OT: What High School did you go to? And how were they in Sports?

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OT: What High School did you go to? And how were they in Sports?

I've seen some school trash talk going on in some threads over the last few weeks, and now that signing day is done, and it's things are slowing down again, I thought I'd see-

For those that want to reveal that much info about themselves, where did you go to school, was the Football team good? (Or great, if in a State other than Michigan that we'd recognize it). Who were your rivals? Any great memories? Or were you a basketball school? Or just not good at sports and such.

Me? Dearborn Fordson Tractors, great football, great tradition, winner for years and years, and origin of our newest preferred walk-on (Which is the thread this all got started for me...though I've seen more trash talk just recently). Only a handful of schools sport a better winning percentage, even fewer at the same level. Even less if you take the Catholic schools out of it (*cough*cough* recruiting*ahem*). But yeah, that's the limit of my smack talk.

How about you? What were you before you were a Michigan Man (or woman)?

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February 18th, 2010 at 4:24 PM | Racine Park (Score:1)
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in Wisconsin. Home of Brent Moss, Kevin Barry, Chris Maragos for 3 years....and RB John Clay. Park won the state football title in 1988, and in 2006 (when Clay ran for 256 yards and 3 40+ yard TDs in the title game).

Currently, Park's basketball team is 18-0 and second in the state.

And we sport Florida Gator colors.

February 18th, 2010 at 5:34 PM | West Ottawa (Score:1)
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Holland, Michigan. Rob Renes. need I say more

February 18th, 2010 at 5:39 PM | Rob Renes spent a year as an (Score:1)
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Rob Renes spent a year as an assistant football coach in Chelsea when he was recovering for his attempted NFL comeback. Though I didn't get to interact much with him, he seemed like a nice guy.

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February 18th, 2010 at 9:26 PM | Nice man (Score:1)
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I grew up in Holland. Great place. Went to Longfellow Elementary.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:25 PM | I went to (Score:1)
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Hilliard Darby High School in Hilliard Ohio. Not a bad high school, the sports were pretty average. We have produced some recent names in college football such as Jeremey Ebert a WR at Northwestern, Antonio Jeramiah a defensive lineman at MSU and a few others who I can't recall which college they play for or got accepted to. We did have a player who went all the way into the NFL and played for the Rams. Our mascot was the Panther and our fight song was LSU's.

Stuck in Columbus.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:26 PM | Bad (Score:1)
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I went to Blissfield, and our football team didn't win a game in my four years. Fortunately the program is WAY better now, but baseball has been and always will be king in that tiny town.

Those who stay will be champions.

February 18th, 2010 at 5:31 PM | Columbia Central and (Score:1)
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Columbia Central and Blissfield made up for most all of our wins in that time period. Thank you for that.

February 18th, 2010 at 10:02 PM | Any other Golden Eagles? (Score:1)
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I went to Columbia Central, class of 2000. I know our football team was nothing special during my time. I watched my brother (class of 2003) play a few games and they seemed decent from what I remember....

February 18th, 2010 at 8:20 PM | Live in Adrian and work in Blissfield (Score:1)
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You're correct, Baseball is king in that town. You have a glove and ball in your hand as soon as you can walk.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:27 PM | What, did your chance in the (Score:1)
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What, did your chance in the other threads to brag about your school's football team pass you by?

Anyway, GP South, and we suck for the most part at football. And of course the first time in many, many years, if ever, that we send a scholarship football player to a I-A school, he goes to Ohio State. Much more of a hockey and swimming and baseball school, anyway.

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February 18th, 2010 at 4:33 PM | Maize, Which Year? (Score:1)
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Also a GPS grad (09), and I will second what Maize said. I would also add XC to the list of sports we are good at. At least we won states in hockey during my time there.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:48 PM | 2000. No state championships (Score:1)
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2000. No state championships during my time, but the hockey team made the finals one year and the baseball team won the year after I left.

But I did have a (very small) hand in starting the unbroken run of division titles in swimming, which has been going strong since 1999.

EDIT: oh yeah, as far as state championships, girl's hockey did win like a whole bunch of 'em in a row, but there are/were like only six or eight teams in the state.

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February 18th, 2010 at 5:15 PM | I graduated from GPN in 2000. (Score:1)
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I graduated from GPN in 2000. I played lacrosse and soccer, and as I recall we were not very good at football outside of my freshman year. Actually most sports weren't that great, I guess girls basketball, although we were always decent at soccer and lost in the state final in lacrosse when I was a senior.

Edit:

Dave Legwand of the Nashville Predators went here, I had a class with him as a junior.

February 18th, 2010 at 5:21 PM | and as I recall we were not (Score:1)
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and as I recall we were not very good at football outside of my freshman year.

Better than us :(

Maybe one day Sumbera will retire, Sumbera : South :: Tressel : Michigan, only he's been around for approximately 300 years.

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February 18th, 2010 at 5:26 PM | I'm so out of touch that I (Score:1)
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I'm so out of touch that I didn't even know he still coached, I thought for sure he'd have retired by now, he was old 10 years ago.

