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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-July 1, 2004
Contact: John Johnson, Andy Frushour or Randy Allen
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com
2003-04 Parade of Champions
EAST LANSING, Mich. – July 1 – A total of 82 different schools were crowned champions, including five for the first time, in Michigan High School Athletic Association tournaments during the 2003-04 school year.
The past year saw a total of 117 team champions in 116 classes or divisions (there was one tie in boys soccer), in a year where the number of postseason tournaments offered by the Association grew with the addition of bowling for girls and boys. There were five schools winning their first MHSAA titles in any sport: Goodrich in girls cross country (which also won a girls track and field title in the spring), Hudsonville in boys bowling; Lansing Christian in girls basketball, Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest in baseball; and White Pigeon in boys golf. In addition, there were 37 other teams which won tournament titles in a given sport for the first time.
Twenty-one of the 82 schools winning in 2003-04 took more than one crown, with four schools � New Lothrop, Marquette, Jackson Lumen Christi and Detroit Country Day � claiming two championships each in unified tournaments. New Lothrop won in girls volleyball and team dual wrestling; Marquette had titles in ice hockey and girls skiing; Jackson Lumen Christi was a co-champion in boys soccer and football Finals winner; and Detroit Country Day won in girls basketball and girls soccer. Marquette won eight total titles; while Country Day won four championships. Sixteen of the MHSAA's 26 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 10 sports.
Five schools ran their consecutive championship streak to four or more in a given sport including: Marysville in volleyball (8); Iron Mountain in boys tennis (8); and Marquette in girls skiing (6), girls cross country (4), boys cross country (4) and boys tennis (4).
The following is a sport-by-sport listing of MHSAA champions for 2003-04:
| Sport | Class/ Division |
Winning School (Coach) | Titles Won | Consecutive Titles Won |
BASEBALL |
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| 1 | Ann Arbor Pioneer (Jerry Holley) | 1 | -- | |
| 2 | Dearborn Divine Child (Tony DeMare) | 2 | -- | |
| 3 | Homer (Scott Salow) | 1 | -- | |
| 4 | Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest (Jim Lepor)* | 1 | -- | |
| BASKETBALL (Boys) | ||||
| A | Lansing Everett (Johnny Jones) | 2 | -- | |
| B | Detroit Renaissance (Mark White) | 1 | -- | |
| C | Saginaw Buena Vista (Eric Henderson) | 5 | -- | |
| D | Detroit Rogers (Steve Hall)* | 2 | 2 | |
| BASKETBALL (Girls) | ||||
| A | Detroit Martin Luther King (William Winfield) | 4 | -- | |
| B | Detroit Country Day (Frank Orlando) | 7 | 2 | |
| C | Ishpeming Westwood (Tom Hammar) | 1 | -- | |
| D | Lansing Christian (Norm Randall)* | 1 | -- | |
| BOWLING (Boys) | ||||
| A | Hudsonville (Paul Bentley)* | 1 | -- | |
| B | Hudsonville Unity Christian (Scott Wesseldyke) | 1 | -- | |
| C-D | Traverse City St. Francis (Bernard Bossert) | 1 | -- | |
