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: 1/16/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

January 16, 2026

1. GIRLS BASKETBALL Petersburg Summerfield’s Jaeli Jones went over 1,000 career points in her  team’s win over Britton Deerfield – Monroe News

2. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Zeeland – No. 6 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – edged LPD3 No. 2 Holland Christian 96-83 – Holland Sentinel

3. GIRLS BASKETBALL Pewamo-Westphalia handed Bath its first defeat, 64-41 – WILX

4. GIRLS BASKETBALL Rilynn Porter made all three free throws during a last-second trip to the line to give Hart a 41-39 win over North Muskegon – Local Sports Journal

5. BOYS BASKETBALL Riverview Gabriel Richard earned its first win in handing Allen Park Cabrini its first loss, 44-37 – Southgate News-Herald

6. GIRLS BASKETBALL Kingsford downed Menominee 53-41 in a matchup of contenders in the Great Northern Conference – My UP Now

7. ICE HOCKEY Eight players scored in Division 1 No. 2 Detroit Catholic Central’s win over Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice – Oakland Press

8. GIRLS BASKETBALL Almont earned its first Blue Water Athletic Conference win since 2023-24, 43-32 over Richmond – Macomb Daily

9. GIRLS BASKETBALL Sault Ste. Marie crossed the bridge to claim a 53-46 win over Traverse City Central – Up North Live

10. GIRLS BASKETBALL Birmingham Groves continued its high-scoring success during a win over Royal Oak – Hometown Life