Wayland High School boys’ cross-country coach Raymond Antel III has received the Kermit Ambrose Award by the Michigan Track Coach Association.
Antel, who also serves as girls’ track coach at WHS, also is one of the three newest cross-country coach inductees to the Hall of Fame. He also coached track and cross country at Kelloggsville and East Kentwood.
The Ambrose Award is named after one of the founding fathers of MITCA and is regarded as the highest honor that can be given at the cross-country clinic.
Antel was president of MITCA in 2009 and served as cross-country chair, as an All-State Award representative, the State Rules and Regulations Council and on the Regional Site Selection Committee.
His cross-country teams have won 12 conference championships, seven regional titles and he coached Kelloggsville to a state championship in 2000. His biggest individual star was three-time state champion Nicole Bush, who was NCAA steeplechase champion and a qualifier for the U.S. Olympic team trials.
Antel and his wife, Jennifer, live in Wayland and have five children, all Wayland High School graduates or students.
