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and 1995 team captain Micah Heil-
brun. Ivan Frank was a captain in
1990 and was the team's first most
valuable player. A third Frank broth-
er, Ethan, is director of Birmingham
Junior Lacrosse, which involves play-
ers in the district's middle and ele-
mentary schools.
Aaron Frank has twice been voted
Michigan's high school lacrosse coach
of the year and served as president of
the Michigan Scholastic Lacrosse
Association in 1995-96.
Frank has no desire to coach in
college, which is the highest level of
lacrosse in the United Sates. "When I
was 21, I owned my own business
and we were doing well, and I
thought that it was pretty fulfilling,"
he admits. "[When I started coach-
ing], then I realized how little it
[business success] really meant to me.
"I've had kids come up to me and
say, 'My senior year of lacrosse was
the best three months of my life, I
really had so much fun."'
For Frank, words like that repre-
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I t only took one Red Wings
game at Olympia Stadium for
Stan Chodun to fall in love.
"It was the best place to
watch the game, bar none," said the
Detroit Country Day School hockey
coach and middle school administra-
tor. "It's a very emotional game,
played by emotional players, watched
by emotional fans — there's not
another game like it."
Chodun has been on the ice in
one way or another most of his life.
He started playing hockey in alleys
with a tin can. That turned into juve-
nile leagues in Detroit, then leagues
in Oak Park, near his boyhood and
adult home in Huntington Woods,
and later a club team at Ferris State.
"I hated school; I lived to play hock-
ey," he says.
How ironic, then, that he has
devoted his life to teaching. Like all
DCDS administrators, Chodun also
teaches — two sections of sixth-grade
science. And he's a dean of the mid-
dle school, responsible for attendance
and discipline.
The coaching began in Royal Oak,
and then Chodun went to DCDS 15
years ago. "I taught public school for
15 years; I got pink-slipped in 10 of
those 15 years," Chodun recalls.
Then he heard about an opening at
Country Day and was hired to teach
fifth grade. At Country Day, "I have
control of my destiny," he says.
Chodun's coaching philosophy
matches his teaching philosophy: The
kids have to enjoy the game, like
what they're doing, build a sense of
team pride, work together and estab-
lish a safe sense of discipline.
"There's a lot of teaching in coach-
ing, and I love being in the class-
room," he says.
His red and white office is plas-
tered with Red Wings paraphernalia
— large, framed pictures of Steve
Yzerman holding the Stanley Cup, a
teddy bear wearing a Red Wings
sweater, framed tickets from his sea-
son package at Olympia Stadium and
bricks from Olympia.
When he's not teaching or coach-
ing or maniacally watching a hockey
game on TV, Chodun likes to fish,
camp, travel "anywhere — I love the
mountains." And he spends as much
time as possible with his wife of 32
years, Channel 7 reporter Cheryl
Chodun, who is "always my inspira-
tion."
Former members of Temple
Emanu-El, the Choduns have two
children and a newborn granddaugh-
ter.
DCDS hockey coach Stan Chodun.