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: 10/2/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 2, 2025

1. GIRLS TENNIS Negaunee in Division 1 and West Iron County in Division 2 won Upper Peninsula Finals championships – MHSAA.com

2. BOYS SOCCER Division 4 top-ranked Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett won the Catholic High School League Cardinal title with a 4-2 clincher over No. 5 Royal Oak Shrine Catholic – Oakland Press

3. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 3 Detroit Catholic Central clinched the CHSL Bishop championship with a 4-0 win over Division 2 No. 4 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – Oakland Press

4. GIRLS GOLF Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central – No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – won the Monroe County Championship by 18 strokes – Monroe News

5. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 honorable mention Dearborn Edsel Ford ran its Downriver League title streak to four with a clinching 6-2 win over Brownstown Woodhaven – Southgate News-Herald

6. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 honorable mention Livonia Stevenson downed Northville in a shootout to win the Kensington Lakes Activities Association Tournament – Hometown Life

7. VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 6 Fowler lost the first set but won the next three over Division 3 No. 5 Pewamo-Westphalia – Lansing State Journal

8. VOLLEYBALL Saginaw Swan Valley shook up the Tri-Valley Conference Red standings with a sweep of Division 2 No. 10 Frankenmuth – Saginaw News

9. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 honorable mention Brooklyn Columbia Central finished a perfect run through the Cascades Conference with a win over Leslie – Jackson Citizen Patriot

10. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD3 No. 9 Traverse City St. Francis and Bellaire girls and LPD1 honorable mention Traverse City Central and East Jordan boys won at the Mancelona Invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle