MHSAA News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Jan. 11, 2006
Contact: John Johnson or Andy Frushour
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com

Fall Sportsmanship Awards Announced:
Recipients To Be Honored By MEEMIC Insurance

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jan. 11 – Over 650 teams representing over 400 schools have been selected to be recognized for displaying outstanding sportsmanship during selected Fall Michigan High School Athletic Association post-season tournament competitions through the Good Sports Are Winners! Program, and all will receive awards ranging from framed certificates to commemorative banners and crystal trophies from MEEMIC Insurance, the Association's corporate partner in sportsmanship efforts.

The program is conducted in team sports, with schools being evaluated by tournament management at District, Regional and Final Round sites. This Fall, a total of 657 teams were selected from 426 schools in tournaments conducted in girls basketball, football and boys soccer. At the District, Regional, Quarterfinal and Semifinals levels of MHSAA tournaments, all schools which meet a set of high sportsmanlike standards are recognized. Those schools will be presented framed certificates from MEEMIC Insurance. Those teams will also 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 1,500 teams will be recognized in 15 activities for their sportsmanship efforts during MHSAA tournaments.

At the Finals in those tournaments, schools judged to have met those standards are presented a crystal trophy and commemorative banner. Cheboygan in girls basketball and Muskegon Oakridge in football were selected by the tournament management at their respective finals for displaying the exemplary sportsmanship by their coaches, student-athletes and spectators. No team was selected from the Finals in boys soccer. Presentation dates at Cheboygan and Oakridge will be announced at a future date.

Cheboygan was a Semifinalist in the Class B girls basketball tournament; while Oakridge was the champion in the Division 5 football playoffs. It is the first time either school has been named a recipient of a Finals award.

Numerous schools will receive more than one award from Fall tournaments, with Muskegon Orchard View and Saginaw Nouvel heading the list with six each. Flint Powers Catholic, Kingsley and Macomb Dakota will each have five teams recognized.

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,500 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, the "MEEMIC Club."

The following is a list of Good Sports Are Winners! Award recipients as submitted by tournament managers through January 3 for the recently-completed Fall sports season ( SPORTS DIRECTORS/ EDITORS -- Please scan this list for recipients from your coverage area):

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GOOD SPORTS ARE WINNERS!
2005 Fall Award Recipients
(Based on reports received at the MHSAA offices as of 1/3/06)

NOTE – Schools are listed in alphabetical order.

KEY
GBB – Girls Basketball; FB – Football; BSO – Boys Soccer
D – District; PD – Pre-District; QF – Quarterfinal; R – Regional; SF – Semifinal.

Addison -- GBB-R; FB-PD
Adrian -- FB-PD
Adrian Lenawee Christian -- BSO-D
Akron-Fairgrove -- GBB-D
Alanson -- GBB-D
Alba -- GBB-D
Albion -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Algonac -- FB-PD
Allegan -- GBB-D
Allegan -- BSO-D
Allen Park Cabrini -- GBB-R; BSO-D
Allen Park Inter-City Baptist -- BSO-D
Allendale -- FB-PD; FB-D
Almont -- GBB-D
Alpena -- GBB-D
Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard -- GBB-D
Ann Arbor Greenhills -- GBB-D
Ann Arbor Huron -- BSO-D
Ann Arbor Pioneer -- FB-PD
Arenac Eastern -- GBB-D
Armada -- GBB-D; BSO-R
Auburn Hills Avondale -- GBB-R
Auburn Hills Oakland Christian -- GBB-QF
AuGres Sims -- GBB-D; FB-PD

