EDITOR’s NOTE: This article originally was published in error, inadvertently leaving out volleyball standout Lauren Navis. The following is the corrected version of the story:
Three individual athletes and one team will be honored by induction into the Hopkins High School Athletic Hall of Fame Friday evening, Jan. 13.
The annual ceremony will take place between the girls’ and boys’ O-K Silver Conference basketball game between the host Vikings and NorthPointe Christian.
The honorees are the 1975 Lady Vikings basketball team, Lauren Navis, Bruce Michael Wilson and Bill Griffey.
The 1975 girls’ team, coached by Ellen PenHorwood, won the right to compete in the first of many state tournament championship games in November 1975. They won district and regional titles and finally wound up in the finals, but lost the Class C championship game to Gladwin. Two of the team members were Karen Caywood, who went on to star in collegiate softball, and Sue Maher, who became superintendent of schools at Plainwell before retiring.
Wilson was an all-area, all-conference baseball, football and basketball player who was awarded a three-sport scholarship by Kalamazoo Valley Community College. He played baseball and rugby at Central Michigan University, played semi-pro baseball for Gainey and took part in a tryout with the Cincinnati Reds.
Griffey has been holder of the school record in the shot put and discus, was O-K Silver Conference champion in both field events and made all-conference, all-county and all-area in football as a Viking gridder.
Navis was a state-wide Miss Volleyball finalist in 2003, was all-county and all-conference three times, twice all-region and twice all-state.
She also was on the O-K Silver Conference first unit twice in basketball, as well as all-county two times.
