewa Valley (Mike Carr)* Farmington Hills Harrison (John Herrington) Chesaning (Jim Szappan) Jackson Lumen Christi (Herb Brogan) Schoolcraft (Larry Ledlow) Detroit St. Martin dePorres (Gregory Carter) Mendon (John Schwartz) |
7 1 12 2 5 2 11 6 |
-- -- 5 -- 2 -- -- -- |
|
| GOLF (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
East Kentwood (Chet
Murawski) Flint Powers Catholic (Bob Beach) Lansing Catholic Central (Chuck Furney) Suttons Bay (Todd Hursey) Marquette (Mark Carlson) Hancock (Richard Miller) Ontonagon (Jim Bobula) |
1 4 2 2 8 3 14 |
-- -- -- 2 -- 2 -- |
|
| GOLF (Girls) | ||||
| LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Rochester (Hal Commerson) Caledonia (Diane Doot) Grosse Ile (Richard Spratt) Gladstone (Bob Davison) Ishpeming Westwood (Irvin Dieterle) Ontonagon (Jim Bobula) |
1 1 5 1 4 16 |
-- -- -- -- -- -- |
|
| GYMNASTICS (Girls) | ||||
| LP UP |
Rochester Adams (Sue
Mussatt) Marquette (Melinda Andrews) |
1 11 |
-- 2 |
|
| ICE HOCKEY | ||||
| 1 2 3 |
Detroit Catholic
Central (Gordon St. John) Grosse Pointe North (Scott Lock) Dearborn Divine Child (Brian Dallas) |
6 2 1 |
4 2 -- |
|
| SKIING (Boys) | ||||
| A B-C-D |
Marquette (Derek
Anderson) Petoskey (Brewster McVicker) |
4 7 |
3 3 |
|
| SKIING (Girls) | ||||
| A B-C-D |
Marquette (Derek
Anderson) Harbor Springs (Bill Shepler) |
4 5 |
4 3 |
|
| SOCCER (Boys) | ||||
| 1 2 3 4 |
University of Detroit
Jesuit (Kevin Tuite)* Grand Rapids Christian (Larry Klaasen) Ludington (Fred Horstman) Southfield Christian (Scott Berthel) |
1 2 1 1 |
-- -- -- -- |
|
| SOCCER (Girls) | ||||
| 1 2 3 4 |
Saginaw Heritage
(George Carty) East Grand Rapids (Abrahm Shearer) Madison Heights Bishop Foley (John Buchanan) Tie: Kalamazoo Hackett (Tim Holloran) Tie: Ann Arbor Greenhills (Adil Salmoni) |
2 3 10 1 1 |
-- 3 -- -- -- |
|
| SOFTBALL | ||||
| 1 2 3 4 |
Portage Northern
(Tom Hamilton) Chelsea (Kim Reichard) Kalamazoo Christian (Marty DeJong) Bath (Marc Kibby) |
4 3 6 1 |
3 -- -- -- |
|
| SWIMMING (Boys) | ||||
| LP A LP B-C-D UP |
Ann Arbor Pioneer
(Dennis Hill) Alma (Jeff Huxley) Marquette (Kristen Smith) |
14 3 16 |
-- 2 12 |
|
| SWIMMING (Girls) | ||||
| LP A LP B-C-D UP |
Ann Arbor Pioneer
(Dennis Hill) East Grand Rapids (Milton Briggs) Marquette (Kristen Smith) |
9 15 11 |
2 4 -- |
|
| TENNIS (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 |
Ann Arbor Pioneer
(Tom Pullen) Bloomfield Hills Lahser (Jan Esper) Tie: Petoskey (Ralph Tramontini) Tie: Bloomfield Hills Andover (Steve Kirschbaum) Tie: Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett (Bob Wood) Tie: Muskegon Catholic Central (Pete Charron) Marquette (Charlie Drury) Iron Mountain (Rhonda Carey) |
5 2 1 2 24 1 27 18 |
2 -- -- -- -- -- 2 6 |
|
| TENNIS (Girls) | ||||
| LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 |
Ann Arbor Pioneer
(Tom Pullen) Okemos (Al Inkala) East Grand Rapids (Mia Bertsch) Grosse Pointe Woods U. Liggett (Chuck Wright/Bob Wood) Escanaba (Karin Flynn) Iron Mountain (Rhonda Carey) |
3 7 13 19 15 12 |
-- 3 2 8 3 -- |
|
| TRACK & FIELD (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 LP 2 LP 3 LP 4 UP 1 UP 2 UP 3 |
Detroit Mumford (Robert
Lynch) Farmington Hills Harrison (John Reed) Yale (Scott Brown) Detroit Benedicine (Lester Hale) Marquette (Matt Edgell) Norway (Bob Madigan) Rapid River (Steve Ostrenga) |
2 2 2 4 3 1 5 |
-- 2 -- -- -- -- 3 |
|
| 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) Yale (Rich Dams) Maple City Glen Lake (Paul Christiansen) Gladstone (Jim Murtha) Ishpeming Westwood (Jon Beckman) Pickford (John Bennin) |
13 6 2 5 1 6 12 |
2 6 -- -- -- -- 4 |
|
| VOLLEYBALL (Girls) | ||||
| A B C D |
Grand Rapids Forest
Hills (Kelly Delacher) Marysville (John Knuth) New Lothrop (Sherry Warner) Leland (Laurie Glass) |
2 6 2 3 |
-- 6 -- -- |
|
| WRESTLING | ||||
| 1 2 3 4 |
Davison (Roy Hall) Lowell (Dave Strejc) Richmond (George Hamblin) Whittemore-Prescott (Craig Funsch) |
4 1 2 3 |
-- -- -- -- |
|
* indicates first team tile in any sport
NOTE -- Repeat champions from 2000-01 are in bold face. The overall and consecutive title won figures are taken from the 2000-01 Book of Champions.
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