| BOWLING (Girls) | ||||
| A | Port Huron Northern (Christopher Damon) | 1 | -- | |
| B | Bay City John Glenn (Craig Black) | 1 | -- | |
| C-D | Sandusky (Gordie Williams) | 1 | -- | |
| COMPETITIVE CHEER (Girls) | ||||
| A | Grandville (Julie Smith-Boyd) |
3 | -- | |
| B | Ovid-Elsie (Soni Latz) | 1 | -- | |
| C-D | Breckenridge (Deb Gaines) | 4 | -- | |
| CROSS COUNTRY (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 | Highland-Milford (Brian Salyers) | 1 | -- | |
| LP 2 | Dexter (Jamie Dudash) | 2 | 2 | |
| LP 3 | Grand Rapids West Catholic (Dennis Scul) | 2 | -- | |
| LP 4 | Harbor Springs (Mike Kloss) | 2 | 2 | |
| UP 1 | Marquette (Dale Phillips) | 15 | 4 | |
| UP 2 | Stephenson (Peggy Grille) | 6 | -- | |
| UP 3 | Cedarville (Pete Spieles) | 1 | -- | |
| CROSS COUNTRY (Girls) | ||||
| LP 1 | Clarkston (Jamie LaBrosse) | 1 | -- | |
| LP 2 | East Grand Rapids (Nick Hopkins) | 1 | -- | |
| LP 3 | Goodrich (John Shaw)* | 1 | -- | |
| LP 4 | Traverse City St. Francis (Rick Woods) | 1 | -- | |
| UP 1 | Marquette (Dale Phillips) | 21 | 4 | |
| UP 2 | Stephenson (Peggy Grille) | 5 | -- | |
| UP 3 | Rapid River (Gary Brunngraeber) | 1 | -- | |
| FOOTBALL | ||||
| 1 | Detroit Catholic Central (Tom Mach) | 9 | 3 | |
| 2 | Rochester Adams (Tony Patritto) | 1 | -- | |
| 3 | East Grand Rapids (Peter Stuursma) | 6 | 2 | |
| 4 | Three Rivers (Scot Shaw) | 1 | -- | |
| 5 | Jackson Lumen Christi (Herb Brogan) | 6 | -- | |
| 6 | Ravenna (Dusty Fairfield ) | 4 | -- | |
| 7 | Traverse City St. Francis (Josh Sellers) | 3 | -- | |
| 8 | Detroit St. Martin dePorres (Greg Carter) | 12 | -- | |
| GOLF (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 | Detroit Catholic Central (Bill Hayes | 1 | -- | |
| LP 2 | Mt. Pleasant (Frank Ross) | 4 | 2 | |
| LP 3 | Grosse Ile (James Bennett) | 5 | 2 | |
| LP 4 | White Pigeon (Eldon Miller)* | 1 | -- | |
| UP 1 | Escanaba (Marty Oslund) | 20 | -- | |
| UP 2 | Ispheming Westwood (Irvin Dieterle) | 2 | -- | |
| UP 3 | Ontonagon (Jim Bobula) | 16 | 3 | |
| GOLF (Girls) | ||||
| LP 1 | Grand Blanc (Martha Ryan) | 5 | 2 | |
| LP 2 | Dexter (Marc Militello) | 1 | -- | |
| LP 3 | Jackson Lumen Christi (Beth Conway) | 6 | 2 | |
| UP 1 | Menominee (Greg Jeske) | 13 | 2 | |
| UP 2 | Iron Mountain (Don Bianco) | 1 | -- | |
| UP 3 | Cedarville (Rogert Rutledge) | 1 | -- | |
| GYMNASTICS (Girls) | ||||
| Open | Tri-Farmington (Jeff Dwyer) | 1 | -- | |
| ICE HOCKEY | ||||
| 1 | Marquette (Mike L'Huillier) | 4 | -- | |
| 2 | Trenton (Mike Turner) | 10 | 2 | |
| 3 | Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood (Andy Weidenbach) | 10 | -- | |
| SKIING (Boys) | ||||
| A | Petoskey (Brewster McVicker) | 7 | -- | |
| B-C-D | Maple City Glen Lake (Mark Fisher) | 1 | -- | |
| SKIING (Girls) | ||||
| A | Marquette (Derek Anderson) | 6 | 6 | |
| B-C-D | Harbor Springs (Bill Miilu) | 7 | 5 | |
| SOCCER (Boys) | ||||
| 1 | Troy (Carlos Wheatley) | 1 | -- | |
| 2 | Holland Christian (Jack Heyboer) | 2 | -- | |
| 3 | Jackson Lumen Christi (Damon Havlicek) |
1 1 |
-- | |
| 4 | Muskegon Western Michigan Christian (Adam Prince) | 3 | -- | |
| SOCCER (Girls) | ||||
| 1 | Northville (Ron Meteyer) |
2 | -- | |
| 2 | Birmingham Marian (Barry Brodsky) | 1 | -- | |
