Captain Salata leads Whitmore Lake (AnnArbor.com)

May 22, 2012

Emma Salata twice has been named all-league and her golf team's Most Valuable Player, and holds the school's 9 and 18-hole records. And she's done all of that playing each spring for the boys team at Whitmore Lake, which does not have a girls golf team.

AnnArbor.com's Matt Durr tells how Salata got started playing the game with her grandparents, and then became a star of the spring after playing her first season of high school golf during the fall with the Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard girls. Salata has signed to play next season for the Western Michigan University women's team. 

Whitmore Lake girls golfer earns college scholarship by playing with the boys (AnnArbor.com)

Today in the MHSAA: 4/9/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 9, 2026

1. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 9 Bay City Western swept Division 4 No. 2 Beal City – Bay City Times

2. SOFTBALL Sophomore Phoebe Maximiuk starred in Romeo’s 7-2 win over Division 1 honorable mention Lake Orion – Macomb Daily

3. SOFTBALL Utica earned a memorable 10-5 victory over Macomb Dakota – Macomb Daily

4. BOYS LACROSSE Traverse City West extended a one-goal halftime lead for a 12-10 win over Traverse City Central

5. TRACK & FIELD The Ida boys got big contributions from swim standouts in a 73-64 win over Petersburg Summerfield – Monroe News

6. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 14 Midland Dow improved to 6-0 with a sweep of Frankenmuth – Midland Daily News

7. BOYS VOLLEYBALL Midland Dow, Midland High and Bay City Western played their first matches in program history – Saginaw News

8. TRACK & FIELD Cadillac swept girls and boys quad meets against Big Rapids, Kingsley and Indian River Inland Lakes – Cadillac News

9. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 8 Williamston’s hitters found their strides in a sweep of DeWitt – WLNS

10. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 2 Hartland’s Michael Bernardi threw five no-hit innings in a 7-2 win over Salem – Livington Daily Press & Argus