February 18th, 2010 at 5:34 PM | I'm GPS '08. Don't forget (Score:1)
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I'm GPS '08. Don't forget girls tennis--they were state runners-up, I think, a few years ago.

In addition to the guy who went to OSU from the class of '09, Chris Getz (KC Royals, formerly ChiSox, in addition to Michigan) graduated from South. They're retiring his number this season, I heard.

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February 18th, 2010 at 5:43 PM | They Won (Score:1)
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Girls tennis won that year and they're usually pretty good. Tennis in general was pretty good at South. They were always in good position at states.

February 18th, 2010 at 9:43 PM | I totally forgot about (Score:1)
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I totally forgot about tennis. Boys' tennis was better than girls' back when I was there - pretty phenomenal team and in fact now that I think about it, we had some state champion doubles players too.

Funny that most of these top sports at South always had to play their home games/meets elsewhere.

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February 18th, 2010 at 8:21 PM | #11 (Score:1)
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was retired at the South/North hoops game last month.

February 18th, 2010 at 11:25 PM | Holy Crap, another GP South Blue Devil here? (Score:1)
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Class of '71. When I was there we were great in swimming and tennis, not so much in football and basketball. No hockey, soccer, or lacrosse back then. Not sure about if girls' field hockey was being played, either.

We were members of the old Border Cities League, which included Fordson, Wyandotte Roosevelt, Highland Park, Royal Oak Dondero, and one or two other schools I can't remember. My final year of football was JV, during which I tore ligaments in both shoulders. A big fullback from Dondero ran me over and knocked me silly during one game. Odd thing is I ended up marrying a girl who went to Dondero.


February 18th, 2010 at 11:44 PM | Holy shit, you predate the S (Score:1)
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Holy shit, you predate the S Building. Shame - you never got to take part in one of the better traditions: telling a freshman to take five left turns before he got to the classroom he was looking for.

Two questions: did the football team suck as bad back then as they did thirty years later, and didn't the swim team win a state championship or two way back in the late '60s?

Never realized we had so many Blue Devils on the board. Good times.

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February 19th, 2010 at 1:43 AM | Don't know what the S building is exactly (Score:1)
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but maybe it's that big ugly addition that fronts on Fisher Rd?

The football team won a conference title my sophomore year ('69) but went downhill the next two years. The creation of GP North (in '70) diluted what paltry football talent there was in GP to begin with and I think the rapid decline of the GPS football fortunes are connected to the split. A receiver on the '67 or '68 team went on to play for Nebraska, which was a power back then under Bob Devaney.

Swimming was a different matter—we won a state championship in '69 and perhaps one more before then or after. Tennis was pretty strong when I was there, too. Gee, swimming and tennis strength in Grosse Pointe—who would guess?

After injuring my shoulders in JV football my athletic exploits were limited to track and cross country. Without a doubt the latter was the most miserable athletic experience in my life. I'm not one to have regrets about the past, but one I do have is that I didn't play baseball instead of being a mediocre-at-best middle distance guy on the track team. Fielding grounders would have been a hell of a lot more fun than running sixteen quarter-miles during track practice.


February 19th, 2010 at 8:31 AM | Don't know what the S (Score:1)
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Don't know what the S building is exactly but maybe it's that big ugly addition that fronts on Fisher Rd?

Yup. It's a square with staircases on three of the sides. "How do I get to such and such a class?" "Oh, that's easy, you go to the S building over there, take a left, take another left, go up the stairs and then go left three more times and you're there."

Gee, swimming and tennis strength in Grosse Pointe—who would guess?

Shocking :) However, it's highly possible that the tennis coach was and is the same guy.

How would you have swung a bat with two messed up shoulders?

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February 19th, 2010 at 10:33 AM | Also GPS (03). I was one (Score:1)
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Also GPS (03). I was one year behind Getz and the baseball team was great while I was there. Basketball however went 2-the rest of the games one of my years, and football wasn't much better if I remember correctly.

Edit: Women's volleyball and lax were also great but for entirely different reasons. Good times...

February 18th, 2010 at 4:28 PM | Pioneer (Score:1)
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'96

IIRC (Christ I can't believe it's been 14 years) we weren't that good in football at the time.

Kicked ass in tennis though. And, obviously, swimming.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:29 PM | your football team (Score:1)
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could still beat my football team!

February 18th, 2010 at 4:42 PM | A2 Pioneer as well (Score:1)
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a little before that, when we were winning state titles in football.

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February 18th, 2010 at 5:17 PM | Purple Gang (Score:1)
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While football has been up and down since the two state championships in the 1980s, Pioneer has been dominant in a plethora of other sports. Pioneer consistently wins state titles in tennis and swimming for both boys and girls. The girls track team is the most dominant in the state, and the same goes for field hockey. Both water polo teams are not only state, but regional powers. Add in that teams like boys cross country, boys track, boys basketball, baseball and golf (both) have won or competed for state titles in the last few years and the Pioneer AD looks even better. The Pioneers were also consistently the best program in Class and top 3 overall every year when the Ann Arbor News tabulated a Director's Cup-like formulation for the top school in the state based on team performance in state tournaments. When SI did a thing on top high school programs in the country, it was criminal that Pioneer was left out, especially because they listed a UP school as the top program, when those schools don't even compete with the rest of the state in most sports!

