2001 Ludington Boys Soccer Team

2018

Ludington High School - Inductee

Soccer

The 2001 Ludington boys soccer squad won the 2001 MHSAA Division three soccer state championship with a 24-i-2 record. The Orioles won commune and regional titles as well as its conference. The team had two first-team All-Country players. The Orioles were coached by Fred Horstman and assisted by Chad Horstman, Tim Bryant and Brad Reed. Members of the team were Joel Budreau, Landon McIntosh, Steve Massie ...Read More...

2001 Mason County Eastern Softball Team

2018

Stonemason County Eastern - Inductee

Fast-Pitch Softball

The 2001 Mason Canton Eastern softball team won the 2001 MHSAA Division 4 state title with a 38-two tape. The team won commune and regional championships in the playoffs and the Western Michigan D League. The squad had two commencement-team All-Land players. Members of the Cardinals were Laura Herrera, Denise (Imperial) Cory, Sara (Marek) Hilton, Emily (Heath) Rogers, Bernadette Battre, Jeanne (Col ...Read More...

Duane Ingraham Sr.

2018

Mason County Fundamental - Inductee

Bus

Duane Ingraham Sr. coached Stonemason Canton Central'southward boys basketball squad to the Class C land tournament in 1966. Ingraham had two coaching stints with the Spartans, in the 1960s and in the 1980s, and he guided the teams to 4 district championships, a regional title and iv West Michigan Conference titles. He was 143-81 in ten seasons coaching the Spartans, and he was named the Muskegon Chronicle ...Read More...

Gale Tyndall

2018

Custer High School - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Track & Field

Gale Tyndall is a 1955 graduate of Custer High Schoolhouse where he excelled in track, basketball and baseball game. He was an honorable mention All-Land selection in basketball in 1955. In baseball, Tyndall could pitch with both hands, and he just lost 2 games in his high school career. The Detroit Tigers took find, and the Major League franchise signed him. He played in the club's minor leagues for t ...Read More than...

Wally Schafer

2018

Ludington High School - Inductee

Cross State, Track & Field

Wally Schafer is a 1957 graduate of Ludington High School where he set up the land record in the mile run in 1956 with a time of 4:37.04. He was the country runner-up the following spring despite losing a shoe on the get-go lap. He earned four varsity messages and was the Orioles' track captain his senior twelvemonth while also being named the All-around Senior. He went to the Academy of Michigan on a runway ...Read More than...

Amanda Stowe

2017

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball, Rails & Field, Volleyball

Amanda Stowe had one of the greatest basketball careers for anyone from Mason Canton. The 1997 Ludington High Schoolhouse graduate was the runner upward for Miss Basketball game her senior year and chosen for All Land three times by the Associated Press. She was also chosen for All State her junior and senior years from the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News. She finished her career with 2,160 points and ...Read More than...

Dick Daron

2017

Ludington High School - Inductee

Football, Track & Field

Dick Daron used a standout track and field career at Ludington Loftier School to earn a scholarship at Central Michigan University before long before Globe War 2. His high school career included earning the 1939 state championship during his inferior year of high school in the 440-k run with a time of 53.0 seconds. His quarter-mile record for the school stood for 20 years. He captained the Orioles f ...Read More than...

Jacob Shoop

2017

Mason Canton Central - HS Honoree

Cross Country, Track & Field, Wrestling

Qualified all four years at the state meet in cross land. All briefing champ Jr and Sr twelvemonth in wrestling. Won 3rd place at state Jr year and state champ Sr year in wrestling. 3.57 gpa, National Honor Society, Gold recipient H.G. Bacon laurels, MHSAA Scholar athlete award recipient. Active in 4-H and St. Mary's church. Jacob volition exist attending Thousand View University, Des Moines, Iowa to continue w ...Read More...

Jerry McCormick

2017

Mason County Eastern - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Drag Racing, Fast-Pitch Softball, Runway & Field

Jerry McCormick'southward athletic career zoomed to life following his graduation from Bricklayer County Eastern in 1964. McCormick was a three-sport athlete for the Cardinals in runway, baseball and basketball. He lettered in each of the sports, and at 1 point, McCormick owned the 100-meter dash tape. He too was named honorable mention all-state in boys basketball game twice. His exploits earned him the Mas ...Read More than...

Jordan Goodman

2017

Bricklayer Canton Eastern - HS Honoree

Basketball, Cantankerous Country, Track & Field

Two time land champ in 100 meter dash. Country tape holder in 100 meter dash. County record in 400 meter dash. Qualified in four events at state track come across 2017. 3x class D all state in cantankerous country. Participates in educatee council, SADD, Homecoming queen. Jordan will be attention Aquinas College to go along running. ...Read More...

Lauren Biggs

2017

Ludington Loftier School - HS Honoree

Cross Country, Track & Field

Land runner up in 800 Jr twelvemonth, land champ in 800 Sr year. Conference champ in track six times and briefing gnaw cross country iii times. 4.213 gpa Alpha grad,National Accolade Order, student council, and plays in the band. Lauren volition be attention U.S. Military Academy at Westward Point to go on running. ...Read More...

Leanna (Wolf) Geers

2017

Mason County Central - Inductee

Cross Country, Track & Field

Leanna (Wolf) Geers shined brightly on the rail and the cross country courses for Mason County Cardinal and Ferris State University. Geers graduated from MCC in 2002 and owned four school records (400-meter, 800, 3,200 relay and i,600 relay) with multiple W Michigan Briefing championships in the 400 and 800 runs with the 1,600 and three,200 relays. She was awarded the female Senior Sportsmansh ...Read More than...

Lee Schoenherr

2017

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Basketball, Contributor, Football, Softball

Lee Schoenherr went from having an impact on various athletic fields to helping to provide so many opportunities for those in and around Mason Canton. Schoenherr, a 1953 graduate of Ludington, was a member of the Orioles' 1953 state runner-up team. In 1959, he was still listed as the fifth-highest scoring player in schoolhouse history. He earned all-North Primal Conference honors for his play He ...Read More than...

Bud Dodson

2016

Other - Inductee

Bus, Diverseness of Sports

Xxx years agone, Bud Dodson became involved in Special Olympics. In the bridge of 10 years, he became the Area 24 Special Olympics Manager. In that bridge, and beyond, he guided the group from a $vi,000 a year budget to ane that has $34,000 for more than 115 athletes. Dodson'due south teams played in iii seasons in a multifariousness of sports: cycling, poly hockey, cantankerous country skiing, basketball, aquatics, rails ...Read More...

George Cartier

2016

Other - Inductee

Baseball, Football

One game. The first for the Academy of Notre Matriarch. Ludington native George Cartier was the quarterback for the Fighting Irish on Nov. 23, 1887 in the school'due south very kickoff football game and information technology happened to be against Michigan. The Fighting Irish lost the game, 8-0, merely Cartier went on to be involved in sports in i fashion or some other later on in his life.His brother, Warren Cartier, was a Notre D ...Read More...

Jenny (Irwin) Every

2016

Bricklayer County Cardinal - Inductee

Track & Field

Jenny (Irwin) Every set several Ferris Country University track records afterward an outstanding loftier schoolhouse career at Mason County Central. At MCC, she qualified for the state see 4 times running in the 800-meter and 1,600 also as the i,600 and iii,200 relays. Irwin set six Ferris State records and made appearances iii sequent years at the NCAA Partitioning II meet, was named the 2006 GLIAC Most ...Read More...