Baraga -- FB-D
Bark River Harris -- GBB-D
Battle Creek Calhoun Christian -- BSO-D
Battle Creek Central -- GBB-D; FB-Pre-D; BSO-D
Battle Creek Harper Creek -- FB-D; BSO-D
Battle Creek Lakeview -- GBB-D
Battle Creek Pennfield -- FB-PD; FB-D
Battle Creek St. Phillip -- GBB-D
Bay City All Saints -- GBB-D; FB-D
Bay City Central -- FB-PD
Bay City John Glenn -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Bay City Western -- GBB-D
Bear Lake -- GBB-D; Bear Lake -- FB-R
Beaver Island -- BSO-D
Beaverton -- GBB-D
Belding -- FB-PD
Bellaire -- BSO-D
Bellevue -- GBB-D
Benzie Central -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Berrien Springs -- FB-PD
Big Rapids -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Birch Run -- FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF
Birmingham Brother Rice -- FB-SF
Birmingham Groves -- GBB-D
Birmingham Roeper -- BSO-R
Birmingham Seaholm -- BSO-R
Blissfield -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Bloomfield Hills Academy -- GBB-D
Bloomfield Hills Andover -- GBB-D
Bloomfield Hills Lahser -- FB-D; FB-R
Boyne City -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D
Boyne Falls -- GBB-D
Brighton -- FB-PD; FB-SF; BSO-D
Bronson -- GBB-D
Buckley -- GBB-D
Burton Bendle -- GBB-D; FB-PD
Burton Bentley -- GBB-D
Burton Genesee Christian -- GBB-R
Byron Center Zion Christian -- GBB-D

Cadillac -- GBB-D; FB-D; FB-R
Caledonia -- FB-D; FB-R
Calumet -- GBB-D; FB-PD
Canton -- GBB-D; FB-R
Canton Agape Christian -- GBB-D
Capac -- GBB-D
Carleton Airport -- FB-R
Carney-Nedeau -- GBB-D
Caro -- BSO-D
Carsonville-Port Sanilac -- FB-PD
Caseville -- BSO-D
Cass City -- GBB-D
Cedarville -- FB-D
Central Lake -- FB-PD
Centreville -- GBB-D
Charlevoix -- GBB-R; FB-PD; FB-D
Charlotte -- BSO-D
Chassell -- GBB-D
Cheboygan -- GBB-D
Chelsea -- GBB-D; FB-PD; BSO-R
Chesaning -- BSO-D
Clare -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Clarkston -- GBB-D; GBB-QF; FB-D
Clawson -- GBB-D
Climax-Scotts -- FB-PD
Clinton Township Chippewa Valley -- GBB-D
Coleman -- GBB-D
Colon -- GBB-D
Columbia Central -- BSO-D
Comstock -- GBB-D; FB-D
Comstock Park -- FB-D; BSO-D; BSO-R
Cooks-Big Bay DeNoc -- BSO-D
Coopersville -- FB-PD
Covert -- GBB-D
Croswell Lexington -- BSO-D; FB-D
Crystal Falls Forest Park -- FB-R; FB-SF

Dansville -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Dearborn -- GBB-R
Dearborn -- BSO-D
Dearborn Advanced Tech Academy -- GBB-D
Dearborn Divine Child -- GBB-D; BSO-D; BSO-R
Dearborn Heights Annapolis -- GBB-D
Dearborn Heights Crestwood -- BSO-D
Deckerville -- GBB-D
Detroit Catholic Central -- BSO-D
Detroit Cesar Chavez -- BSO-D
Detroit Chadsey -- GBB-D
Detroit Community -- GBB-D
Detroit Country Day -- BSO-SF
Detroit Finney -- FB-PD
Detroit Martin Luther King -- GBB-QF
Detroit Mumford -- GBB-D
Detroit Redford -- GBB-D
Detroit Southeastern -- FB-PD
Detroit Southwestern -- GBB-D
Detroit Urban -- GBB-D
Detroit Westside Christian Academy -- GBB-D
Dollar Bay -- GBB-D
Dowagiac Union -- FB-PD; BSO-D; BSO-R
Dundee -- GBB-D; GBB-D

East Jackson -- GBB-D
East Kentwood -- GBB-D; BSO-D
East Lansing -- BSO-SF
Eaton Rapids -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Elk Rapids -- BSO-D
Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker -- BSO-R; BSO-SF
Ellsworth -- GBB-D
Engadine -- GBB-R; GBB-QF
Evart -- GBB-D
Ewen Trout Creek -- GBB-R; GBB-QF

