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.