Mason County Central 1986 Boys Runway Team

2016

Bricklayer County Central - Inductee

Rails & Field

The 1986 Mason Canton Central Boys Track and Field Squad won the MHSAA Form C land championship, defeating Detroit St. Martin dePorres by two points in the state run across. The Spartans started the season after finishing as the state runner-up in 1985. MCC went on to win the 17-squad Fremont Invitational, the East Grand Rapids Invitational, the Traverse Urban center Relays and the W Michigan Briefing titl ...Read More than...

Mike Benedict

2016

Ludington High School - Inductee

Bowling, Cross Land, Fast-Pitch Softball, Track & Field

Mike Bridegroom ran to the 1981 Class B country cross country championship in his senior year at Ludington High Schoolhouse. Information technology was ready upwards past a 19th place terminate the yr before. In both seasons, Benedict was all-region and all-Seaway Conference. In track, Benedict was a three-time all-Seaway Conference athlete and was the conference champion in the two-mile his senior twelvemonth. Benedict eventually ran for Sag ...Read More...

Ross Donley

2016

Ludington High School - Inductee

Coach, Cantankerous Country, Rails & Field

Ross Donley coached the Ludington Loftier Schoolhouse rail teams for 37 years and cantankerous country for 26 years. His track teams won xvi league titles, iv regional titles and iii times were in the top 10 at the state meet. Donley'due south cross country teams won six league titles and four regional titles. He is a four-time regional cross country coach of the year and the 1983 rails bus of the twelvemonth. Donley is ...Read More...

Kylie Mountain

2016

Mason County Central - HS Honoree

Basketball, Track & Field, Volleyball

The 2015-16 Mason County Sports Hall of Fame Female Student-Athlete of the Yr is Mason County Primal's Kylie Mount. She earned four letters each in basketball and track and field while also earning three letters in volleyball. She set the Stonemason County Central school record in the high leap while being all-state twice in the 100-meter hurdles and one time in the long jump. In 2016 alone, she was ...Read More...

Spencer Knizacky

2016

Bricklayer Canton Central - HS Honoree

Baseball game, Football game, Wrestling

The 2015-16 Bricklayer County Sports Hall of Fame Male Student-Athlete of the Yr is Mason County Central'due south Spencer Knizacky. He competed all 4 of his high school years on the wrestling and baseball teams and for three seasons on the varsity football team. He is a 2-time West Michigan Conference, district and regional champion in wrestling and he placed three years at the state run into, including ...Read More...

Carl Mayhand

2015

Bricklayer Canton Eastern - Inductee

Cross Country, Runway & Field

Carl Mayhand was a record-setting runner at Stonemason County Eastern, leaving the school with 7 records in tow. He went on to be an All-American during his junior college days and had to plough down a full scholarship to Auburn University because of family commitments. Only in high school, he was tough to vanquish in cross country and rail. He owned state titles in the 1980 state cross state run into and ...Read More...

Greg Melchert

2015

Stonemason County Central - Inductee

Baseball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Football, Wrestling

Greg Melchert was an outstanding baseball and football player as well as wrestler at Mason Canton Central, and he found his greatest success in baseball. He played at Western Michigan and went on to pitch in the Detroit Tigers subcontract system for Lakeland and Utica. He was an All-State special mention in baseball. He was a three-fourth dimension state qualifier in wrestling, finishing fourth as an private and ...Read More than...

Lee T. Snyder

2015

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball game, Football, Track & Field

Lee T. Snyder was a i-man wrecking coiffure one fine spring day at the 1954 Class B state track encounter. The Ludington Oriole single handedly gave his schoolhouse the state runner-up trophy equally he won state titles in the pole vault and high bound while taking second in the low hurdles and third in the long spring. Snyder's prowess wasn't express to the track equally he was a member of the boys basketball teams and f ...Read More...

Matt Urka

2015

Scottville Loftier School - Inductee

Contributor, Fast-Pitch Softball

Although Matt Urka saw his playing days with baseball game cut curt past an accident, his dear for the stick-and-ball game never subsided. He helped to sponsor fastpitch softball teams and he organized what was ane of the premier fastpitch softball tournaments in the country over the Memorial Day weekend, turning MacPhail's field in Scottville into a fastpitch paradise with a who's who of players and te ...Read More...

Rae (Debbie Hineline) "Rookie" Jean

2015

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Gymnastics

The Ludington gymnastics programme in the late 1970s was dominant, and that was partly thanks to the piece of work of Rae Jean, and then known every bit Debbie Hineline. She was a three-time All-State option in 1976, 1977 and 1978. She was the get-go Ludington gymnast to win an accommodating country title, doing so in 1978, as she won state titles in 3 individual events: vault, uneven bars and floor exercise. I ...Read More...

Rod Beckman

2015

Shelby High School - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Football game, Media

Perhaps no person is as synonymous as the vocalism of Ludington football and basketball as Rod Beckman. For 40 years, Beckman was the play-past-play vox of both programs on the airwaves of WKLA and for a year of basketball at WMOM. And when he wasn't delivering sports on the air, he connected to play in a sport where he excelled — baseball game and softball. He was a member of the Custer VFW teams long ...Read More...

Brandy Thomas

2015

Ludington High School - HS Honoree

Basketball, Track & Field, Volleyball

Brandy Thomas left her mark on the walls of Ludington's Hawley Gymnasium and all anyone had to practice was look at the track record volume. Thomas set new school records in the discus and shot put numerous times throughout her loftier school career while also participating in volleyball and basketball game. She is a iv-time Lakes viii Activities Conference champion in the shot put and a four-time state qual ...Read More...

Noah Dobrzelewski

2015

Ludington High School - HS Honoree

Diving, Football, Swimming, Track & Field

Noah Dobrzelewski brought leadership to the field and the pool in his years at Ludington Loftier Schoolhouse as he competed in football game, pond and diving and track and field. Dobrzelewski swam for four seasons for Ludington, earning the Coaches' Laurels in his 9th grade year and following that with Almost Valuable Swimmer honors his sophomore through senior years. Dobrzelewski likewise earned honorable me ...Read More...

Don Stokely

2014

Ludington Loftier School - Inductee

Baseball, Charabanc, Football game

Don Stokely keeps a watchful eye of the baseball game diamond at the corner of Gaylord and Lowell streets. That diamond bears his name after he oversaw the Ludington baseball programme for 33 years. Stokely compiled a tape of 452 wins and 288 losses and saw his teams win 11 league titles, six district titles and one regional crown. He was a regional double-decker of the year in 2001 and was the Class A & B Mus ...Read More...

Dr. Howard Hoffman

2014

Ludington High School - Inductee

Football game, Track & Field

Long before Dr. Howard Hoffman became a prominent physician in Ludington, Hoffman was a standout athlete at Ludington so at the University of Michigan. He played three seasons for Ludington High School'southward football team and was the captain for two of those. He also ran rail for Ludington. At Michigan, though, is where Hoffman had an incredible run. He was on the university'southward rails team with h ...Read More...

Fabian Knizacky

2014

Free Soil High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Race Walking

Fabian Knizacky was a great race-walker, finishing ninth in the 1984 Olympic trials for the 50-kilometer race walk. The four-year varsity letterwinner from Free Soil in cross country went on to Aquinas College where he really excelled. At Aquinas, he was the outset three-time all-American for the schoolhouse and was the showtime person to win All-American honors in indoor track. In all, he is a five-fourth dimension a ...Read More...

