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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-January 23, 2004
Contact: John Johnson, Andy Frushour or Randy Allen
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com

Good Sports Are Winners! Recipients Announced For Fall Tournaments;
MEEMIC Insurance To Present Awards To Finals Award Winners

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jan. 23 – The recipients of the top Michigan High School Athletic Association's Good Sports Are Winners! Awards for the recently-completed 2003 fall sports season have been named, with each school to receive commemorative banners and crystal trophies from MEEMIC Insurance, the Association's corporate partner in sportsmanship efforts.

Saline in boys soccer, Beal City and Rochester Adams in football, and Flint Northern in girls basketball, were selected by the tournament management at their respective finals for displaying the most exemplary sportsmanship by their coaches, student-athletes and spectators. Presentation dates at all four schools will be announced at a future date.

Saline was the runner-up in the Division 1 boys soccer tournament; Beal City was the runner-up in the Division 8 football playoffs, while Rochester Adams was the champion in the Division 2 tournament; and Flint Northern was a finalist in the Class A girls basketball tournament.

In addition to receiving the finals award, Beal City and Flint Northern were honored at the District level in their respective tournaments. For Beal City and Rochester Adams, this is the second time each school has received the Good Sports Are Winners! Award at the Finals level of MHSAA tournament play. Beal City was the 1993 recipient in baseball, and Rochester Adams won the award in 1992 in girls soccer.

The Good Sports Are Winners! Award made its return in 2002-03 with the corporate underwriting of MEEMIC Insurance. The program had previously been offered from 1989 to 1996, and again during 2000-01.

At the District and Regional level of MHSAA tournaments, all schools which meet a set of sportsmanlike standards will be recognized. There will continue to be standards in the program which would automatically disqualify a school from consideration from the award. Any team which is disqualified for the Good Sports Are Winners! Award at the District or Regional level of a tournament becomes ineligible for the award at higher levels of that same tournament.

In all, 157 teams in girls basketball, football and boys soccer are being recognized for their outstanding sportsmanship at Fall tournaments. Those teams will be recognized through the publication of their names in the MHSAA Bulletin, the MHSAA Finals program series, and on the MHSAA Web site. During the course of the school year, over 1,000 teams will be recognized in 11 activities for their sportsmanship efforts during MHSAA tournaments.

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,200 public and private senior high schools and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common rules for athletic eligibility and competition. No government funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament entry fees from schools. Member schools which enforce these rules are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments, which attract approximately 1.6 million spectators each year.

MEEMIC Insurance Company, with headquarters in Auburn Hills, writes full coverage private passenger automobile protection and homeowners insurance for educational employees and their immediate families in the state of Michigan . MEEMIC was founded by teachers for teachers in 1950. Most representatives of the company are or were teachers themselves. MEEMIC's history of competitive pricing and a commitment to superior service has cultivated a tradition of teachers serving teachers and their families, our "MEEMIC Club."

The following is a list of Good Sports Are Winners! Award recipients as submitted by tournament managers through January 6 for the recently-completed Fall sports season ( SPORTS DIRECTORS/ EDITORS -- Please scan this list for recipients from your coverage area):

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MEDIA ADVISORY - For additional information about MEEMIC, contact Mike Post, Director of Sales & Marketing, toll free at 888-4MEEMIC (463-3642), Ext. 7544. You can download the MHSAA's sportsmanship logo from the MHSAA Web Site � click on Forms & Graphics off the home page.

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GOOD SPORTS ARE WINNERS!
2003 Fall Award Recipients

(Based on reports received at the MHSAA offices as of 1/6/04. NOTE: There can be more than one winner at each site, and not all site managers responded.)

