The Cassopolis Michigan Newspaper

Friday June 9 2000, page 12

Track team wins, coach loses hair


By Kate Zavala

The Three Rivers Men' s Track Team took the Division II State Championship at the Michigan Track Coaches Association Meet held Saturday, May 27, at Corunna High School.

This is the, third year of the MITCA Meet but the first year Three Rivers has ever qualified. The meet consisted of ten Class B schools that took first place at their regional meet. Each team is only allowed to put their top three athletes in each event.

The top finishers for the day were sophomore Kyle Shaw, who finished third in the 110 HH and fourth in the 300 IH; sopho-more Kenny Williams, who took eighth in the 100 and ninth in the 200; senior Brian Wetherbee placed second in the discus and seventh in shot put; sophomore Casy Hoffman finished seventh in pole vault; sophomore Ronnie Thurman placed fifth in the long jump and eighth in the 400; senior Jason Karbowski took fourth in the 400; sophomore Calvin Hilson came in ninth in the 100; senior Bill Kannenhurg placed third in the 800 and the 3200.

There relay team of senior Jimmy Cezar, Williams, Hilson and Hope won the 400 and took second in the 800; the 3200 relay team of sophomore Brandon Robison, freshman Alex Schmidtendorff, senior Kevin Drake and Kannenherg placed third; Thurmand, Cezar, Hilson and Kar-bowski came in second in the

"This was my most memorable and pleasant year," said Coach Scott Shaw.
Coach Shaw gets his head shaved
  Coach Shaw makes good on his promise to shave his head after his mens track team won state
The track team was honored at an all-school assembly' last Thursday, Coach Shaw was forced to make good on an earlier promise he had made to the team that. he would shave his head if his team won the rest of their games. His team came to the assembly with clippers and shaved Shaw's head themselves.

The MHSAA State Meet took place Saturday, June 3, at Grandville High School. Three men's relay teams and one women's relay team competed along with Shemika Stan-ford in the long jump for the Wildcats.

Hilson Hope, Cezar and William ran the 800 and 400 relay. Hilson, Cezar, Thurman and jun-ior Mark Heustis made up the 1600 relay.
The 800-relay team of Stanford, freshman Emily Kannenberg, freshman Dominique Smith and sophomore Becca Cline took eighth place to receive a medal.