Performance of the Week: Pontiac Notre Dame Prep's Maren Studt
February 28, 2025
Maren Studt ♦ Pontiac Notre Dame Prep
Junior ♦ Skiing
After missing last season's MHSAA Finals with a broken collarbone, Studt stormed back in the best way imaginable this winter. She swept individual titles at Monday's Division 2 championship meet at Boyne Highlands, claiming the slalom with a two-run time of 1:16.10 and the giant slalom in 1:06.79. In doing so, she became Notre Dame Prep's first to sweep Finals races and the school's second champion, joining 2021 and 2022 slalom title winner Sydney Schulte.
Studt entered the Finals coming off a GS championship and runner-up finish in slalom at her Regional at Alpine Valley in White Lake. Although she competed this time as an individual qualifier, she also has a team championship to her credit, as she finished 13th in GS as a freshman to help the Fighting Irish to the 2023 Division 2 title. Studt also plays on Notre Dame Prep's girls golf team and was its second-lowest scorer during last season's Lower Peninsula Division 3 Regional.
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Previous 2024-25 honorees
Feb. 21: Olive Krueger, Marquette swimming - Report
Feb. 14: Hunter Lemmon, Fraser swimming - Report
Feb. 7: Aubrey Hillard, Rochester competitive cheer - Report
Jan. 31: Wyatt Spalo, Reed City wrestling - Report
Jan. 24: Olivia Flynn, Harbor Springs basketball - Report
Jan. 17: Levi Rozema, Holland Christian swimming - Report
Jan. 10: McRecco McFadden, Burton Bentley basketball - Report
Dec. 18: Nash Leonard, Bay City Western hockey - Report
Dec. 11: Blake Cosby, Dundee wrestling - Report
Dec. 4: Keaton Hendricks, Zeeland West football - Report
Nov. 29: Kate Simon, East Grand Rapids swimming - Report
Nov. 22: Ella Kokaly, Essexville Garber volleyball - Report
Nov. 15: Caroline Bryan, Grosse Pointe South swimming - Report
Nov. 8: Kaylie Livingston, Whitmore Lake cross country - Report
Oct. 25: Oliver Caldwell, Grand Rapids West Catholic tennis - Report
Oct. 18: Alex Graham, Detroit Cass Tech football - Report
Oct. 11: Victoria Garces, Midland Dow cross country - Report
Oct. 4: Asher Clark, Bay City John Glenn soccer - Report
Sept. 26: Campbell Flynn, Farmington Hills Mercy volleyball - Report
Sept. 19: TJ Hansen, Freeland cross country - Report
Sept. 12: Jordan Peters, Grayling soccer - Report
Sept. 6: Gabe Litzner, Sault Ste. Marie cross country - Report
Aug. 30: Grace Slocum, Traverse City St. Francis golf - Report
PHOTO Notre Dame Prep's Maren Studt races the slalom course during Monday's Division 2 Finals at Boyne Highlands. (Photo by Sarah Shepherd.)
Performance of the Week: Grand Haven's Seth Norder
October 13, 2023
Seth Norder ♦ Grand Haven
Senior ♦ Cross Country
Norder has run among the state’s elite over the last three seasons, finishing as the runner-up at the Lower Peninsula Division 1 Final the last two years – and last fall by only 1.63 seconds. He likely became the runner to chase at Michigan International Speedway next month by winning Saturday’s Division 1 race at the prestigious Portage Invitational with a time of 14:57.3, which was more than nine seconds faster than the rest of the star-studded field.
That field included the reigning LPD2 champion, Chelsea’s Connell Alford (who finished third), the only other Michigan racer to clear 15 minutes this season in Freeland’s TJ Hansen (who placed fourth), and the reigning Ohio Division 1 runner-up in Samuel Ricchiuti of Dublin Jerome, who was second at Portage. Grand Haven as a team finished second to only top-ranked Brighton after entering the race ranked No. 3 in LPD1. Norder, who will continue his running career next year at Michigan State, also is the reigning LPD1 Finals track champion in the 3,200 meters, and he’s broken nine minutes in that race with a personal best of 8:46.33.
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Past 2023-24 Honorees
Oct. 5: Paige Anderson, Muskegon Reeths-Puffer golf - Report
Sept. 29: MacKenzie Bisballe, Lake City volleyball - Report
Sept. 22: Jhace Massey, Gladwin football - Report
Sept. 15: Kaylee Draper, Sturgis swimming - Report
Sept. 8: Owen Jackson, Traverse City St. Francis tennis - Report
Sept. 1: Rachel Forsyth, Ann Arbor Pioneer cross country - Report
(Photos courtesy of the Grand Haven athletic department.)