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)?
February 18th, 2010 at 6:45 PM ^
Troy Athens Redhawks!
We were awesome at women's soccer...I think that's about it.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:06 PM ^
Me too :) I think we're also good at men's soccer...but yeah, no football championships unfortunately :( (although, my graduating year, our band was really good haha)
February 18th, 2010 at 9:32 PM ^
That's awesome! I was in the symphony orchestra (viola woo!) What year did you graduate? I graduated in '02!
February 18th, 2010 at 10:13 PM ^
Haha, wow, small world. I was in symphony orchestra as well (violin). I graduated in '05. My brother was concertmaster in '02.
February 19th, 2010 at 5:57 AM ^
haha Chris is that you?
February 18th, 2010 at 6:54 PM ^
UM QB/Detroit Tiger Rick Leach, All-American Baseball Player Dick Leach Coached, RB Coach Fred Jackson Coached, CMU Baseball Coach Steve Jacksa Coached, Cincinnati Bengal LB Reggie Williams, San Fran RB Ricky Patton, UM QB Gary Lee, UM TE Gene Johnson, Illinois Coach Reggie Mitchell, Pro Baseball Coach/Player Merv Rettenmund, Pro Basketball Player Charlie Bell, OSU/Florida Southern Hoop Anthony Crater, Heisman Winner Mark Ingram, Oklahoma Basketball Player Andre Wiley, UM Receiver Dr. Rodney Feaster, Dallas Cowboy DB UM DB Brian Carpenter.....
Buffalo Bill #1 Draft Pick PSU RB Booker Moore (RIP)
Actor Terry Crews c/o 1990 Played Football
Played Against Flint Central UM Pitcher/California Angel/NY Yankee Jim Abbott; Flint NW MSU Pro Receiver Andre Rison to name a few....
February 18th, 2010 at 7:29 PM ^
You may have heard of our HATED rival, Cretin-Derham Hall (i.e. Seantrel Henderson, Michael Floyd, Joe Mauer, Chris Weinke, Paul Molitor, etc).
So yeah...CDH routinely kicks our butts in football and basketball, but we're usually awesome in preppy sports dominated by rich white guys, like skiing and swimming. Our sole athletic claim to fame is fmr. Wolverine swimmer Tom Malchow.
AND WE DOMINATED QUIZ BOWL AND MATH TEAM!!!
February 18th, 2010 at 7:36 PM ^
Oh yeah quizbowl. Our quizbowl has won 11 straight I think, and 1 or 2 national.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:37 PM ^
Football - made the playoffs this year for the first time in about 10 years. Played QB/DB and we were not very good
Basketball - Respectable but never a long playoff run
Baseball - a laughing stock. I believe we perfected the 3 inning mercy rule
Track - Great, won 2 team state titles and had a handful of athletes won individual state titles.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:38 PM ^
Perrysburg High School in Perrysburg, Ohio. Jim Leyland and Jerry Glanville went there ages ago. OK in football and basketball, nothing amazing. I guess we are pretty good at soccer, but who cares about that?
February 18th, 2010 at 7:40 PM ^
Alumni include Deion Sanders, Jevon Kearse, Noel Devine in football. Mike Greenwell in baseball. Ricky Ward of the PBA. No major titles, but solid alumni in pro sports.
February 18th, 2010 at 8:05 PM ^
Class of '03, looks like we need more up north representation on this board. Been bad at most sports since the early 80s, with some good basketball and baseball teams sprinkled in here and there (we beat Jrich when I was young and Eric Devendorf when he played in Bay City). Also, Eric Puls is an awesome kid.
February 18th, 2010 at 8:41 PM ^
Where the hell is that, you ask?
Laurinburg, NC. Football team was pretty good when I was there. In the state playoffs every year, though we never won it all. Our arch rival was Richmond County... it was seriously the UM/OSU of NC high school football. Although things have apparently dropped off, as SHS is on something like a 14-year losing streak to those bastards. Ugh.
February 18th, 2010 at 8:51 PM ^
We weren't all that dominant while I was there, but we've produced some reasonable football talent, before and after:
Bertran Berry, pro bowl DE for AZ. His mom was my econ teacher--she was terrible. All she did was talk about the Escalade Bertran bought her.
David Givens, receiver for the Patriots.
David Boston, I forget where he went school...some community college, I think.
Leo Mills--OMG shirtless running back recruit who didn't pan out at 'Zona
Also, the current QB for A&M. His dad was my principal before he passed away.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:52 PM ^
Did you forget where David Givens went too? ;-)
February 18th, 2010 at 9:18 PM ^
I'm not telling which one, but my high school has been mentioned in this thread.
I bet you can't figure it out.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:54 PM ^
Well, I THOUGHT I had it numbered down to Monroe or Allen Park. And I haven't seen Allen Park mentioned in this thread yet.