Boys Soccer

District Awards
Division 1
Sterling Heights
Division 2
No Managers Reports Received
Division 3
Frankenmuth
Goodrich
Lake Fenton
Division 4
Glen Arbor The Leelanau School
Leland
Maple City Glen Lake
Northport
Traverse City Christian

Regional Awards
Division 1
Royal Oak Kimball
Division 2
Fruitport
Grand Rapids Christian
Holland Christian
Petoskey
Division 3
Frankenmuth
Richmond
Saginaw Nouvel
Division 4
Adrian Lenawee Christian
Kalamazoo Heritage Christian
Marcellus
 
Semifinal Awards
Division 1
No Managers Reports Received
Division 2
No Managers Reports Received
Division 3
No Managers Reports Received
Division 4
Lutheran Westland
 
Football

Pre-District Awards
Division 1
Detroit Catholic Central
East Kentwood
Jackson
Division 2
Adrian
Farmington
Muskegon
Taylor Kennedy
Division 3
Chelsea
Division 4
DeWitt
Linden
Paw Paw
Three Rivers
Division 5
Frankenmuth
Saginaw Swan Valley
Division 6
Fennville
Kingsley
Quincy
Schoolcraft
Suttons Bay
Vermontville Maple Valley
Division 7
Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard
Burton Bendle
Manchester
Merrill
Newberry
Reading
Sand Creek
St. Ignace
Union City
Division 8
AuGres Sims
Bay City All Saints
Mendon
Vestaburg
 
District Awards
Division 1
Clinton Township Chippewa Valley
East Kentwood
Holland West Ottawa
Division 2
Adrian
Bay City Western
Hudsonville
Midland
Division 3
Battle Creek Lakeview
Charlotte
Fowlerville
Gaylord
St. Johns
Division 4
Grand Rapids South Christian
Division 5
Benzie Central
Capac
Central Montcalm
Essexville Garber
Frankenmuth
Goodrich
Grayling
Division 6
No Managers Reports Received
Division 7
East Jordan
Manchester
Mio AuSable
Sand Creek
Division 8
Baraga
Beal City
Carsonville Port Sanilac
 
Regional Awards
Division 1
No Managers Reports Received
Division 2
Detroit Mackenzie
Hudsonville
Lowell
Division 3
Charlotte
Farmington Hills Harrison
Stevensville Lakeshore
Division 4
Bay City John Glenn
Mt. Morris
Division 5
No Managers Reports Received
Division 6
No Managers Reports Received
Division 7
No Managers Reports Received
Division 8
Frankfort
 
Semifinal Awards
Division 1
No Managers Reports Received
Division 2
Hudsonville
Division 3
No Managers Reports Received
Division 4
Big Rapids
DeWitt
Richmond
Division 5
No Managers Reports Received
Division 6
No Managers Reports Received
Division 7
No Managers Reports Received
Division 8
No Managers Reports Received

Girls Basketball

District Awards
Class A
Allen Park
Benton Harbor
Clio
Davison
Dearborn Heights Crestwood
East Detroit
Flint Central
Flint Kearsley
Flint Northern
Holland West Ottawa
Hudsonville
Lansing Sexton
Lansing Waverly
Lapeer West
St. Johns
Warren Cousino
Zeeland
Class B
Bay City John Glenn
Beaverton
Cheboygan
Essexville Garber
Farwell
Gladwin
Midland Bullock Creek
Ogemaw Heights
Pinconning
Saginaw Nouvel
Tawas Area
Class C
Brethren
Brown City
Cass City
Deckerville
Ithaca
Kent City
Lake City
Leroy Pine River
Manton
Marlette
Mayville
Montague
Muskegon Catholic Central
Muskegon Western Michigan Christian
Ravenna
Class D
Allen Park Cabrini
Allen Park Inter-City Baptist
Camden Frontier
Freesoil
Hillsdale Academy
Jackson Christian
Kimball New Life Christian Academy
Newport Lutheran South
North Adams Jerome
Taylor Baptist Park
Taylor Light & Life
Wyandotte Mt. Caramel
 
Regional Awards
Class A
No Managers Reports Received
Class B
DeWitt
Hemlock
Saginaw Nouvel
Vassar
Class C
Lincoln-Alcona
Traverse City St. Francis
Class D
No Managers Reports Received
 
Quarterfinal Awards
Class A
No Managers Reports Received
Class B
Flint Beecher
Freeland
Class C
Rapid River
Republic-Michigamme
Class D
No Managers Reports Received