Melissa (Thompson) Gross

2014

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball, Track & Field

Melissa (Thompson) Gross ran her style into what's seemingly a permanent place in the Ludington Loftier record books. While an oriole, she set up a schoolhouse record in the 1,600-meter run and was a member of the school-tape setting i,600-meter relay team. She was also a state champion miler in 1982 while running to third in 1983 in the 800-meter run and tertiary in 1981 in the 1,600-meter run. She also was a ...Read More...

Patricia M. Jensen

2014

Ludington High School - Inductee

Coach, Gymnastics

The Orioles' gymnastics program was built by Patricia M. Jensen and under her guidance, Ludington went 143-three in duals and won state championships in five consecutive seasons, from 1975 to 1979. That record included 111 consecutive victories, a national record. Sixteeen of her gymnasts were named all-state and fourteen earned full college scholarships. She was named the Detroit News Michigan High School ...Read More...

Todd Patulski

2014

Stonemason County Primal - Inductee

Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Rails & Field

Todd Patulski has lived a life of athletics and it all began at Mason County Fundamental. Patulski was the 1985 Mason Canton Central Athlete of the Year as he was a guard on the Spartans' 19-one boys basketball team and was a state qualifier in the high jump, 300-meter hurdles and 400-meter relay team in runway and field. He likewise played fastpitch softball, including beingness the starting pitcher on the Clas ...Read More...

Chase Barnett

2014

Mason Canton Central - HS Honoree

Basketball, Cross Country, Runway & Field

Chase Barnett leaves Mason County Central with many school records and state titles in tow after a standout 4-year career. He was a four-year star in cross country and track and field while playing 2 years of boys basketball at Central, ane year on the varsity. He was a four-time All-State honoree in cross country, finishing equally the state runner-up twice and placing 3rd once. He ready the ...Read More...

Madison Geers

2014

Stonemason County Central - HS Honoree

Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Volleyball

Madison Geers' athleticism couldn't be missed on the flooring or in the field during her high school career at Stonemason Canton Central. Geers was a four-yr varisty letter winner in both basketball and softball while earning three messages in volleyball. She made her biggest mark in basketball game, earning Associated Press All-Land honors her senior yr after setting the all-fourth dimension scoring mark for Maso ...Read More...

1947 Softball Squad Abrahamson-Bannon

2013

Other - Inductee

Fast-Pitch Softball

The 1947 edition of the Abrahamson-Bannon softball team helped to set up decades to come up of softball greatness from Mason County every bit it won the MASA Class B state championship. The team compiled a 35-four record that season and went 17-2 in its league. At the state tournament, the team allowed just one run and viii hits while scoring eight runs on xx hits. Bob VanDyke tossed the showtime two games, incl ...Read More...

Bob Wolff

2013

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Archery

Bob Wolff is a two-time globe record holder in archery. Wolff, known as the "The Bow Bender" or the "Bull of the Woods", had one of the greatest years in 1969 in archery, scoring a state title with a record for the highest score and highest margin of victory. He set his two world records at Cobo Hall in Detroit, competing in the sport before the advent of the compound bow. And in that twelvemonth, throug ...Read More...

Bonita "Bonnie" Vasicek

2013

Custer High School - Inductee

Fast-Pitch Softball

Bonita "Bonnie" Vasicek put the footprints downwards for girls and women's softball in Stonemason Canton starting at the age of nine. Vasicek's forty-year career included playing for Custer High School and attempting to get a contract at 15 with the Grand Rapids Chicks, a semipro team. She won a state title with the 1959 Carr's Rockets, the 1969 Baldwin Merchant Team and the 1971 Baldwin Girls' Squad. She too ...Read More...

Dick Dennis

2013

Ludington Loftier Schoolhouse - Inductee

Fast-Pitch Softball

Dick Dennis is one of the pioneers of softball in Mason Canton equally he and proficient friend Ralph Wienert brought the windmill pitch to fast pitch softball hither and perfected information technology for the ages. Dennis began to play softball at age eight, and he was on his first men's squad at age xi in 1935. He went on play on various teams during his service with the U.S. Army Air Corps and one time he came dorsum abode, he joine ...Read More than...

Fred Horstman

2013

Ludington High School - Inductee

Autobus, Soccer

Fred Horstman began the Ludington High School soccer programme from scratch and built it into a state powerhouse, including guiding the Orioles to the 2001 Division iii state championship. In xv years, Horstman had a record of 258-54-22 as Ludington won eleven conference, 10 commune and six regional championships. Before the country title, Ludington was the 1994 and 1997 land runners-up. The 2001 Division ...Read More than...

Jay Hansen

2013

Ludington High School - Inductee

Swimming

Jay Hansen was one of the most prolific swimmers to come through Ludington High Schoolhouse. Hansen, a 1988 graduate, won 11 private Coastal Conference titles and set up five league records while an Oriole. He set five school records and still owns 4 of them and he won iii individual state championships and set 1 state record. He was at his best in the 100-yard butterfly, even recording the 34th ...Read More than...

Paul Spencer Peterson

2013

Ludington High School - Inductee

Cantankerous Country, Track & Field

Paul Spencer Peterson used a nifty distance-running career at Ludington and propelled himself into a wonderful runner for Saginaw Valley Land University. Peterson was the runner-up at the 1978 Class B country see. Only once he became a Cardinal, he earned NAIA All-American honors in several events. He is 3-time All-American in the ten,000-meter run and a two-time All-American in the v,000-meter ...Read More than...

D'Erika Varenhorst

2013

Ludington High School - HS Honoree

Basketball, Runway & Field, Volleyball

D'Erika Varenhorst of Ludington competed in basketball, volleyball and track in her high schoolhouse career with the Orioles and basketball proved to exist her height game. In all, she earned eight varsity messages while an Oriole. Varenhorst was one of just a few Ludington girls basketball game players to be named to the Associated Press, BCAM and Detroit Free Press Class B All-Country teams in school history. Vare ...Read More than...

Elena Luce

2013

Bricklayer Canton Eastern - HS Honoree

Basketball, Cross Country, Fast-Pitch Softball, Soccer, Volleyball

Elena Luce of Stonemason County Eastern earned 17 full letters for participating in cross country, volleyball, basketball, softball and soccer. She earned all-Western Michigan D League recognition in each of those sports, with basketball game being her strongest sport. She was a three-time Basketball game Coaches Association of Michigan Academic All-Country option and a two-time BCAM All-State selection. She won ...Read More...

Payton Tyndall

2013

Mason County Cardinal - HS Honoree

Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football game

Payton Tyndall accumulated six letters during his high school career in cross country, basketball, baseball and football. In basketball game, he earned honors from the West Michigan Conference, all-commune from the coaches and all-expanse from the Ludington Daily News. In baseball, Tyndall was all-conference honorable mention and all-district. Tyndall has spent time with 4-H, in the Bricklayer County Reform C ...Read More than...

Dean Adams

2012

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball game

Dean Adams helped push the Ludington Orioles to a 1955 N Central Conference title with a 15-4 tape and a Class B commune title while likewise averaging 21 points per game and taking first-squad all-state honors. Post-obit his graduation, he went on to play iii years of varsity hoops at Primal Michigan University, scoring ane,074 points. When his playing days for the Chippewas were over, he was ...Read More...

George Wilson

2012

Scottville Loftier School - Inductee

Media

George Wilson made his mark on Mason County from the broadcast booth, working as play-by-play man for WKLA from the 1950s and into the 1970s. Even after his play-past-play days were over, Wilson stayed behind the microphone, doing public address work for both Mason County Central and Ludington schools for more than 50 years. He also wrote a local sports column for the Ludington Daily News when he wo ...Read More than...