Fairview -- GBB-D
Farmington -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Farwell -- GBB-D
Fennville -- FB-PD
Ferndale -- BSO-D
Flint Northern -- GBB-R
Flint Powers Catholic -- GBB-R; FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF; BSO-D
Fowlerville -- FB-PD
Frankfort -- GBB-D; GBB-R; FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R
Fraser -- GBB-D
Freeland -- GBB-D
Freesoil -- GBB-D
Fremont -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D; BSO-D
Fruitport Calvary Christian -- BSO-D
Fulton Middleton -- FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF

Gaylord -- BSO-D
Gaylord St. Mary -- GBB-D; FB-D
Genesee Christian -- BSO-D
Gladwin -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Gobles -- GBB-R; GBB-QF; FB-D; FB-R
Grand Blanc -- GBB-R
Grand Haven -- GBB-D
Grand Ledge -- FB-D
Grand Marais Burt Township -- BSO-D
Grand Rapids Catholic Central -- FB-R; FB-SF
Grand Rapids Central -- BSO-D
Grand Rapids Christian -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Grand Rapids Covenant Christian -- GBB-D
Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central -- GBB-D
G. Rapids Forest Hills Eastern -- FB-D; BSO-SF
Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern -- GBB-D
Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills -- GBB-D
Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian -- BSO-D
Grand Rapids Northview -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Grand Rapids S. Christian -- FB-D; FB-R; GBB-D;
Grand Rapids Union -- GBB-D
Grand Rapids West Catholic -- FB-PD
Grandville -- GBB-D; GBB-R; BSO-D
Grandville Calvin Christian -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Grass Lake -- FB-D
Grayling -- FB-D; FB-R
Greenville -- GBB-D; FB-PD

Hancock -- GBB-D
Harbor Beach -- FB-PD
Harbor Light Christian -- GBB-D
Harbor Springs -- BSO-D
Harbor Springs Harbor Light Christian -- GBB-R
Harper Woods Regina -- GBB-D
Harrison Twp. L'Anse Creuse North -- BSO-D
Hart -- GBB-D
Haslett -- FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R
Hastings -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Hemlock -- FB-PD
Highland Milford -- FB-D
Highland Park -- FB-SF
Hillman -- GBB-D
Hillsdale -- GBB-D; FB-R
Hillsdale Academy -- GBB-R; BSO-D
Holland Calvary -- GBB-D
Holland West Ottawa -- GBB-D
Holly -- GBB-D
Holt -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D; BSO-D
Holton -- BSO-D
Homer -- GBB-D; FB-D
Hopkins -- GBB-D
Houghton -- GBB-D; GBB-R; GBB-QF
Houghton Lake -- GBB-D
Howell -- BSO-D
Hudsonville -- GBB-D
Hudsonville Unity Christian--GBB-D; GBB-R; BSO-R

Ida -- GBB-D
Imlay City -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Inkster -- FB-R
Ionia -- FB-D
Iron Mountain -- GBB-R; FB-D
Iron River West Iron County -- FB-D
Ironwood -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-R
Ishpeming -- FB-R

Jackson Christian -- BSO-D
Jackson Lumen Christi -- FB-R; FB-SF; BSO-D
Jenison -- GBB-D
Johannesburg Lewiston -- FB-PD; FB-D

Kalamazoo Christian -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Kalamazoo Heritage Christian -- BSO-D
Kalamazoo Loy Norrix -- BSO-D
Kalkaska -- FB-R
Kent City -- GBB-R
Kent City Algoma Christian -- BSO-D
Kimball New Life Christian Academy -- GBB-D
Kinde North Huron -- GBB-R
Kingsford -- FB-D; BSO-D
Kingsley -- GBB-QF; FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF
Kingston -- FB-PD

