Mona Shores HS fall sports updates
MUSKEGON, Mich. — The 2022 fall athletic season at Mona Shores High School was yet another successful one for the Sailors. Girls golf, boys soccer, and football all won OK Green Conference championships while volleyball and boys tennis both won Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championships.聽 Volleyball, football, and soccer all had exciting playoff runs with each team appearing in the MHSAA District finals.
Check out more highlights below:
- While Academic All-State honors for most sports won鈥檛 be announced until later in the winter, we do know that the volleyball team continued their decades-long streak obtaining this honor.聽 Seniors Chloe Rose, Ava Dunn, Ali Trautner, and Lauren Morea also received academic all-state as individuals from the Michigan Volleyball Coaches Association.
- The 60th year of football was another successful one as the boys earned Coach Koziak鈥檚 100th win as a Sailor, enjoyed their 6th consecutive season opening the MHSAA playoffs with a win, bringing our overall football playoff record to an impressive 22-7.
- The girls swim team had a conference champion in senior Delaney Buckner, who won both the 100 fly and the 100 backstroke.
- Senior Robyn Hunt capped a tremendous four-year run of simultaneously competing in cross country and swim every fall.聽 Incredibly, she received all-conference honors for both sports this season.聽 Robyn will take her talents to Duquesne University, where she will compete in intercollegiate triathlons.
- For the first time since 2016, the Mona Shores cross country program qualified individuals for the MHSAA state finals.聽 Senior Caleb Branch and freshman Ellery Horness both finished in the top 100 in Division 1 at the Michigan International Speedway on November 5th.
The big highlight of the fall, though, has to be the boys tennis team, who qualified as a team for the state championships for the first time since the 2000-2001 school year.聽 Coach Traci Hackney was named Regional Coach of the Year while her son, junior Drew Hackney, finished as a state quarterfinalist in the #1 singles division.聽 This is the third year in a row that Drew has been named first-team all-state by the Michigan Tennis Coaches Association, bringing his overall career record to 74-10.聽 Probably the most exciting match of the state championship weekend for Mona Shores, though, was the first-round #1 doubles match with senior Tommy Stewart and junior Liam Gossett.聽 The Sailor duo beat the team from North Farmington in a back-and-forth affair that lasted roughly two hours.聽 It was a proud moment for the boys as they played in front of at least a couple dozen Mona Shores teammates, parents, and fans in the indoor courts at the Greater Midland Tennis Center.聽 It was a wonderful weekend of competition and camaraderie for the whole team.
Go Shores!
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