Ken Papes

2012

Free Soil High School - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Track & Field

Ken Papes was a stand up out all-around prep athlete at Free Soil, being a state-grade sprinter, long-jumper and shot-putter in rail and field. In hoops, he averaged more 25 points per game as a senior and had 1,459 points for his career for Complimentary Soil, tops for the school'due south history. In baseball he was a part of the Gratuitous Soil baseball squad that won 54 consecutive games, primarily working as the ...Read More...

Lloyd Wallace

2012

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Media

Lloyd Wallace had a lifetime's work as the sports editor for the Ludington Daily News, retiring in 2011 subsequently a remarkable 41-twelvemonth career. He was instrumental in the Associated Press giving equal coverage to girls athletics through it's polls and all-state teams and won a litany of writing awards in his career, including being named height sports columnist by the AP in the paper's division a record f ...Read More...

Matt Hughes

2012

Ludington High School - Inductee

Rowing, Soccer

Matt Hughes has the distinction of existence Ludington's sole Olympian, having competed in the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, China in rowing. He finished fifth in the men's quadruple sculls in the Olympics, after before winning the world championship in Lucerne, Switzerland. Not just an excellent rower, Hughes was the goalkeeper for Ludington's 1998 and 1999 soccer teams that went a combined 43-4-4 due west ...Read More...

Susan (McDonald) Monaghan

2012

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball, Cross Country

Susan (McDonald) Monaghan has the stardom of being the beginning outstanding girls distance runner in the county, having owned records at Ludington High in the 880-yard, mile, and 2-mile races. No one has surpassed her two-mile mark. She was the state runner-up in 1978 with a time of 11 minutes, vii.7 seconds and placed sixth in the mile. She pioneered the Orioles' cross land program, and did ...Read More...

Alyssa Bryan

2012

Mason County Eastern - HS Honoree

Basketball, Cross Country, Fast-Pitch Softball, Volleyball

Alyssa Bryan is a multiple-letter winner beyond four sports in her four years at Mason County Eastern. She won four messages with the softball and volleyball teams and three others for basketball. She as well has a letter in cross country. She's a four-twelvemonth first-team all-Western Michigan D League softball honoree and has first-team all-WMD honors in basketball game once and volleyball three times. In s ...Read More...

Tyler Thurston

2012

Bricklayer Canton Eastern - HS Honoree

Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer

Tyler Thurston excelled in his athletic endeavors and the classroom for all four years at Mason County Eastern. In all, he earned 12 athletic messages with four each from soccer and baseball and 2 each from cross country and basketball game. In 2012, he captained all four teams he was involved with and earned first-team all-Western Michigan D League honors for each. In basketball game, he tied the single g ...Read More than...

1961 Basketball Team Free Soil Pirates

2011

Free Soil High School - Inductee

Basketball

On the 50th anniversary twelvemonth of its Course D land runnerup season, the 1961 Gratis Soil High boys basketball game team went 25-1 and finished 2nd in the state. Chosen "Carey'southward Comets," the team won its first 25 games, near past wide margins, before losing to Marquette Pierce, 68-61, in the Class D Land championship game. Led by Jim Jackoviak (20.9 points per game), Norm Clausen (17.ix), and Mel Carey (1 ...Read More...

Chadd Holmes

2011

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball game, Soccer

Chadd Holmes is one of just iii Ludington High School basketball players to earn first-squad all-land honors twice. He did it in 1994 when he averaged 18.ix points a game and again in 1995 when he averaged 22.4 points per game for the 22-four Orioles. In high school, the half-dozen-foot-9-inch Holmes likewise started on Ludington's state-ranked soccer teams. After high school, Holmes attended Division one Davidson ...Read More...

Dave Claire

2011

Other - Inductee

Baseball

Born in Ludington in 1897, Claire served in the Navy in World War I, after which he was a strong-armed shortstop with the Ludington Mariners of the Class B Central League in 1920. He was scouted and purchased for $2,000 by the Detroit Tigers, and played iii games in September of that yr, hitting in forepart of Ty Cobb and collecting 1 hit in seven at bats. Claire played three years of professio ...Read More...

Ed Papes

2011

Free Soil High School - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Runway & Field

Ed Papes was a three-sport star for Costless Soil Loftier School, graduating in 1967. In rails and field, he held the school record in the 100-yard nuance (10.4 seconds) and too helped gear up school records in the 880- and mile relays. As a basketball thespian, Papes was a key member on Pirate teams that avant-garde to the Class D state semifinals in 1966 and 1967. He led the latter team in scoring at eighteen.two betoken ...Read More...

Jeanne (Cole) Miller

2011

Stonemason Canton Eastern - Inductee

Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Volleyball

In 2001, Stonemason Canton Eastern rode the pitching and striking of Jeanne (Cole) Miller to the Division iv state championship. She was 31-one and in 195 innings she struck out 288 batters, walked 38 while allowing but 52 base of operations hits and xvi earned runs for what was then the everyman earned run average (0.11) e'er by a prep softball histrion in Michigan. She as well striking .648 with 27 doubles, seven triples, six hom ...Read More than...

Lee Edmundson

2011

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Golf game

Lee Edmundson, as a high schoolhouse sophomore in 1964, shot an 80 in the Class B state golf tournament, helping Ludington High to a share of 2nd identify, three strokes behind co-champions Kalamazoo Academy High and Whitehall. In his junior yr, the Orioles finished ninth as a team but Edmundson was co-medalist in the country meet with a 77. As a senior in 1966, Ludington was fifth and Edmundson sho ...Read More than...

Brandon Melchert

2011

Mason County Fundamental - HS Honoree

Baseball, Basketball, Football

Brandon Melchert lettered three times in both baseball and football and twice in basketball. In football, he was the team's co-captain and most valuable defensive player. As a junior, he was first team All-West Michigan Conference, all-district and all-area in baseball, earning the team's Most Valuable Player Award. He also earned All-WMC Scholar Athlete honors in each of his varsity se ...Read More than...

Kada Knizacky

2011

Mason County Eastern - HS Honoree

Basketball game, Cantankerous Country, Fast-Pitch Softball, Soccer, Track & Field, Volleyball

Kada Knizacky, of Bricklayer County Eastern, was chosen the Stonemason County Sports Hall of Fame's Femaie Scholar Athlete of the Year. Knizacky earned a total of fifteen varsity messages in her four-year athletic career at Eastern. She lettered four times each in cross country and rail and field, three times in volleyball, twice in basketball and once each in softball and soccer. In rails and field, Kni ...Read More...

Nick Allen

2011

Mason County Central - HS Honoree

Baseball, Cantankerous Country, Wrestling

Nick Allen, of Bricklayer County Central, lettered four times in cantankerous country and wrestling and three times in baseball, and was named Mason County Central's Senior Male Athlete of the Year. In wrestling, Nick earned All W Michigan Briefing honors, as well every bit all-district, all-area, and all-state honors and served as the Spartan's team helm. He set a school record with 56 victories in t ...Read More...

About Martha (Garrett) Moore

2010

Ludington High School - Inductee

Gymnastics

Martha Garrett was a iii-time first-team all-state gymnast. She was a cardinal performer for the Orioles in all four years of her high schoolhouse career. During her prep career, Ludington never lost a come across, winning 4 consecutive state championships. The team was undefeated in 73 straight competitions that included duals, briefing and regional championship meets and state finals. Every bit a freshman at sta ...Read More...

