Sports

MIKE ROSENBAUM
Special to the Jewish News

S

Hall of Fame

will honor

loan Eddleston and Kim
Spaulding enjoyed great
success at different high
schools, both athletically
and academically.
Their paths will converge
Monday, Nov. 6, when they
receive the Male and Female
Jewish High School Athlete of the
Year awards at the annual
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame Dinner.
Eddleston stood out from the
moment he entered Cranbrook-
Kingswood High School in Bloomfield Hills. As a freshman, he
was the quarterback for the junior varsity football team, then
earned a starting spot on the varsity basketball squad.
He eventually earned nine varsity letters, three apiece in foot-
ball, basketball and lacrosse. He was the varsity football team's
starting quarterback for three years and earned All-Metro
Conference honors as a senior.
He was also a three-year starter in bas-
Kim
ketball.
He would have made it four, but
S auldings
lost
his
senior
season to a bout of
rst love is
mononucleosis. He captained both the
hockey.
football and basketball squads.
Spaulding was starting third baseman on
Farmington Harrison's softball team for 2 1/2
years, and was captain as a senior. But her
greatest athletic success came in hockey,
which she began playing at age 4.
She initially played hockey on boys'
teams because there was no girls' program.
She joined a girls' travel team, the Oak
Park-based Honeybaked squad, at age 12.
A playmaking right wing, Spaulding was
on state championship hockey teams in
1996, 1998 and 1999.
—
Spaulding practically grew up around
hockey rinks. Her father, Ray, was a coach and her mother, Shelley,
started a Southfield beginners' clinic around the time Kim began
skating.
"Hockey was always most important to me," Spaulding says. "I
love softball, too. But that was my more relaxing, fun sport."
Both Eddleston and Spaulding were also outstanding high school
students. Spaulding was a member of Harrison's National Honor

Cranbrook's

Eddleston and

Harrison's

Spaulding.