70 | MARCH 30 • 2023 

N

oah Adamczyk’s fantastic 
basketball career at 
Bloomfield Hills High School 
is over. It was a career like none 
other.
No boys basketball player at 
Lahser, Andover or the combined 
Bloomfield Hills scored more points 
than Adamczyk. The 6-foot guard’s 
total was 1,519 points in four years, 
and that includes losing several 
games two seasons ago because of the 
COVID-19 pandemic.
“I didn’t know I broke the record 
until after the season. I wasn’t paying 
attention to how many points I had 
after I reached 1,000,” Adamcyzk 
said.
Adamczyk, considered one of the 
state’s top guards, scored a game-high 
26 points in his final high school 
outing, a 62-56 loss March 6 to West 
Bloomfield in a Division 1 district 
semifinal that left the Black Hawks 
with a final 15-8 record.
He’s in some lofty company on 

the Bloomfield Hills record board. 
Yante Maten held the previous career 
scoring record.
“It was in the 1,400s,” Adamczyk 
said.
Maten played his first three years at 
Lahser and finished his high school 
career at Bloomfield Hills during the 
2013-14 season.
The 6-foot-7 power forward went 
on to play four years at the University 
of Georgia. He was a two-time First 
Team All-SEC selection and the 
conference’s Player of the Year as a 
senior.
He wasn’t taken in the NBA draft, 
but he got into two games with 
Miami Heat during the 2018-19 
season. He played for Hapoel Tel Aviv 
during the 2021-22 season, and he 
now plays in Japan.
The Frankel Jewish Academy boys 
basketball team didn’t break any 
records this season. And it finished 
6-14. But first-year coach Bret Sutton 
said the Jaguars do not need to hang 

MELISSA MICHAELSON

SUSAN ADAMS

Noah Adamczyk left a legacy at Bloomfield Hills; 
Frankel ‘improved week by week’ for new coach.

Order on the Court

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

SPORTS

ABOVE: Noah Adamczyk scored his 1,000th 
career point at Bloomfield Hills with this layup 
against Plymouth on Dec. 14. TOP: Frankel 
finished 6-14 this season, but six of the losses 
were by five points or less.