Charles Dennis

2010

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Track & Field

Charles Dennis was a 2-time state mile champion for Ludington High in 1931 and 1932. In both years, his autobus, Mitch Read, entered him in the University of Chicago National Interscholastic Track and Field Championships, which drew elite athletes from all over the United States. Dennis was 5th in the mile in 1931 and second in 1932. He attended Michigan Country College where he lettered in rail ...Read More...

Gymnastics Teams 1975-1979 Ludington High Schoolhouse

2010

Ludington High School - Inductee

Gymnastics

When Ludington Loftier started its five-year state championship run in gymnastics, it had been competing in the sport for only two years. The offset land title came in 1975 and Martha Garrett was the alone all-stater on the team. She was 2nd in flooring exercise, third on the uneven parallel bars, fourth in vaulting and tumbling and third in the all-effectually competiton as the team went xix-0 in duals. In ...Read More...

Howard O. Jensen

2010

Ludington High School - Inductee

Coach, Tennis

Howard Jensen coached Ludington High'southward boys lawn tennis teams for 29 years during which the Orioles won 17 briefing and 14 state regional championships. His teams won 292 dual matches and lost 77, a .791 per centum. During one 12-yr bridge, his teams were 174-5 in duals and won 12 conference and xi state regional titles. 8 of his teams finished in the acme 10 at the land finals. His players went ...Read More...

Rich Leonard

2010

Mason County Eastern - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Football, Rail & Field

A 1963 graduate of Mason County Eastern, Rich Leonard was one of that school's finest all-around athletes. He was the leading scorer and rebounder during i of Eastern's most successful runs in basketball. He was also an outstanding athlete in track and field, baseball game, and football. Growing up on a farm in Fountain, Leonard grew into a 6-pes, 3-inch, 220-pound slugger who is arguably the finest ...Read More...

Jay (Junior) Stielstra

2010

Ludington Loftier School - Inductee

Basketball game, Football, Rail & Field

Jay Stielstra participated in runway and field, football and basketball game in all iv years of his high school career. In track and field, he long-jumped 22 anxiety, 9 5/8 inches, setting a school and Mason County record that however stands. It is the oldest canton record nonetheless continuing. In 1950, Stielstra was the Class B land champion in the 180-one thousand hurdles with a time of 20.9 seconds. In 1951, he fini ...Read More...

Chris Conrad

2010

Bricklayer Canton Central - HS Honoree

Cantankerous Country, Soccer, Rails & Field

Chris Conrad earned four letters in track and field, 3 in cross state and one in soccer. He holds school records in the 400-meter dash and was a member of Mason Canton Key'due south state-championship 3,200 meter relay team along with Jake Hernandez, Dan Deller and Jake Lauber. The winning time posted by this team, 7:54.74, was a new school record. He was all-briefing and team captain in cross ...Read More than...

Nikki Arner

2010

Ludington High School - HS Honoree

Basketball, Volleyball

Nikki Arner earned four letters in basketball and two in volleyball. She was named to the Associated Press Form B All-Country team as a sophomore, junior and senior. Arner, who will nourish Ferris State Academy on a basketball scholarship, played in more than winning games (76) in her four-year loftier school career than any other Oriole. Her 1,430 career points places her second on the school's al ...Read More...

Basketball game 1952-53 Ludington High School

2009

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball game

The squad that launched the Golden Historic period of Basketball in Bricklayer County, the 1953 Ludington Orioles won 21 games and lost two and is nevertheless the but LHS squad to advance to the state finals. Coached by Joe Kowatch, who was so in his commencement year at Ludington, the team won the North Cardinal championship likewise as Class B district and regional titles. The team won its starting time four games of the flavor befo ...Read More...

Bob Organ

2009

Ludington Loftier School - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Football game

Bob Organ earned all-state honors in 1989 and 1990 in football and was a member of the Detroit News Blue-Fleck team signifying the best xi players in Michigan. He was also listed as one of the top 100 prep players in the nation by Street & Smith magazine. His junior twelvemonth he caught 13 passes for 215 yards and five touchdowns and Ludington, which was 9-1, was champion of the Seaway Conference. Thursday ...Read More...

Chris Raven

2009

Stonemason Canton Central - Inductee

Basketball

As a high school basketball thespian, Chris Raven scored 1,066 points. When he graduated in 1975, that was 2d only to Mike Hankwitz at Mason County Central. Equally a junior, the 6-foot, 3-inch Raven averaged eighteen.3 points per game. A 2-time All-W Michigan Conference selection in basketball, he was also a kickoff-team Course C all-stater as a senior, scoring 559 points when he averaged a school-recor ...Read More than...

Glenda (Gruno) Krebs

2009

Mason County Central - Inductee

Basketball game, Fast-Pitch Softball, Runway & Field

An outstanding guard, Glenda (Gruno) Krebs scored i,044 points with a single-game high of 37 in her high schoolhouse basketball career, the first daughter at Mason Canton Central to get over a thousand. Said her former teammate and current Mason County Hall of Fame lath fellow member Christy Christmas, "Called 'Daughter-Baby-sit Gruno' because most thought she played like a guy - she could dribble the ball 'like a guy' ...Read More...

J. Russell Houk

2009

Ludington High School - Inductee

Baseball, Fast-Pitch Softball

Russell Houk led Ludington High to Big Vii basketball championships in 1938, 1939 and 1940 and was the Orioles leading scorer his senior flavour. He was the president of his form, graduating with honors. I of the expanse's premier athletes in the 1940'due south and 1950'due south, he attended Fundamental Michigan University where he played middle at vi-feet, 4 inches and 170 pounds, in 1941 and 1942 before enlisting ...Read More...

Chelsea Henderson

2009

Ludington High School - HS Honoree

Basketball game, Cross Country, Track & Field, Volleyball

Chelsea Henderson competed in 4 dissimilar sports at Ludington Loftier School, earning varsity messages in volleyball (2 years), basketball (3 years), cross-country (i year), and track (4 years). In track & field she earned all-conference honors four times, qualified for the state meet three times, and was academic all-state as a freshman on the mile relay. Chelsea likewise garnered all-conference h ...Read More...

Weston Squires

2009

Mason County Central - HS Honoree

Basketball, Football, Runway & Field

A 3 sport athlete, Weston Squires showed dandy leadership skills in his loftier schoolhouse career equally he was selected to be Squad Helm in all three sports. He earned varsity messages in football (two years), basketball (2 years), and rail (4 years). In football game, Weston earned all-conference honors every bit a tight-end and was an all-conference scholar athlete in both football and basketball game. Weston truly ex ...Read More...

Chad Pleiness

2008

Bricklayer County Central - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Football game

Chad is the merely Bricklayer County athlete to earn first-team All-West Michigan Briefing, All-Area and All-State honors in football game, baseball and basketball in the same season. In 1998, he made the Associated Press All-State football team as a punter in the fall. During the winter flavour, he was the leading scorer and rebounder and a consensus offset-team All-Stater on a 26-1 team whose just loss was ...Read More...

Jim Schulte

2008

Bricklayer County Central - Inductee

Baseball game, Coach, Football game, Runway & Field, Wrestling

Jim Schulte got his showtime gustatory modality of organized athletics playing junior high football for the Scottville Blues under Coach Jim Lemire. At Stonemason Canton Fundamental from 1966 to 1969, Schulte played two years of basketball game, participated in runway and field for iv years, football for four years and wrestling for two years. "Football was my sport," said Schulte, who played for Barry Aspenleiter, Sam Or ...Read More than...

