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Panther Pride
Posted: 05.07.2010 at 12:21 AM
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FRANKFORT, MI --  

FOR FRANKFORT HIGH SCHOOL'S STUDENT ATHLETES success CAN BE SUMMED UP IN A FEW SIMPLE WORDS...

WHETHER ITS FOOTBALL, SOFTBALL, BASEBALL OR GIRLS BASKETBALL NO OTHER PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF ITS SIZE HAS HAD THE ATHLETIC  success THAT FRANKFORT HAS HAD...OVER THE PAST 5 YEARSTHE PROGRAMS HAVE COMBINED FOR MORE THEN 12 DISTRICT TITLES, 6 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND 2 STATE TITLES...AND that's ONLY THERE ON FIELD ACCOMPLISHMENTS...

THE FOOTBALL TEAM ALONE HAS BEEN ACADEMIC ALL-STATE 14 STRAIGHT TIMES, THE SOFTBALL TEAM HAS BEEN NATIONALLY RANKED IN THE TOP 50 ACADEMICALLY FOR FIVE STRAIGHT YEARS...AND THE COACHES SAY ITS ATHLETICS THAT HELP STUDENT EXCEL IN THE CLASSROOM...

DAN NUGENT AND KEETON SPENCLY ARE TWO OF THE STAR STUDENT ATHLETES AT FRANKFORT...NUGENTS A THREE SPORT STAR AND WILL BE AT NORTHWOOD ON AN ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP NEXT YEAR...SPENCLY ALSO PLAYS THREE SPORTS AND SHE'S HEADED TO GRAND VALLEY STATE...

WHILE THE KIDS JUGGLE ACADEMICS AND ATHLETICS, THE STAFF AT FRANKFORT ALSO WEAR MULTIPLE HATS
TEACHING AND COACHING.

ALL THAT HARD WORK AND DEDICATION PUT IN BY THE STAFF AND STUDENTS AT FRANKFORT IS NOT LOST ON THE COMMUNITY.

WITH THE COMMUNITY BEHIND THEM AND A TRADITION TO UPHOLD, THE STUDENT ATHLETES AT FRANKFORT ARE TAUGHT TO TREAT EVERY MOMENT LIKE A TIE GAME.

 

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