February 18th, 2010 at 5:35 PM | Ann Arbor Pioneer (Score:1)
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What he said!

February 18th, 2010 at 11:59 PM | Now if we could just keep all (Score:0 Offtopic)
February 18th, 2010 at 5:27 PM | My swim coach used to always (Score:1)
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My swim coach used to always schedule Pio for us (and always make it a road meet on purpose) because we were a pretty good team but he wanted us to see what an actual good team looked like (and swam in) and not get our heads too full of ourselves.

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February 18th, 2010 at 10:05 PM | Three Oaks River Valley (Score:1)
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Hoops State Champs 1979
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February 18th, 2010 at 5:51 PM | Graduated in '01. Played (Score:1)
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Graduated in '01. Played football, and yeah, it was still bad then. The swimming titles they won, though, filled two banners.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:31 PM | Algonac High School, mid 90's (Score:1)
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Our football team was beyond bad.
Our basketball team wasn't any good.
Our baseball team was below average.
Our track teams were always good.
Our wrestling team was always good, always had kids goin' to states, and we even had a couple state champions.
Our band was awesome!

February 18th, 2010 at 4:33 PM | Northwest High School, late 90's (Score:1)
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All sports were mediocre at best, but the band was amazing!

At football games there were more people in the stands to see the band than the football team.

February 18th, 2010 at 5:20 PM | Do you know (Score:1)
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the Mackey twins?

February 18th, 2010 at 5:44 PM | Graduated with them actually! (Score:1)
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Graduated with them actually!

February 18th, 2010 at 5:53 PM | Hahaha ... awesome (Score:1)
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I dated one of them a few years ago.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:36 PM | Sterling Heights Stevenson (Score:1)
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03 Grad
Football team is very very good. Numerous Division titles, Many district titles and regional titles, unfortunaly we cannot close the deal in states, damn catholic schools lol

Baseball team has turned into a powerhouse. State champs in 06

Basketball team, district title in 03 other than that not good

We will have our vengeance- Michigan football 2010 

February 18th, 2010 at 6:32 PM | Sterling Heights Stevenson (Score:1)
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04 grad
and ditto to Smitty D

HAIL!

February 18th, 2010 at 7:37 PM | Sterling Heights Stevenson (Score:1)
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nice to see you on here litt1e rhino
04 grad as well

February 19th, 2010 at 1:42 AM | Makes me wonder if we know (Score:1)
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Makes me wonder if we know each other.

HAIL!

February 19th, 2010 at 2:52 PM | Eisenhower 05, we ran (Score:1)
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Eisenhower 05, we ran Stevenson and all of metro Detroit during my time there. Great foootball school.

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February 18th, 2010 at 4:38 PM | what the hell (Score:1)
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I was about to come on here and say almost the exact same thing. lolmuskrats (2001).

small world

February 19th, 2010 at 12:16 AM | BWAC in the house (Score:1)
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Although it was STA back then right? I'm from Richmond, so I've seen a lot of Algonac, and I think your sports have largely reversed rolls since then. Football got decent, Basketball is actually pretty dang good, and wrestling has fallen off the map.

We are pretty good at most sports, at least in the area. We're always in the mix for league titles in Cross Country and long distance track runners on both boys and girls, football, basketball, softball, baseball, and soccer. I know we've won 1 soccer state title, and our cheerleaders are very competitive on the state level. It's really all about wrestling though, we've got 3 team state titles, in 2000, 2002, and 2006, 3 or 4 more state finals appearences, 8 or 9 regional titles, and 13 district titles in a row. We're pretty good this year too, just beat the #8 team in D3 60-13 or something close to that to advance to Battle Creek. Oddly enough, we only have 2 individual state champions, thanks to an incredible string of bad luck that involved one wrestler placing 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, and 3rd in each year of his career.

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February 18th, 2010 at 4:29 PM | Brother Rice (Score:1)
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and pretty good. Except for basketball.

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February 18th, 2010 at 5:04 PM | Pumpkin Head! (Score:1)
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Go Shamrocks!

(Just kidding about the Pumpkin head thing.)

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February 18th, 2010 at 5:10 PM | Me Too (Score:1)
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Good ol' Al Fracasa.

We were also good at Lacrosse and Swimming in my day.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:33 PM | Went to Greenville High in (Score:1)
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Went to Greenville High in Michigan(2002).

I played basketball and we were ranked as high as 8th in the state. We were beat in playoffs by the number 1 ranked team Rockford(a few points).

In football we were knocked out in the 2nd round.

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February 18th, 2010 at 4:41 PM | Sorry about that... (Score:1)
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I believe I was at that RHS GHS game in 2002. That was easily the best team Rockford has ever put together and is our only basketball state title team. I guess if it's any consolation, you lost to the championship team. We had quite a few close wins in that playoff run. Could've gone either way.

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