Laingsburg -- BSO-D
Lake Fenton -- GBB-D
Lake Linden-Hubbell -- GBB-D
Lake Orion -- FB-R
Lakeview -- FB-PD
Lansing Catholic -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Lansing Christian -- GBB-D; GBB-QF
Lansing Everett -- BSO-D
Lansing Sexton -- GBB-D
Lapeer West -- FB-PD; FB-D
Lawton -- BSO-D; BSO-R
Leland -- BSO-D
LeRoy Pine River -- FB-PD; FB-R
Leslie -- GBB-D
Lincoln-Alcona -- GBB-D
Litchfield -- GBB-D
Livonia Churchill -- GBB-D
Livonia Ladywood -- GBB-D
Livonia Stevenson -- GBB-D; BSO-D; BSO-SF
Lowell -- GBB-D; GBB-R; FB-PD; BSO-D
Ludington -- GBB-D; GBB-R

Mackinaw -- GBB-D
Mackinaw Island -- BSO-D
Macomb Dakota -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF
Macomb L'Anse Creuse North -- BSO-R
Macomb Lutheran North -- GBB-D Madison Heights Bishop Foley -- GBB-D
Madison Heights Bishop Foley -- GBB-R
Manistee -- GBB-D
Manistee Catholic Central -- GBB-D
Marcellus Howardsville Christian -- BSO-D
Marine City -- FB-PD; FB-D
Marine City Cardinal Mooney -- GBB-R
Marlette -- FB-PD
Marquette -- GBB-D
Martin -- GBB-D; FB-PD;
Mason -- GBB-D
Mason County Eastern -- GBB-D
Mattawan -- BSO-D
McBain -- GBB-D; GBB-R; FB-PD
McBain Northern Michigan Christian -- BSO-D
Melvindale -- GBB-D
Melvindale Academy Business & Tech -- GBB-D
Memphis -- GBB-D
Mendon -- FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R
Menominee -- FB-R
Merrill -- GBB-D
Michigan Center -- GBB-D; GBB-R; GBB-QF
Midland -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Midland Bullock Creek -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D
Midland Dow -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Milan -- GBB-D
Milford -- FB-PD
Monroe -- GBB-D; GBB-QF; FB-PD;
Monroe St Mary's Catholic Central -- GBB-R; FB-PD; FB-R; BSO-D
Montabella -- GBB-D
Montague -- FB-D; FB-SF; BSO-D
Morley Stanwood -- GBB-D; GBB-R; GBB-QF
Mt. Clemens -- GBB-D
Mt. Pleasant -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart -- FB-PD
Muskegon -- GBB-D
Muskegon Catholic Central -- FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF
Muskegon Heights -- FB-PD
Muskegon Mona Shores -- GBB-D; BSO-R
Muskegon Orchard View -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF; BSO-D

Napoleon -- FB-PD
Negaunee -- GBB-R; FB-PD
New Boston Huron -- GBB-D
New Buffalo -- GBB-D
New Covenant -- GBB-D
New Lothrop -- GBB-R; FB-PD; FB-D
Newaygo -- FB-PD
Newport Lutheran South -- BSO-D
North Adams-Jerome -- GBB-D
North Muskegon -- BSO-D
Northville -- GBB-D
Norway -- FB-PD
Novi Franklin Road Christian -- GBB-D

Ogemaw Heights -- GBB-D; FB-D
Olivet -- GBB-D; GBB-QF; FB-D
Onaway -- GBB-D
Onekama -- GBB-D
Onsted -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D; BSO-D
Orchard Lake St Mary's -- FB-R
Otsego -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Ovid-Elsie -- FB-D; FB-R; GBB-D;
Owendale-Gagetown -- GBB-D
Owosso -- GBB-D; BSO-D

Painesdale -- GBB-D
Parchment -- BSO-D
Paw Paw -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D
Pellston -- GBB-D
Pentwater -- BSO-D
Perry -- BSO-D
Petoskey -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Pewamo-Westphalia -- GBB-R
Pinconning -- FB-D
Pittsford -- GBB-D
Plymouth Christian -- GBB-D
Pontiac Northern -- BSO-D
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep -- GBB-D
Port Huron -- GBB-D
Port Huron Northern -- GBB-D
Portage Central -- BSO-D
Portage Northern -- FB-PD; BSO-D
Portland St. Patrick -- GBB-R; GBB-QF
Potterville -- GBB-D
Powers North Central -- GBB-D

