Coach Phillips is married to his wife Christine and they have five children: Christopher, Courtney, Katie, Kerri, and Casey. Coach Phillips has coached at Marquette Senior High School for forty years, from 1977—2016. During his tenure at Marquette High, he coached girls’ track and field for twenty-four years and girls’ cross country for at least thirty-years; boys’ track and field for ten years and cross country for over twenty years, and he coached JV football for four years. He also coached girls’ track at Ishpeming Westwood High for four years, as well as, boys’ and girls’ cross country.

His girls’ cross country teams garnered thirty state championships and eight state runners up finishes for Marquette. His girls’ track teams won eight state championships and had six runner up finishes.  He assisted nine other state championships and 80 conference titles in cross country and track. Ten times he was name Upper Peninsula Cross Country Coaches Association Coach of the Year.

In 1982 he was named MITCA and MHSCA Cross Country Coach of the Year.  He was inducted into the MITCA Hall of Fame in 2009. He was inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall in 2009. He has been president of the Upper Peninsula Cross Country Coaches Association for 12 years.

Coach Tom Pullen from Ann Arbor, Michigan has been married to his wife Kathleen for forty-nine years, and they have two sons: Kyle and Drew and two grandchildren. Coache Pullen coaches the Ann Arbor Pioneer High School men’s and women’ tennis teams. He has three degrees from the University of Michigan; a bachelor’s degree, a doctor of dentistry degree, and an MS in restorative dentistry. He practiced dentistry for thirty-four years and has been retired for fourteen years and was a professor in the University of Michigan School of Dentistry for eleven years.

On the coaching side of his life, Coach Pullen has been coaching high school tennis for thirty-two years. He was an assistant coach for four years before taking the head coaching position at Pioneer High (which is also his alma mater) in 1991. In the same fall, he became the girls’ coach as well as being the boys’ coach. Counting both the programs, he has been the head coach for fifty-four seasons.

He has coached teams to fifteen state titles, ten boys’ and five girls’, fourteen second place finishes, three boys’ and eleven girls’, and thirty-six regional titles and eighteen second place finishes.  His dual record is 490 wins, 32 losses, and 11 ties.  He has coached an amazing 163 individual state champions and 219 all-state and all-state honorable mention players.  He has been state Coach of the Year three times, in 2000, 2004, and 2007. He was a national Coach of the Year finalist and was named the NHSACA Tennis Coach of the Year in 2007. The tennis courts at Pioneer High are named in his honor. He is in the MHSTeCA Hall of Fame.

Coach Boyd is married to his wife Betty, and they have two sons: Christopher and Michael. Leo Boyd has been coaching at Nouvel Catholic Central School in Saginaw, Michigan, for sixteen years, but he also spent twenty-eight years at SS Peter and Paul, where he graduated from high school, he spent one year at Standish High School and three years at Bay City Central. He has been a basketball, football, baseball, and Track and Field coach. He led his basketball teams to a 384 and 226 win/loss record with six regional titles, two state runner up finishes, and eight championships. He coached ten all-state players. As a football coach, Boyd had 38 all-state players and 5 all American players who helped him to a 309-112-4 win-loss-tie record. As a football coach he recorded 7 Area Championships, 12 league titles, 6 regional titles, and 2 state runner up finishes.  In track and field, he led teams to 24 invitational meet championships, 8 regional championships, 2 state runners-up finishes and one state title.  In the sport of football, he was honored five times a league coach of the year, eight times as regional coach of the year, he was a two-time state coach of the year, and he was also a nominee for national coach of the year.  Basketball saw him named regional coach of the year two-times, while in track and field he was named regional coach of the year twice and state coach of the year once.  Coach Boyd has been honored as a Hall of Fame inductee four times: Michigan High School Football Coaches Association, Michigan High School Basketball Coaches Association, Michigan High School Coaches Association, and the Saginaw County Catholic Central Hall of Fame.

We honor coach Boyd one more time with induction into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Coach Mox is married to her husband Conrad and they have two children: Kyle and Carolina. Coach Mox attended Edmore/Montebella High School in Edmore, Michigan, graduating in 1968. It was on then on to Central Michigan University. In high school, she played six-person basketball, and she watched the changed to five-person basketball while a player at Central Michigan. She began her coaching career in the tide of Title IX, and she feels fortunate to have been a part of the growth of sport for women.  She was a part of the first ever Michigan High School Girls’ Basketball tournament as a coach in 1973, and part of the first Michigan High School Volleyball tournament as a coach in 1977. Her first coaching position was offered to her in 1972, they added a junior varsity coach to their staff three years later, and she coached the elementary skills program for grades 3 through 6 for several years. She was the head basketball coach for thirty-one years. The volleyball program originated out of the physical education classes where they arranged a “Play Day” with other schools.  It took three years for volleyball to be recognized as a varsity sport. They had an active community of young women, and they helped the program gain momentum by coaching the girls beginning in fourth grade. Along with her coaching, coach Mox taught English from 1972 to 2006. Her basketball teams had a record of 453 wins and 239 losses in her 31 years. They were conference champions 5 times, district champs 9 times, and then went on to finish as the state runner up team two-times and gained one state title. Her volleyball team had a record of 411 wins, 133 losses during her ten years coaching that sport. They were conference champs ten times, district champs fourteen-times, regional champions seven-times, they were state runners-up one-time, and, they were state champions twice. She was media coach of the year many times, she has been a national finalist for coach of the year in volleyball and in basketball. She is in the Michigan High School Coaches Hall of Fame, and the Greater Lansing Area Hall of Fame as a part of a team and as a coach.