Sharon McCumber

2008

Stonemason County Eastern - Inductee

Fast-Pitch Softball

Earlier her junior year at Mason County Eastern, Sharon Stickney was told she would be pitching when the softball flavor started. She was still chucking 30 years later on. Success has followed Sharon, whose last proper name is now McCumber. Her Eastern high school team was the Course D state runner-up in 1977. She went to Oakland Academy where she played softball and volleyball for one year before transfer ...Read More...

John Goulet

2008

Ludington St. Simon - Inductee

Basketball, Double-decker, Football, Golf game

Goulet played basketball for Ludington St. Simon in 1943 equally a freshman. In 1944, his sophomore year, the Shamrocks defeated Ludington Loftier twice. He attended an all-boys schoolhouse in Wisconsin as a junior, playing football and basketball and and then returned to Ludington and St. Simon in 1946. He began a long career in recreation sports in the summer of 1946, playing fast-pitch softball on the Ludington ...Read More...

Wally Sadosty

2008

Ludington High School - Inductee

Athletic Director, Baseball, Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Football, Lawn tennis, Track & Field

Wally Sadosty's athletic career began at the historic period of seven under the wing of basketball game standout Pete Tillotson, who was a member of the first Mason County Sports Hall of Fame grade in 2005. Sadosty played baseball in the bound and summer, football game in the autumn and basketball outside in the winter. In high school, he was the starting quarterback for Ludington High for 3 direct years. Equally a s ...Read More than...

Ashley Melchert

2008

Bricklayer County Central - HS Honoree

Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Volleyball

Ashley Melchert lettered in softball in all four of her loftier schoolhouse seasons, helping Mason County Central achieve the Concluding Four equally a freshman and as a inferior.  In basketball and volleyball she lettered her sophomore, junior and senior years.  She earned All-West Michigan Conference honors in softball her junior and senior seasons and in basketball game and volleyball as a senior.  She earned all-area ...Read More...

Thomas Marshall

2008

Ludington Loftier School - HS Honoree

Baseball, Basketball, Golf, Tennis

With a form bespeak average of four.102, Thomas Marshall finished fourth in his class and was a member of the National Honor Society.   In athletics, he earned 2 varsity letters in basketball and one in baseball, tennis and golf.  He played freshman basketball and junior varsity baseball as a freshman.  In his sophomore year, he played on the inferior varsity in baseball game and basketba ...Read More than...

Hal Madden

2007

Ludington Loftier School - Inductee

Basketball, Coach, Football, Rail & Field

Hal Madden played three years of varsity football at Cardinal Michigan University from 1947 to 1949. Madden was a lineman. He was a center in basketball and a dissever end on offense and defensive cease. He was the scholar athlete of the year as a senior. A native of Detroit, he graduated from Detroit Denby High School where he played football and basketball. After high schoolhouse, he served four years in t ...Read More...

John Wallis

2007

Other - Inductee

Ultra Marathoner

A baseball, basketball, football and soccer thespian as a youth, John Wallis found his athletic niche in 1978 when, at the age of 40, he entered a x-kilmeter race in Chicago. At that time, he was a single parent raising three small daughters and he had neither the time nor financial resources to follow other recreational pursuits. Since then, has run over 75 ultra marathons, including races in Gree ...Read More...

Kristy Stark

2007

Mason County Eastern - Inductee

Baseball game, Coach, Fast-Pitch Softball

A two-time all-state basketball player for Mason County Eastern, Kristy Stark's one,779 points set the country record for career scoring in 1979, breaking the record held by Magic Johnson's sister, Evelyn. Stark earned All-American mention and her scoring tape earned her a spot in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd section and Michigan Senate Resolution. Stark, with her trademark pigtails flyin ...Read More...

Larry MacPhail

2007

Ludington Loftier School - Inductee

Baseball

He was born Leland Stanford MacPhail in Cass City, Michigan. He acquired the name, Larry, when he was officiating Big Ten football games and he was listed in a programme as Lawrence. His friends shortened information technology to Larry and it stuck. His father, C.W. MacPhail, was the founder of the present West Shore Depository financial institution and many other banks in Michigan. Larry lived in Scottville and after in Ludington, where he atte ...Read More...

Ruben Gomez

2007

Ludington High School - Inductee

Autobus, Cross State, Rail & Field

Ruben Gomez was ane of the about loved and respected coaches and teachers in Mason County. He coached track and cantankerous country for 37 years at Bricklayer Canton Eastern and Ludington loftier schools where his squad won many league titles. "One year in high school, I had Mr. Gomez for shop, for vocational agriculture, as a Future Farmers of America advisor and for Spanish. And then, to tiptop information technology off, the following ...Read More...

Jamie Melchert

2007

Mason County Central - HS Honoree

Baseball, Fast-Pitch Softball, Volleyball

The versatile Jamie Melchert earned all-conference honors in softball iv times, in basketball and in volleyball twice. She was also all-expanse in volleyball twice and in softball twice.  Felled by a serious injury, Melchert dropped out of school, taking a rare 'red-shirt' year equally allowed by the Michigan High Schoolhouse Able-bodied Association, while rehabbing her surgical-repaired knee. She came bac ...Read More...

Kyle Cameron

2007

Mason County Key - HS Honoree

Baseball, Basketball game, Football

Kyle Cameron is the 2007 Mason County Fundamental Senior Athlete Award winner and the school'southward Senior Academic Athlete Accolade winner owns a 3.86 grade point average.  In basketball, he was all-conference and all-surface area in 2006 and 2007 and received all-state mention in 2007.  He was also all-conference in baseball game in 2006 and 2007, a seven-time Academic All-Westward Michigan Conference Scholar-Athlete Aw ...Read More than...

Stefanie Morong

2007

Mason County Central - HS Honoree

Basketball game, Fast-Pitch Softball, Volleyball

A four-time all-conference player in softball, Stefanie Morong holds every pitching record in Central'due south tape book. She was also a two-time all-expanse selection and was all-league in basketball game in 2005 and all-league, all-expanse and an all-state honorable mention in volleyball in 2007.  In volleyball, Morong played the libero, the newly designated back-row position that is intended to be used as a ...Read More...

Helen (Shereda) Smith

2006

Gratis Soil High School - Inductee

Basketball, Fast-Pitch Softball

In the early 1970s when girls' athletics in Michigan were just getting their legs, Costless Soil's Helen Shereda was off and flying. With her long arms and legs flapping, she flew similar a giant, unstoppable bird across the basketball courts and softball diamonds of West Michigan. At 6-foot, ane 1/2 inches and 150 pounds, she was a dominating force on the inside in basketball. But she was also the best ba ...Read More than...

Joe Kowatch

2006

Ludington Loftier School - Inductee

Athletic Manager, Basketball, Motorcoach, Football

Joe Kowatch was an outstanding athlete. Built-in in Ionia, he attended Ionia Loftier School where he participated in football, basketball, baseball game and runway. He excelled in football every bit a halfback. Joe's older brother, John, played fullback and his younger brother, Al, was too a halfback. Kowatch attended Michigan Country College after graduating from high school in 1929. In 1930, he moved up to the varsi ...Read More...

Melanie (Weaver) Barnett

2006

Stonemason County Fundamental - Inductee

Runway & Field

On an unseasonably common cold day in the leap of 1979, Bricklayer County Central girls track and field motorbus Gerry Genter idea it would speed things forth if the 2-mile races for boys and girls were combined in their dual meet with North Muskegon. "Their (able-bodied managing director) came upward to me and we were talking about doubling up because it was so cold. He said he didn't really want to do that considering it westward ...Read More...