Quincy -- FB-PD

Reading -- GBB-D
Redford Convenant -- GBB-D
Redford Thurston -- BSO-D
Reed City -- FB-PD; FB-D
Reese -- FB-D; FB-R; FB-SF
Reford Union -- GBB-D
Richland Gull Lake -- GBB-D
Richmond -- GBB-D
River Rouge -- GBB-D
Rochester -- BSO-D
Rock-Mid Peninsula -- GBB-D; FB-D; FB-R
Rockford -- GBB-D; FB-SF
Rogers City -- GBB-D
Roscommon -- FB-D; BSO-D
Royal Oak Shrine -- FB-PD; BSO-SF
Rudyard -- GBB-R; FB-D

Saginaw Arthur Hill -- GBB-R; GBB-QF
Saginaw Nouvel -- GBB-D; GBB-R; GBB-QF; FB-D; FB-R; BSO-D
Saginaw Swan Valley -- FB-D
Salem -- GBB-D
Saline Washtenaw Christian -- BSO-D
Sand Creek -- GBB-D; FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R
Sandusky -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Sanford Meridian -- FB-D
Sault Ste. Marie -- GBB-R
Schoolcraft -- GBB-D; FB-D
Shepherd -- FB-PD
South Haven -- GBB-D; BSO-R
South Lyon -- GBB-D; FB-PD
Southfield -- GBB-D
Southfield Christian -- GBB-D
Southgate Anderson -- FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R
Sparta -- GBB-D; BSO-D
Spring Lake -- BSO-D
Springport -- GBB-D
St. Joseph -- BSO-D; BSO-R
St. Charles -- FB-D
St. Clair -- GBB-D; GBB-R; FB-D; BSO-D
St. Clair Shores Lakeshore -- GBB-D
St. Clair Shores South Lake -- GBB-D
St. Johns -- GBB-D; GBB-QF; GBB-R
St. Joseph Lake Mich. Catholic -- FB-PD; BSO-D
St. Joseph Michigan Lutheran -- GBB-D; GBB-R
Standish Sterling -- GBB-D; FB-PD;
Sterling Heights -- GBB-D
Sterling Heights Stevenson -- FB-PD; FB-D
Suttons Bay -- FB-R

Taylor Baptist Park -- BSO-D
Tecumseh -- GBB-D
Temperance Bedford – GBB-D; BSO-D
Three Oaks River Valley -- GBB-D
Three Rivers -- GBB-D
Traverse City Central -- GBB-D; FB-PD
Traverse City Christian -- BSO-D
Traverse City St. Francis -- FB-R; FB-SF
Traverse City West -- GBB-D; GBB-R; BSO-D
Trenton -- GBB-D
Troy -- GBB-D

Ubly -- FB-D
Union City -- GBB-D
Unionville-Sebewaing -- GBB-R; FB-PD; BSO-D
Utica -- FB-PD; FB-D; BSO-D

Vermontville Maple Valley -- GBB-D
Vestaburg -- FB-PD; FB-D
Vicksburg -- BSO-D
Waldron -- GBB-D
Walled Lake Central -- FB-PD; FB-D
Walled Lake Western -- FB-D
Warren Cousino -- GBB-D; FB-PD
Warren DeLaSalle -- BSO-D
Warren Mott -- GBB-D
Warren Woods Tower -- GBB-R; FB-PD
Warren Zoe Christian -- GBB-D
Waterford Our Lady -- FB-PD; FB-D; FB-R
Watervliet -- GBB-D
Watervliet Grace Christian--GBB-D; BSO-D; BSO-R
Wayland Union -- GBB-D
Westland Huron Valley Lutheran -- GBB-D
Westland Lutheran -- GBB-D
White Cloud -- GBB-D
Whitehall -- GBB-D
Whitmore Lake -- FB-PD
Whittemore-Prescott -- GBB-D
Williamston -- GBB-R; BSO-D
Wyoming Godwin Heights -- GBB-D
Wyoming Park -- GBB-D; FB-PD
Wyoming Rogers -- GBB-D

Ypsilanti -- BSO-D
Ypsilanti Lincoln -- GBB-D

Zeeland West -- FB-PD; FB-D