Captain Salata leads Whitmore Lake (AnnArbor.com)

May 22, 2012

Emma Salata twice has been named all-league and her golf team's Most Valuable Player, and holds the school's 9 and 18-hole records. And she's done all of that playing each spring for the boys team at Whitmore Lake, which does not have a girls golf team.

AnnArbor.com's Matt Durr tells how Salata got started playing the game with her grandparents, and then became a star of the spring after playing her first season of high school golf during the fall with the Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard girls. Salata has signed to play next season for the Western Michigan University women's team. 

Whitmore Lake girls golfer earns college scholarship by playing with the boys (AnnArbor.com)

Today in the MHSAA: 8/29/24

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

August 29, 2024

1. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 top-ranked Northville came back to defeat Novi 2-1 – Hometown Life

2. CROSS COUNTRY Johannesburg-Lewiston’s Allie Nowak and Sault Ste. Marie’s Gabe Litzner were the pacesetters at the East Jordan Invitational – Cheboygan Daily Tribune | Athletic.net

3. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Chelsea – No. 8 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – clinched the Waverly Relays championship ahead of co-runners-up East Lansing and Okemos – Lansing State Journal

4. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Bay City Western claimed the Bay County championship – Bay City Times

5. CROSS COUNTRY The Houghton girls and Painesdale Jeffers boys were champs at the Jeffers-Kilpela Farm Invitational – Marquette Mining Gazette | Superior Timing

6. GIRLS GOLF Whitehall and Muskegon Reeths-Puffer both carded 373s to share the Whitehall Invitational championship – Ludington Daily News

7. CROSS COUNTRY The Rockford and Central Montcalm girls and Jenison and Grand Rapids Covenant Christian boys were winners of the Saranac Invitational – Grand Haven Tribune | Athletic.net

8. CROSS COUNTRY The Ubly girls and Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port boys were Cass City Invitational winners – Huron Daily Tribune | Athletic.net

9. BOYS SOCCER Midland Dow opened league play with a 3-1 win over Mount Pleasant – Midland Daily News

10. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 7 Kingsford downed Iron Mountain 7-0 – Iron Mountain Daily News