MCSHOF Inductee

Lyford Young played basketball and ran track at Free Soil high school, graduating with the Class of 1955. Lyford was a first team All-WMD Conference selection in 1953, 1954 and 1955. His team won the District Championship in 1954 and 1955. In the 1954-55 season, Young scored 420 points, averaging 19.1 points per game. Young went on to score 975 points in his high school career. In both 1954 and 19 ...Read More...

Bob Cameron, of Scottville, graduated in 1979 from Mason County Central. His senior year he was undefeated at 167 pounds and went on to claim the state championship in wrestling as he assisted his team in claiming the state runner-up title that year. Cameron went to Western Michigan University intending to wrestle, but WMU dropped their wrestling program. Bob also participated in track and cross c ...Read More...

Professional minor league baseball had its birth in Ludington in 1912 but after three seasons, the organization like many minor leagues throughout the country, disbanded, a casualty of the World War I. Professional baseball received new life in Ludington in 1920 and at a higher level as the Mariners played in the Central League with opposing teams based in Grand Rapids, Muskegon and Kalamazoo thro ...Read More...

Robert “Bob” Ayers Robert "Bob" Ayers, a 1944 Ludington High School graduate, was a state runner-up in high hurdles and fifth in low hurdles his senior year. He also played football and basketball and became an accomplished bowler in Mason County. He helped organize fastpitch softball as the president of the Mason County Softball Association and was an outstanding fastpitch softball pitcher ...Read More...

Kelly Smith Kelly Smith, a Ludington native, competed professionally in motocross. He is a three-time East Coast four-stroke national champion, a two-time U.S. Open of Supercross Champion, the first ever Motocross Outdoor National winner on a KTM motorcycle and an 11-time national Arenacross winner. Smith recently switched to watercross, racing on jet skis and watercrafts and is a two-time wor ...Read More...

Dr. Annie (Tewel) Sadosty  Annie (Tewel) Sadosty, a 1987 Ludington High School graduate, earned all-conference, all-area, and all-state honors in basketball and all-conference, all-regional, and all-state honors in track. She was only the second female to score 1,000 career points in basketball at LHS and was a state runner-up in the 3200-meter run in track. Annie played two seasons of basketb ...Read More...

Dave Killips Dave Killips won 100-plus tennis matches at Ludington High School on his way to conference, regional, and state tournament qualification. Dave played in both singles and doubles play and was 29-2 at No. 1 singles his senior year. Killips went on to set a record for victories as a freshman at Central Michigan University and was his flight’s champion in the Mid-American Conference ...Read More...

Adam Johnson earned first-team All-State honors twice while playing soccer at Ludington High School, was a member of the 1994 state runner-up team, and was the first Mason County soccer player to actively play at a Division I college. After his career at Western Michigan University, Adam played for Thames Valley University in London and started on the North London Cup championship team. Johnson pl ...Read More...

2007 MCC Volleyball Mason County Central’s volleyball team concluded their 2007 season as MHSAA Class B state runners-up with a 52-9-3 record. The Spartans beat Belding for the school's first ever volleyball regional title, swept Cadillac in the quarterfinals, and rallied for a victory over Carleton Airport in the semi-finals to face nationally-ranked Grand Rapids South Christian in the state ...Read More...

Steve Schoenherr Steve Schoenherr is a 1958 graduate of Ludington where he earned all-conference honors twice, scored 705 total points. He set a single high game point total of 42 for a team and league record. He was a winning middle distance runner at LHS. He was named first team All-State by both the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press in 1958 in basketball. He went on to the University of Mi ...Read More...