But considering your recent post Re: your job, I think I'm going to let it slide...better unsaid.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:36 PM ^
Marine City (MI) High School, class of 93. Average in most sports, with some ups and downs while I was there - I think there was a softball state champ when I as there. More recently, state champs in football, but I don't know which class.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:22 PM ^
I went to high school at Vandercook Lake which is just south of Jackson. Track & field and bowling were the only sports that had success. Bowling started as a varsity sport my junior or senior year and if I remember correctly, they won a state title in the 2004-05 school year.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:28 PM ^
Football consistenty pretty good, my junior year we went to the semis and got knocked out by EGR with Kevin and Kelvin. I think I jinxed Kevin when I told him good luck at UM at the end of the game. Damn me.
Wrestling is pretty sick if they could just win a team title. Their coach just broke the state wins record like two months ago.
Band is always good they have gone to DC and I think they were in the Rose bowl parade recently I'm to lazy to look it up.
Basketball is decent.
Most notable athlete Andrew Hartline went to CMU and is chillin with Henne and Long and the Dolphins.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:32 PM ^
When I was there, pretty bad at football, mediocre to respectable in everything else. No idea any more (I've been in Colorado since '99).
February 18th, 2010 at 11:07 PM ^
Jesse Johnson, the Curry brothers, Darnell Hood and Braylon to UM.
When I attended it was baseball, baseball and more baseball; state champs my senior year. (Yes, they recruited!)
February 18th, 2010 at 11:09 PM ^
soccer and baseball are both good to very good
basketball ranges from bad to good (teams in our league are very good)
cross country is the best "sport" at the school
February 18th, 2010 at 11:13 PM ^
I graduated from Mona Shores High School, in Muskegon. We pretty much suck at football and basketball. We are decent in boys and girls soccer, tennis, wrestling, and track. When I was there we had a really good track and cross country coach Tom Trout. We were top 10 in the state during his tenure as coach. After he left to be a principle in the Grandville district, both programs fell off the map a bit...Don't get me started on the guy that replaced him...
Shores is a golf, ice hockey, gymnastics, and choir powerhouse. We used to be a marching band powerhouse until the former director Jack Adams retired. Then the new guy let the program slide...and the school board decided a competitive program was not worth the money. Anyways, in my tenure at Shores, we won 3 state marching band titles, one state runner up to our rival Reeths Puffer, 3rd at nationals. My junior year our ice hockey team won a state title. Justin Abdelkader (C for the Wings) played on our varsity team. Justin was after my time at Shores. My family is friends with the Abdelkader family since my mom went to Muskegon high school with his uncle.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:39 PM ^
That's not a typo.
State champs in football Class A in '81. I don't think we have done anything of note in any sports since then.
Kevin Tapani was quarterback of that team. He went 1-1 as 2nd pitcher in the rotation (behind Jack Morris) for the Twins in the 1991 World Series.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:59 PM ^
I really thought this thread was going to die on the vine. I think it's really a reflection that it's not just a blog or a posting board we have here, but a MGoCommunity. And not just in the cutesy name sense.
I don't think Brian is going to worry about being embarrassed at the MGoTailgate at the Spring Game. Everyone may have to bring more beer though.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:04 AM ^
Dearborn Divine Child. Allegedly, the football team was absurd in the seventies, but ever since I've gone there, they've been pretty horrible in everything.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:20 AM ^
Gary Danielson, no?
February 19th, 2010 at 12:06 AM ^
I'm stunned I'm the first Warren De La Salle alumnus to post on here. I'm an 05 graduate, though I didn't head out to Ann Arbor afterwords like several of my friends. We're a soccer powerhouse, and have gotten to the state championship in football twice in the past four years, which is a big change from how awful our program was when I played on the Freshman squad.
February 19th, 2010 at 8:40 AM ^
If it makes you feel any better, my dad is a De La Salle alum....from way back when it was Detroit De La Salle, of course.
February 20th, 2010 at 6:11 PM ^
Alum, class of '02 myself.
IIRC soccer and baseball won state titles when I was there, but the football team was hot garbage. Hoops team was usually pretty good too.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:51 AM ^
I went to Fordson as well , played quarterback there some years ago, what year did you get out??
February 19th, 2010 at 9:02 AM ^
If you're younger than me, we at least know the same people. My brother was involved with the team, even after he came up to Michigan. Was tight was Coach S. If you played the same years or a little before that, I probably remember watching you play. From Junior High on I went to a lot of games, home and away. If you're MUCH older than that...you may have played with my Uncle. :P
I really didn't think I was going to find someone else on here...we didn't send that many to U-M (student or player). I can think of 3 or 4 from my graduating class. And a couple I knew the year before and after me. We're not a feeder school. ;-P
February 19th, 2010 at 1:44 AM ^
Decnet at football. Went to states back in 04. The quarterback was Easterns quarterback for the last couple years. The wrestling team usually makes it to states. Other than that not great at anything else.