Mike Larsen

2006

Ludington High School - Inductee

Baseball game, Football, Track & Field

A 2-fourth dimension all-country basketball player at Ludington Loftier, Mike Larsen fix records for the most points scored in a career (i,336) and in a game (45). He also set records for rebounds in a career (1,097), a season (460) and a game (30). Mike led the Orioles to a 19-4 cease and a berth in the Grade B country semifinals in 1971. Averaging 23.7 points per game as a junior and 25 as a senior, he earned A ...Read More...

Steve Papes

2006

Free Soil Loftier Schoolhouse - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball game, Fast-Pitch Softball, Track & Field

The oldest of three baseball-playing brothers from Complimentary Soil who competed for Fundamental Michigan University, Steve Papes earned All-America honors in 1970, when he was the about valuable role player and captain on a 36-four Chippewa team. "A great deal of the success we had this season was due to Steve's leadership on and off the field," said his double-decker, Waldo Sauter. Papes set CMU single-season records for ...Read More...

Tim Quinn

2006

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Basketball game, Football game, Track & Field

At 165 pounds, Tim Quinn was well-muscled. At 6-foot-1, he was lean and angular with the kind of physique that would lend itself to any endeavor. Indeed, when he graduated from Ludington High in January 1932, the quick-to-smile, piece of cake-going Quinn was the school's best football game player, best basketball game actor and, oh, yes, its all-time track runner. His time of 1 minute, 57.ii seconds in the 880-yard run ...Read More...

Danielle Drewry

2006

Bricklayer County Eastern - HS Honoree

Basketball, Cross Country, Track & Field, Volleyball

Danielle Drewry earned twelve varsity messages in her four years of high school at Mason County Eastern - ane in cross land, three in volleyball, four in basketball game and four in track and field. She made the All-Western Michigan D League team in cross state in one case, in basketball twice, in volleyball twice and in rails and field three times. The versatile Drewry was besides the recipien ...Read More than...

Kyle Gurzynski

2006

Ludington High School - HS Honoree

Baseball, Basketball, Soccer

Ludington High School's success in baseball game, basketball game and soccer over the last 4 years was due, in no small part, to the contributions of Kyle Gurzynski. He earned three varsity letters in each sport. In baseball, Ludington won three consecutive briefing titles and Gurzynski, the starting shortstop and a relief bullpen, was named to the All-Western Waterways squad all three years. This sprin ...Read More...

Jeff Barnett

2005

Mason County Cardinal - Inductee

Basketball, Cross State, Track & Field

Jeff Barnett was the first expanse athlete to earn All-State honors in 3 sports: basketball game, cross country and rail. His performance in the 1986 Course C State Rail and Field Finals at Bangor has never been equaled, let alone surpassed. On an unseasonably warm day, Barnett won the 800-, 1,600- and iii,200-meter races and was the anchorman on the winning iii,200-meter relay squad for Bricklayer County Cent ...Read More than...

Luke & Tater Jensen

2005

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Tennis

Growing up in Ludington, Luke went with his mother, Patricia, to East 1000 Rapids, where he became a state champion tennis role player during his high school years. He attended the University of Southern California and was an All-American in singles and doubles. During his playing career he was known as "Dual Hand Luke" for his ability to serve with either hand. Known for his competitiveness and tough ...Read More than...

Maria (Shoup) Holbrook

2005

Stonemason County Eastern - Inductee

Track & Field

As she enters the Bricklayer County Sports Hall of Fame, Maria (Shoup) Holbrook has won more individual rails and field state championships, ten, than any other female in Michigan. A 1981 Mason County Eastern High School graduate, Maria'southward loftier school career accomplishments went similar this: 1978 - Won the 880-yard run in a state record time of 2 minutes, 20.1 seconds; won the 440 in 58.7 1979 - Won the 8 ...Read More than...

Max Carey

2005

Complimentary Soil Loftier School - Inductee

Baseball, Basketball, Coach

Gratis Soil was a small customs, but the success of its basketball plan under the tutelage of Max Carey was large. In Carey'due south 26 years as their coach, the Pirates won or shared 15 Western Michigan D League championships, xi Class D commune titles and v regional championships. His record in the state quarterfinals was 3-1 and his overall record was 476-177. His 1961 and 1971 Costless Soil teams ...Read More...

Mike Hankwitz

2005

Mason County Central - Inductee

Basketball game, Football, Track & Field

George Michael Hankwitz made his mark in athletics every bit a participant at Mason Canton Central High Schoolhouse, as a member of the University of Michigan's football team and as a long-time assistant higher football coach. In his 40 years of coaching, his teams have recorded 34 winning seasons. He has also coached in 25 basin games, including every major New Year's Day bowl game including the Rose, Sugar, ...Read More than...

Pete Tillotson

2005

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball

Ludington High became the first team in Mason County to accomplish the state finals in basketball game. With Pete Tillotson at middle, Joe Kowatch coached the Orioles to a 21-2 tape and a state runner-up cease in 1952. In 1953, the Orioles were 18-4 and a state semifinalist. Tillotson was the Orioles' leading scorer and an all-stater in both seasons. At Ludington, the 6 foot six inch tall Tillotson set the ...Read More...

Matt Flutur

2005

Mason County Central - HS Honoree

Baseball, Basketball, Football game, Track & Field

Bricklayer County Fundamental'due south football team was 7-4 in 2004 and advanced to the Division V commune finals for the first time, due in big office to the quarterbacking of Matt Flutur. The senior athlete of the twelvemonth at MCC, Flutur played football for four years, basketball for four years, baseball game for one year and track and field for iii years. He won his school's "Mr. Spartan" Laurels in basketball game and fo ...Read More...

Taryn Ezdebski

2005

Ludington Loftier School - HS Honoree

Basketball game, Soccer, Volleyball

Taryn Ezdebski, a Ludington Loftier School graduate, lettered three times in three sports: basketball, volleyball and soccer. She was a fundamental member of the basketball game team which advanced to the Class B country semifinals for the first time ever and compiled a best-ever record of 24 wins against three losses. Ezdebski started at guard. In soccer, she was a starter on defense and the Orioles were 17-8-ane, a ...Read More...

Zachary Quinn

2020

Mason County Fundamental - HS Honoree

Wrestling

Zachary Quinn Quinn wrestled for four seasons for the Mason County Central Spartans, earning All-State recognition twice.  He was a two fourth dimension Westward Michigan Conference champion, and he was the captain of the team for two years.  He set a school record for takedowns in a flavor at 118.  Quinn also received messages in football for two seasons, cross country for one season and three years in base of operations ...Read More...

Steve Schoenherr

2019

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball

Steve Schoenherr Steve Schoenherr is a 1958 graduate of Ludington where he earned all-conference honors twice, scored 705 total points. He prepare a single high game point total of 42 for a squad and league record. He was a winning middle distance runner at LHS. He was named first team All-State past both the Detroit News and Detroit Costless Press in 1958 in basketball. He went on to the University of Mi ...Read More...

Robert Ayers

2020

Ludington High School - Inductee

Fast-Pitch Softball

Robert "Bob" Ayers Robert "Bob" Ayers, a 1944 Ludington High Schoolhouse graduate, was a state runner-upwards in high hurdles and 5th in low hurdles his senior year. He too played football and basketball and became an accomplished bowler in Bricklayer County. He helped organize fastpitch softball equally the president of the Mason County Softball Clan and was an outstanding fastpitch softball pitcher ...Read More than...

