Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame
2015 Induction Ceremony
Stephanie Smiley - - Holt High School Softball and
Basketball
July 30, 2015
Stephanie Smiley was a great
softball and basketball player. In
softball, she was a All District player at third base in 1995 and a Dream Team
Catcher in 1997 and 1998; in 1998, she was the Lansing State Journal Position
Player of the year!
In high school basketball,
she was an All-Conference player for three years. Her senior year, she was on the Lansing State
Journal Dream Team and an All-Stater.
Holt High retired her basketball jersey in 2004 and she was inducted
into the Holt High School Hall of Fame in 2007.
She only received one
Division I College offer - - from Eastern Michigan University. She spent the next four years making all the
other schools wish that they had noticed her talent.
She was the Mid-American
Conference Freshman of the Year in 1999.
As a sophomore, she was second team All Conference; as a junior and
senior, she was first team All Conference.
Ms. Smiley was the first Eastern Michigan’s women’s basketball player to
achieve that honor twice. She was also
Honorable Mention for the All-American team; she was also the first Eastern
Michigan player to achieve that honor.
Ms. Smiley thanked her
coaches, friends and family. She spoke
of a coaching career in Alaska, where she also had really supportive friends to
help her. We learned that in basketball,
the teams are spaced so far apart that they have to pay plane fare to get to
the other games and stay there for a few days and play a number of games during
each visit. She thanked her friend
Debbie Rohrer, who helped her raise the
funds to pay these costs so that her players could experience a sports program.
She also thanked her family -
- especially her mother and her father.
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