“We won’t be losing anybody, so I really hope we will,” said junior Sadah Sheidt, who won the slalom crown for the second straight season. “We didn’t know if we were going to win this year or last year. (When they announce it), your heart jumps out of your chest.”

Marquette won the championship with a roster devoid of a single senior.

“They’ll be back next year, looking to repeat for sure,” first-year coach Dan Menze said.

The Redettes have two juniors, and the rest of the squad is freshmen and sophomores.

Menze said there was some pressure to keep the Marquette boys championship streak going – which he did – but the stress was just as heavy on the girls side, if not more.

“There was definitely more pressure on the girls team,” Menze said. “We weren’t quite as deep. They really came out and skied awesome. We had some bobbles, but most teams did today. We just had less.”

The entire story is posted at MHSAA.com.

D1 BOYS STATE FINAL: MARQUETTE 35, TRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL 88
By James Cook, MHSAA

HARBOR SPRINGS---Bradley Seaborg doesn’t think this is the end of the road for Marquette’s boys skiing championships.
 

The Redmen graduate four seniors from a team that won Monday’s Division 1 title for the fifth straight year, more than doubling runner-up Traverse City Central.
 

“I don’t think this is the end at all,” Seaborg said. “We’ve still got Andrew Thomas, who is a very good junior. We’re losing four good guys, but we’re picking up a couple good freshmen next year.”
 

Seaborg is one of those seniors, but he went out by taking the individual slalom championship He and the rest of the team also went out a different way: in shorts.

The entire Redmen team showed up to the awards ceremony – which was held outdoors at Nub’s Nob in Harbor Springs – in khaki shorts, much to the amusement of the crowd gathered.
 

“We were all like, ‘What should we wear for awards?’ and we were thinking khakis,” Seaborg said. “Then it was going to be pretty hot, so why not khaki shorts?”
 

First-year coach Dan Menze didn’t wear shorts, but wasn’t about to stop his boys from doing what they wanted after winning a school-record fifth straight title.
 

“You have to be professional throughout the day,” Menze said. “But at the end of the day, if you want to have a little fun and celebrate winning five championships in a row, I feel like they deserve to celebrate.”
 

The Redmen won four straight from 2000-03, a mark now eclipsed by this group’s streak of five.
 

“For us to break that and get our fifth is pretty sweet,” said Seaborg, who was involved in three of those titles.

The entire story is posted at MHSAA.com.

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