Rebecca Jensen Dilanni

2019

Ludington High School - Inductee

Lawn tennis

Rebecca Jensen Dilanni Rebecca Jensen Dilanni garnered top 10 rankings equally a youth, and somewhen turned professional. She, and twin sis Rachel Jensen Faucett, were ranked in the elevation 5 nationally in doubles play and won national tournaments in their teenage years. Dilanni earned a scholarship at Kansas University where she was one one-half of a doubles national championship. Rebecca was twice ...Read More...

Rachel Jensen Faucett

2019

Ludington High School - Inductee

Tennis

Rachel Jensen Faucett Rachel Jensen Faucett was one of the summit individual tennis players for her respective age as a youth, garnering elevation ten rankings in singles and doubles, and eventually going professional. Paired with twin sister Rebecca Jensen Dilanni, they were ranked in the summit 5 nationally in doubles play through their teenage years. Faucett experienced high WTA singles ranking, won thou ...Read More than...

Mike Evans

2022

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball

Mike Evans graduated from Ludington High School in 1963. He played basketball and baseball for the Orioles and in 1963, was a Free Press all-land commencement team selection. He averaged over 18 points per game in 1963 and was chosen to Wood Television's Westward Michigan All Star Team. In both 1962 and 1963, Evans was selected to the North Central Conference first squad. Evans was considered to be on the cutti ...Read More...

Lyford Immature

2022

Free Soil Loftier School - Inductee

Basketball

Lyford Young played basketball and ran rails at Free Soil high school, graduating with the Class of 1955. Lyford was a beginning squad All-WMD Conference pick in 1953, 1954 and 1955. His team won the District Title in 1954 and 1955. In the 1954-55 flavour, Young scored 420 points, averaging 19.ane points per game. Young went on to score 975 points in his loftier school career. In both 1954 and 19 ...Read More...

Kelly Smith

2020

Mason County Key - Inductee

Motocross

Kelly Smith Kelly Smith, a Ludington native, competed professionally in motocross. He is a three-fourth dimension East Coast iv-stroke national champion, a two-time U.Southward. Open up of Supercross Champion, the first e'er Motocross Outdoor National winner on a KTM motorbike and an 11-time national Arenacross winner. Smith recently switched to watercross, racing on jet skis and watercrafts and is a two-time wor ...Read More...

Jeff Henry

2019

Mason County Central - Inductee

Wrestling

Jeff Henry Jeff Henry is a 1977 graduate of Mason Canton Key, and he is Mason County's get-go ever state champion in the sport of wrestling. Henry won the title at 138 pounds with an undefeated record of 32-0 during his senior year. Henry was a four-fourth dimension land tournament qualifier — a first for a Stonemason County wrestler — and he was the state runner-up in 1976 at 132 pounds with a 32-1 rec ...Read More than...

Harrie Volkers

2019

Ludington Loftier School - Inductee

Basketball

Harrie Lee Volkers Harrie Lee Volkers is a 1960 graduate of Ludington where he played football, basketball, baseball game and track. He earned All-Conference and All-State honors during his senior year in basketball game, and he amassed 937 career points. Harrie was considered i of LHS's best "big men" during the aureate years of LHS basketball, and voted "Most Athletic" in 1960. He went on to ...Read More...

Erica Bieniek

2019

Bricklayer County Central - Inductee

Erica Reed Erica Reed, a 1999 graduate of Mason County Key, golfed 4 years for Bricklayer County Key's boys' team, and she was the team well-nigh valuable player her senior year. She went on to play four seasons at Western Michigan University where she was a iii-year captain and was voted the most valuable player three years. She earned first team All-Mid-American Conference while setting ...Read More...

Dr. Bill Anderson

2019

- Inductee

Contributor

Dr. William M. Anderson is 1 of the foremost historians on the Detroit Tigers, writing The Detroit Tigers: A Pictorial Celebration of the Greatest Players and Moments in Tiger History, The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers, 1920-1950, and The View From the Dugout: The Journals of Cerise Rolfe. He co-authored Rick Ferrell: Knuckleball Catcher with the former Tigers passenger vehicle and vice president, and 4 ...Read More...

Dave Killips

2020

Ludington High Schoolhouse - Inductee

Tennis

Dave Killips Dave Killips won 100-plus tennis matches at Ludington Loftier School on his way to conference, regional, and country tournament qualification. Dave played in both singles and doubles play and was 29-2 at No. 1 singles his senior yr. Killips went on to prepare a record for victories as a freshman at Fundamental Michigan University and was his flight'southward champion in the Mid-American Conference ...Read More...

Christy Christmas

2022

Mason County Cardinal - Inductee

Softball

Christy Christmas, of Ludington, graduated in 1979 from Bricklayer County Central. Christmas coached softball at Mason County Primal where the team accumulated 302 wins during her tenure. She had vii West Michigan Conference titles, six district titles, three regional titles, and twice took her team to the state semi-finals, each time losing by one run to the eventual state champion. Christmas was a ...Read More...

Bob Cameron

2022

Bricklayer County Primal - Inductee

Wrestling

Bob Cameron, of Scottville, graduated in 1979 from Mason County Central. His senior year he was undefeated at 167 pounds and went on to merits the country championship in wrestling as he assisted his squad in challenge the land runner-up title that year. Cameron went to Western Michigan University intending to wrestle, but WMU dropped their wrestling program. Bob besides participated in rail and cantankerous c ...Read More...

Annie (Tewel) Sadosty

2020

Ludington High School - Inductee

Basketball

Dr. Annie (Tewel) Sadosty  Annie (Tewel) Sadosty, a 1987 Ludington Loftier School graduate, earned all-conference, all-area, and all-state honors in basketball and all-briefing, all-regional, and all-state honors in rails. She was only the 2d female person to score 1,000 career points in basketball game at LHS and was a state runner-upwards in the 3200-meter run in track. Annie played two seasons of basketb ...Read More...

Alvin "Al" Hardman

2022

Ludington High School - Inductee

Canis familiaris Sled Racing

Alvin "Al" Hardman loved take a chance and when he was in his 50s, he competed in his first of 4 Iditarod sled dog races, one of the about grueling sports events in the world. The Iditarod is 1,151 miles long. Hardman's best  terminate was in 2002 when he was 21st. His last Iditarod was run in 2004 when he was in his early 60'south. Hardman competed in races across the United states, finishing fo ...Read More...

Adrianna Malburg

2020

Custer High School - HS Honoree

Cross State, Rail & Field

Malburg was a standout in cantankerous country and rails at Mason Canton Eastern. She is a four-time country-qualifying runner and twice was All-Country, and she is a four-time Grade D All-Country runner. She captained the cross land team the her Inferior and Senior yr. f She was All-Western Michigan D League all four seasons.  In track, she is a 2-time state qualifier and earned All-WMD twice on the fir ...Read More...

Adam Johnson

2020

Ludington High School - Inductee

Soccer

Adam Johnson earned starting time-team All-State honors twice while playing soccer at Ludington High School, was a member of the 1994 land runner-up team, and was the first Mason County soccer player to actively play at a Division I college. Afterwards his career at Western Michigan University, Adam played for Thames Valley University in London and started on the North London Cup championship squad. Johnson pl ...Read More...

2007 MCC Volleyball Team

2020

Bricklayer County Cardinal - Inductee

Volleyball

2007 MCC Volleyball Stonemason County Central's volleyball team concluded their 2007 season equally MHSAA Class B land runners-up with a 52-9-3 record. The Spartans shell Belding for the school's first ever volleyball regional title, swept Cadillac in the quarterfinals, and rallied for a victory over Carleton Airport in the semi-finals to confront nationally-ranked Grand Rapids South Christian in the land ...Read More than...