Today, she is our newest inductee into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame

"Coach Bennett began his coaching career in 1974 at Grosse Ile High School in Grosse Ile, Michigan, as an assistant boys’ golf coach and a teacher of Mathematics. He was the assis-tant coach until 1980 when he took over the reins as their head golf coach – a position he held until he retired in 2003. Twenty-four years as head coach and 30 total years as a golf coach, during those years as a head coach, his teams won 17 league championships, seven regional titles, and five state championships. They had a regional record of 375-74, win-loss. In 1997 he also began serving as an assistant coach for the girls’ golf program. That was a position that he held for eight years, and during that time the girls’ team won five state titles and finished a state runner up two times. I mentioned that he retired in 2003….but in 2007 he came out of retirement because the girls’ season in Michigan was changed to the fall…and the girls did not have a coach. For the next eight years he coached the girls to a 117-4, win-loss record and three more state titles and more state runner up finish to go with five more regional titles. He coached golf for a total of 38 years. He has served the Michigan golf coaches as the boys’ state finals manager since 2004. He has also served the National High School Coaches Association as the Golf Chair for six years. In addition he has spent 10 years on the Michi-gan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association Board, and he has been on their golf all-state selection committee since 1997. He has been name national golf Coach of the Year by the National High School Federation and by the National High School Athletic Coach-es Association. He was inducted into the Michigan Interscholastic Golf Association Hall of Fame in 2005 and was also inducted into the Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006. Tonight he will be inducted into the National High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame Class of 2016. Coach Bennett has been married to his wife Patti for 40 years, and they have one daughter – Dr. Elizabeth Bennett, PHD.

From the state of Michigan – Coach James Bennett."

"Coach Lasceski graduated from Central Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree that he earned, attending when he was able to, as he worked his way through. He began his coaching career in 1965 at Akron-Fairgrove where he taught and coached the Vikings until his retirement in 2006. Bet he then continued to coach two more years after he retired from the classroom. He taught business and coached boys’ track and field. He started their cross country program in 1970 and coached the boys’ team through 2007. He coached the girls’ program during the same time frame with the exception of years 1980-1988. His boys’ track and field teams earned 12 conference championships, six regional titles, 2 state run-ner up finishes and two state championship titles. He had 63 all-state, and 12 state individu-al champions. Twice he was named Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year. His boys’ cross country team had ten top 10 finishes, one state runner up finish, and they were state champions one time. He had 15 all-state runners and one state champion runner. His girls’ cross country team had seven top 10 finishes and one state champion team, there, too, he had one state champion runner and eight all-state runners. He was named section Coach of the Year four times, and he was named Coach of the Year one time. He has received the "Thumb of Michigan Sports Leader" award. He has been inducted into the Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame, and the track at Akron-Fairgrove High School has been named in his honor. He currently serves as treasurer of the Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association, has been a registered track and field and cross country official for over 40 years, and his enjoying retirement.

Coach Lasceski and his wife (of 53 years) Suzanne have two children: Daughter Nina who is a Sister in the Order of St. Benedict, and son Marc. Marc and his wife Natalie have given Coach Jerry and his wife three grand children.

From the state of Michigan, Coach Jerry Lasceski."

Michigan Coaches:  Ron Schultheiss, Charlotte, and  John Knuth, Marysville, Inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Class of 2015
-June  2015

John Knuth from Marysville and Ron Schultheiss from Charlotte were selected by the MHSCA Board of Directors to be inducted into the NHSACA Hall of Fame at the Annual Meeting in Rochester, MN.  The actual induction will happen at a banquet on Friday, June 19, 2015.  John was a long time and very successful volleyball coach at Marysville, along with some other sports.  He was later the athletic director at Croswell-Lexington HS for several years.   Ron was a long time cross country, wrestling and track coach at Charlotte HS as well as serving as their AD for many years.  Additionally he was very active in his coaching associations both locally and statewide.  Both of the above coaches also were very active within their communities.  Congratulations to both of these outstanding coaches.

Michigan Coaches:  Evonne Picard and  Marty Crane Inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Class of 2014
-June  2014

The NHSACA Hall of Fame honored Robert Bridges-Dearborn HS and John Shade-Grosse Ile HS for 2012 and Sue Barthold-E.Kentwood HS and Mike Torrey-Zeeland Public Schools (two different high schools) for 2013.