Track & Field

Payton Haynes, selected by the MCSHOF Board of Directors as the 2025 Female Senior Athlete of the Year, has excelled in both track & field as a pole vaulter and hurdler and in equestrian at Mason County Eastern. She is the daughter of Curtis Haynes and Myrtie Bullard. Haynes became a repeat MHSAA Division IV State Champion this spring in the pole vault, having won the event in 2024 and was Ru ...Read More...

Alex Tyndall, selected the 2025 Male Senior High School Athlete of the Year by the MCSHOF Board of Directors, excelled in cross country and track & field, earning Michigan High School Athletic Association All-State honors in both sports in 2024 and 2025. Tyndall was the MCDCCA Small School State Champion in cross country in 2025 and set the Mason County Eastern cross-country school record in ...Read More...

Harry Plouff has been running for over 30 years and has logged over 100,000 miles, running in 57 marathons on seven continents. Plouff initially attended Mason County Central where he played football for coach Loren Dietrich and he ran track prior to attending Ludington High School where he ran track and graduated in 1966. Some of the interesting locations Plouff has run are Dublin, Ireland; ...Read More...

Bruce Krieger coached track & field, cross country, basketball and football at Mason County Central, becoming the 1986 Michigan Track & Field Coach of the Year in Class C and the 1986 National Track & Field Coach of the Year-Bronze Award recipient. Krieger coached the 1985 boys Track & Field MHSAA State Runner-up team and the 1986 State Champion team. His teams were conference c ...Read More...

Reaghan Brooks is honored as one of the 2024 Mason County Sports Hall of Fame Life Lesson Award recipients from Mason County Central High School. Reaghan has been an extremely valuable part of multiple athletic programs during her four years at MCC. She was the manager for the cross country and girls’ basketball programs while also competing as a four-year member of the track team in the sho ...Read More...

Mason County Central 2024 Life Lesson Award – Reaghan Brooks Reaghan Brooks is honored as one of the 2024 Mason County Sports Hall of Fame Life Lesson Award recipients from Mason County Central High School. Reaghan has been an extremely valuable part of multiple athletic programs during her four years at MCC. She was the manager for the cross country and girls’ basketball programs while also ...Read More...

2024 Life Lesson Award Recipients from Mason County Eastern High School Olivia Wing, daughter of Diane and Daniel Wing, is one of the individuals selected for the 2024 Mason County Sports Hall of Fame Life Lessons Award and has selected Friends of Ludington State Park to receive the donation given in her honor. Olivia participated in cross country, basketball, and track and was selected all-co ...Read More...

2024 Life Lesson Award Recipient – Mason County Eastern Clayton Shoup, son of Robert and Amanda Shoup, is one of the Life Lesson Award honorees from Mason County Eastern High School and has selected St. Mary’s Caritas Food Pantry for a donation given in his honor. Clay played basketball and baseball and ran cross country and track at MCE. He maintained a 4.0 gpa while earning 15 varsity le ...Read More...

Clay earned 15 varsity letters in basketball, earning All-State honors two years, while serving as team captain and breaking school records for most points in a single game with 55 and most 3-point shots in a single game with 10. A four-year, All-West Michigan D League basketball player, Clay earned All-Area honors, was Academic All-State two, Senior Male Athlete, and received the Joie Giammalva C ...Read More...

Theresa (Knizacky) Shoop is a 1985 Free Soil graduate who excelled in volleyball, basketball and track and field. Shoop led the Pirates to a final four trip in volleyball her senior year and was second team all-state, scored 1,326 career points in basketball, fifth in the county, selected honorable mention all-state, and placed fourth in the shot put at the state track meet her senior year. Sho ...Read More...