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: 8/18/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

August 18, 2025

1. BOYS SOCCER Royal Oak Shrine Catholic finished 3-0 at the Oakland Christian Lancer
Invitational with wins over Oakland Christian, Genesee Christian and Saginaw Valley Lutheran – Oakland Press

2. GIRLS GOLF Coopersville carded a 369 to win the Fruitport Invitational – Grand Haven Tribune

3. BOYS SOCCER Kingsford opened with wins over Grayling and the host Blue Devils at the Sault Ste. Marie Invitational – Iron Mountain Daily News

4. BOYS SOCCER Niles ran its championship streak at Buchanan’s Vandenberg Invitational to three with wins over Buchanan and Brandywine – Niles Daily Star

5. CROSS COUNTRY Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker, Kingston and Saginaw Valley Lutheran had individual winners at the Hemlock Classic – Huron Daily Tribune | Athletic.net

6. BOYS TENNIS Fowlerville edged Milan to win its Fowlerville Invitational – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

7. BOYS SOCCER McBain Northern Michigan Christian defeated Shepherd and Buckley to win its Comet Cup – Cadillac News

8. BOYS SOCCER Maple City Glen Lake defeated Brooklyn Columbia Central and tied Hart at the latter’s invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. BOYS TENNIS Holland won its season-opening invitational – MuskegonSports.com

10. BOYS SOCCER Fowlerville opened with a notable 4-2 win over Pinckney – Livingston Daily Press & Argus