| 3 | Detroit Country Day (Bob Bukari) | 5 | -- | |
| 4 | Kalamazoo Christian (Ron Smilanich) | 2 | 2 | |
| SOFTBALL (Girls) | ||||
| 1 | Harper Woods Regina (Diane Laffey) |
2 | -- | |
| 2 | Stevensville Lakeshore (Denny Dock) | 4 | -- | |
| 3 | Gladstone (Gerald Smith) | 1 | -- | |
| 4 | Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes (Michael Boyd) | 8 | 2 | |
| SWIMMING (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 | Holland (Jon Shears) |
1 | -- | |
| LP 2 | Birmingham Groves (Chris Tennyson) | 3 | -- | |
| UP | Marquette (Matt Williams) | 17 | -- | |
| SWIMMING (Girls) | ||||
| LP 1 | Ann Arbor Pioneer (Dennis Hill) | 11 | 4 | |
| LP 2 | Birmingham Groves (Chris Tennyson) | 2 | -- | |
| UP | Marquette (Matt Williams) | 13 | 3 | |
| TENNIS (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 | Ann Arbor Pioneer (Tom Pullen) | 7 | 4 | |
| LP 2 | Okemos (Bryan Polston) |
2 | -- | |
| LP 3 | Bloomfield Hills Andover (Steve Herdoiza) | 12 | -- | |
| LP 4 | Ann Arbor Greenhills (Eric Gajar) | 2 | 2 | |
| UP 1 | Marquette (Charlie Drury) | 29 | 4 | |
| UP 2 | Iron Mountain (Rhonda Carey) | 20 | 8 | |
| TENNIS (Girls) | ||||
| LP 1 | Troy (Glenn Corey) |
1 | -- | |
| LP 2 | Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern (Dave Sukup) | 2 | 2 | |
| LP 3 | East Grand Rapids (Anne Dykstra) | 15 | 4 | |
| LP 4 | Detroit Country Day (Tom Ellis) | 5 | -- | |
| UP 1 | Marquette (Dick Balding) | 8 | 2 | |
| UP 2 | Iron River West Iron County (Brook Smith) | 11 | 2 | |
| TRACK (Boys) | ||||
| LP 1 | Detroit Mumford (Robert Lynch) | 4 | 3 | |
| LP 2 | Flint Kearsley (Paul Adas) |
1 | -- | |
| LP 3 | Detroit Country Day (David Wilson) | 2 | -- | |
| LP 4 | Detroit St. Martin dePorres (Tony Taylor) | 15 | -- | |
| UP 1 | Gladstone (Brady Downey ) | 2 | -- | |
| UP 2 | Norway (Bob Madigan) | 2 | -- | |
| UP 3 | Pickford (Sam Lightfoot) | 33 | -- | |
| TRACK (Girls) | ||||
| LP 1 | Detroit Mumford (Marc Parker) |
1 | -- | |
| LP 2 | Ypsilanti (Tom Micallef) | 1 | -- | |
| LP 3 | Goodrich (John Shaw) | 1 | -- | |
| LP 4 | Detroit Benedictine (Furmon Tate) | 2 | 2 | |
| UP 1 | Escanaba (Dan Delong) | 16 | 2 | |
| UP 2 | Iron Mountain (Rex Terwilliger) | 1 | -- | |
| UP 3 | Rapid River (Greg Rubick) | 4 | 2 | |
| VOLLEYBALL (Girls) | ||||
| A | Fraser (Kim Argiri) | 2 | 2 | |
| B | Marysville (John Knuth) | 8 | 8 | |
| C | New Lothrop (Sheri Warner) | 3 | -- | |
| D | Adrian Lenawee Christian (Jeff Champion) | 3 | 2 | |
| WRESTLING | ||||
| 1 | Davison (Roy Hall) | 6 | 3 | |
| 2 | Lowell (Dave Strejc) | 2 | -- | |
| 3 | Montrose (Dave Beazley | 3 | -- | |
| 4 | New Lothrop (Tim Ebenhoeh/Jeff Campbell) | 12 | 2 | |
* Indicates first team title in any sport
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NOTE -- Repeat champions from 2002-03 are in bold face. The overall and consecutive title won figures are taken from the 2002-03 Book of Champions and a database compiled by Bill Khan of The Flint Journal . If you find some of the overall and consecutive titles in error because of consolidations, schools changing names, etc., please contact John Johnson at the MHSAA office.
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