February 20th, 2010 at 3:01 AM ^
Well St Johns is probably the closest place to the Burg on this list... you know Fish or Jakus? Big UofM fans out there...
February 19th, 2010 at 2:28 AM ^
The school has only existed since 1988, when two smaller high schools (Douglas MacArthur & Dwight Eisenhower) were combined into one (why they didn't name the new school after Patton or some other WWII general I'll never know). Ironically, both MacArthur and Eisenhower had very good football programs before the merger, but then Heritage football was atrocious. We were very good in swimming, soccer, tennis, and other whitey sports.
Probably the only recognizable athlete from Heritage is Stu Schweigart, who played QB in high school and was a pretty good safety for Purdue maybe 6-8 years ago. I think he might have played some pro ball but am not sure.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:26 AM ^
I wen to AH (c/o '97), and you are right, your football team sucked for the first ~15 years. Since then, it has ben decent though. As for our sports, we now suck at football but are decent and boys and girls basketball. Our famous alums include Terry Eurick (ND running bak in 70s), Jason Richardson (my wife went to school with him) Sam Sword (3rd? in tackles at UM)and a couple of other random college players. Our claim to fame is winning the 1973 football championship without allowing a poitn scored against.
February 19th, 2010 at 10:06 AM ^
Sam Sword was playing for AH the same time as I was in school. Did you know that he also played WR and kicked field goals in addition to kicking everybody's ass on defense? That AH team was loaded. They also had Marvin Wright (played QB for AH, then played DB at MSU) and Alfonso Boone (played running back for AH, went on to play defensive line in the NFL for a while). I think they won the state title one year and lost in the championship game the next. Their coach's last name was Eurick, but I think it may have been Jim Eurick (possibly Terry's brother?).
My dad always talks about that '73 AH team that went undefeated and unscored-upon. That is pretty awesome.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:30 AM ^
Everett High School in Lansing c/o '98. The football team sucked absolute donkey dong my entire time there. From freshman year to senior year, the team went an inspiring 0-36. When I was an underclassmen, our basketball team was pretty talented, but BC Central, Benton Harbor, and the various Detroit and Flint teams kept us from Class A glory until 2004. Coach Jones was the man. Won state titles with the boys and girls teams in the same year.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:44 AM ^
I can't believe I read through 6 pages of this thread and there are no other Lowell Red Arrows around here, that's sad...I graduated in '99 and we were pretty decent in football and wrestling at the time. We were absolutely terrible at basketball my four years of high school, just terrible. In the past 10 years we have won three football state championships, three wrestling state championships and a couple equestrian state championships(never been to an equestrian match but there is a sign when you enter town claiming the state championships so I guess it must be true).
February 19th, 2010 at 8:06 AM ^
Unbelievably dominant in swimming, decent wrestling and basketball, suck at every other sport.
February 20th, 2010 at 4:28 AM ^
You'd think I'd know this as I live in Toronto now, but do Canadian high schools play American or Canadian football rules?
February 20th, 2010 at 3:01 PM ^
Canadian, 3 downs and everything.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:36 AM ^
Sandwich Secondary in LaSalle! We kicked your ass in football every year :)
February 19th, 2010 at 8:39 AM ^
We were just good not great in Football/Basketball/Baseball. We had talent but no discipline. Yes we played Fordsen back then (Wolverine A conf.)
February 19th, 2010 at 9:05 AM ^
Ah, I remember many a game at Wayne Memorial. They weren't that bad. Kind of up and down. Now Westland John Glenn, we didn't really like...
February 19th, 2010 at 9:22 AM ^
Still have close friends who went to Glenn. They fell off the map after Gorden retired. Is Fordsen still good?
February 19th, 2010 at 9:29 AM ^
After suffering through a couple of down years, the last 3 years they've gone 8-3 (2nd round playoff loss), 12-1 (4th round playoff loss in the bitter cold to Lake Orion, who was really good), and 9-1 with a first round playoff upset by Cass Tech 23-24, with a ridiculous comeback by Tech after being up 23-2 at the half. One of those unbelievable haunt you games. It's also was out of character, because of the area the school is in, they usual get paired with the Detroit Schools and beat them, becoming the defacto "PSL Champ". We probably weren't getting past Southwestern the next round anyway, but that one stung.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:42 AM ^
just found this:
http://michigan-football.com/
high school records since 1950
February 19th, 2010 at 10:08 AM ^
Yeah, that's where I get all my historical records from.