Category: Swim & Dive
COLLEGE NATIONAL LETTER-OF-INTENT 2020-2021
COLLEGE NATIONAL LETTER-OF-INTENT 2020-2021 Athletes that have signed or committed to play collegiate athletics in any sport from high schools located in the coverage area for www.northoaklandsports.com. Email senior editor Dan Stickradt at dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com or to results@northoaklandsports.com CLASS OF 2021 AUBURN HILLS AVONDALE AUBURN HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY AUBURN HILLS OAKLAND CHRISTIAN CLARKSTON CLARKSTON SPRINGFIELD CHRISTIAN […]
Oakland County High Schools
OAKLAND COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS Oakland County High Schools With Athletics Programs: Auburn Hills Avondale Yellowjackets Auburn Hills Christian Academy […]
GIRLS SWIM AND DIVE: Oakland County Championships Results 2020
45TH ANNUAL OAKLAND COUNTY GIRLS SWIM & DIVE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Oct. 8-9 at eight locations) TEAM SCORES — 1. Farmington Hills Mercy, 285; 2. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood, 266; 3. Birmingham Seaholm, 210; 4. Novi, 193; 5. Birmingham Marian, 173; 6. Rochester Adams, 145; 7. Farmington, 144; 8. Lake Orion, 129; 9. Birmingham Groves, 109; 10. Milford, […]
GIRLS SWIM & DIVE: Mercy wins 16th straight Oakland County crown
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Dominant. In the eight sports that there is an official Oakland County Championships tournament, no school has a stranglehold in its respective sport than Farmington Hills Mercy does with girls swim and dive. The Marlins captured their unprecedented 16th straight Oakland County title Saturday […]
COLLEGE RECRUITING: College Signings List 2017
Below is a list of athletes from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area who have signed or committed to play collegiate sports. Additions to this list can be made by emailing dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com or results@northoaklandsports.com CLASS OF 2017 ABURUN HILLS AVONDALE Irvin Castro Soccer Lawrence Tech University Kassidy Embrey Soccer Northwood Griffin Kubert Soccer Northwood Katelyn Mather Soccer […]
The New Face of Addiction: F.A.N. Unleashes Attack To Run Drugs Out Of Town
. . . . BY DAN STICKRADT GREENINGDETROIT.COM dan@greeningdetroit.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans — Courtesy Story from www.greeningdetroit.com FRASER, Mich. — Mark Rudolph remembers the day he received the call. It was a moment that parents — all parents — fear will never come. Rudolph’s son, Ryan, had died of a drug overdose. Heroin was the deadly […]
GIRLS SWIMMING: Lake Orion aiming again for top-10 waters
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — The sign of a quality program is not always a one-year wonder highlight, but consistency over many seasons. That is exactly where Lake Orion’s girls swimming and diving program stands today after veteran coach Darin Abbasse first helped launch the program back in 1998. […]
BOYS SWIMMING: 2016 Oakland County Boys Swimming & Diving Championships Results
2016 OAKLAND COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP (Feb. 6 at Lake Orion H.S.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Birmingham Brother Rice, 369; 2. Novi, 228; 3. Birmingham Seaholm, 212; 4. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood, 211.5; 5. Novi Detroit Catholic Central, 200; 6. Rochester Adams, 176; 7. Birmingham Groves, 159; 8. South Lyon Unified, 119.5; 9. Bloomfield Hills, 84; 10. Walled […]
GIRLS SWIMMING: Mercy again dominant in winning 11th straight Oakland County title
Marian, Rochester Adams follow in loaded field BY DAN STICKRADT CORRESPONDENT dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Dominating. Farmington Hills Mercy has redefined the term inside the Oakland County Girls Swimming and Diving circles. The Marlins, ranked third in the state in Division 1, captured their unprecedented 11th straight Oakland County Championships title Saturday at […]
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL SPORTS BAR?: Pre-game, during-game and post-game …
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL SPORTS BAR? Pre-game, during-game and post-game for coaches, athletes, parents and sports fans from around the area … where do you like to congregate. [polldaddy poll=6414054]
GIRLS SWIMMING: Rochester Adams clinches OAA Red Division title
Highlanders win state’s top league for first time in decade; Seaholm, Lake Orion follow in star-studded field BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR Dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION –– Competing in the ever-tough OAA Red Division, all of the stars must align just perfectly in order to claim a conference championship. Those stars made a […]
COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Oakland University names Jeffrey Konya as new AD
ROCHESTER HILLS — Oakland University interim President Betty J. Youngblood is pleased to announce that Jeffrey F. Konya has been appointed director of athletics effective August 11, 2014. Konya is currently the athletics director of the California State University Bakersfield (CSUB) athletics department, where he has worked since 2010. Konya replaces Robby Stewart, who […]
ALL-NORTH OAKLAND AREA BOYS SWIMMING: These tankers left quite a wake
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR Dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans Here’s a statistic for you. Boys swimming and diving is one of the only sports where schools from the coverage area of www.northoaklandsports.com have never won a team state championship. What does that mean? Well, it certainly doesn’t mean that there isn’t any talent coming […]
Tribute to our moms: The real MVPs of our lives
It was kind of fitting that when Kevin Durant was named the National Basketball Association MVP for 2013-14 this past week, he spent plenty of time on record thanking his mom, Wanda Pratt, for helping, teaching and guiding him to where his is today. The Oklahoma City Thunder star wasn’t glorifying himself and putting his […]
BOYS SWIMMING: 2014 MISCA All-State Dream Team
2014 MISCA BOYS SWIMMING AND DIVING ALL-STATE DREAM TEAM Below is the MISCA 2014 Boys Swimming and Diving All-State Dream Team: 200-YARD MEDLEY RELAY: Birmingham Brother Rice (Mark Blinstrub, Drew Grady, Gust Kouvaris, Bradford Jones) 1:32.77. 200-YARD FREESTYLE: Thomas Rathbun (Holland) 1:38.74. 200-YARD IM: Jack Walsh (Novi Detroit Catholic Central) 1:48.54. 50-YARD FREESTYLE: Joe Krause […]
BOYS SWIMMING: 2014 All-Flint Metro League Boys Swimming and Diving Team
2014 ALL-FLINT METRO LEAGUE BOYS SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM FIRST TEAM 200 Medley Relay: Fenton (Austin Landis, jr., Zahne Macklin, sr., Zac Miceli, soph., Landon Mikulenas, sr). 200 Yard Freestyle: Mike Banner,Fenton sr. 200 Yard IM: Zac Miceli, Fenton soph. 50 Yard Freestyle: Brant Cassidy, Fenton sr. Diving: Jackson Maxwell, Swartz Creek sr. 100 […]
BOYS SWIMMING: State Rankings Feb. 17
Boys Swimming (By the coaches association) Division 1 — 1. Birmingham Brother Rice; 2. Ann Arbor Pioneer; 3. Livonia Stevenson; 4. Rockford; 5. Holland West Ottawa; 6. Zeeland Unified; 7 . Novi Detroit Catholic Central; 8. Bloomfield Hills; 9. Saline; 10. Ann Arbor Huron. Honorable Mention — Northville, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern, Byron Center, Lake Orion, Hartland, Troy, […]
BOYS SWIMMING: Brother Rice makes statement in winning Oakland County title
STATS: http://northoaklandsports.com/2014/02/04/boys-swimming-oakland-county-championships-results-2/ BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR Dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans WATERFORD — Mike Venos faces some problems that most coaches would love to have every time there is a competition. First, the veteran boys swimming coach from Birmingham Brother Rice has to sample star senior Joe Krause through various events to see where he […]
