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oah Adamczyk had a grand
basketball career at Bloomfield
Hills High School.
He scored 1,519 points in four seasons,
including one that had several games
canceled because of the
COVID-19 pandemic. He
holds the career record for
points scored by a Bloomfield
Hills Lahser, Bloomfield Hills
Andover or Bloomfield Hills
boys basketball player.
Adamczyk was deadly from
three-point range and regularly scored on
dunks during his high school career, quite
a repertoire for a 6-foot guard, and he was
a two-time All-State honoree. As a senior,
he averaged 27 points per game.
Those gaudy statistics and honors
earned Adamczyk a spot on the Central
Michigan University basketball team.
But after his first season in Mt.
Pleasant, the 2023 Jewish News High
School Athlete of the Year has entered the
transfer portal and is looking for a new
place to continue his college basketball

career.
“I hope to make a decision in a few
weeks,” he said. “There’s no rush, but I
need to find the right spot for me.”
The right spot includes academics,
which are important to Adamczyk. He
was a National Honor Society member at
Bloomfield Hills.
His fields of interest at the moment are
business and entrepreneurship.
Going into the transfer portal hasn’t
been a better or worse experience than
his recruiting process during high school,
Adamczyk said. It’s just been different.
“There are a lot of players in the portal,
and they all have a story about why they’re
leaving their school,” he said.
He’s emailed several schools, talked
to coaches, and even visited a school
recently.
Adamczyk will leave Central Michigan
without having played in a game for the
Chippewas.
He was red-shirted last season after
seeing limited action in CMU’s pre-season
games.
“Red-shirting was my idea,” he said. “I
could see I wasn’t going to play much, and
I didn’t want to lose a season of eligibility.”
The decision turned out to be a sound
one because Adamczyk will have four
years of eligibility at his new school.
It wasn’t a lost season for Adamczyk
even though his name never appeared in a
CMU box score.
He was still able to help his team by
preparing them for games as a member of
the scout team. It was a successful season
for the Chippewas, who began the year
with just four returning players.
Tony Barbee was named the Mid-
American Conference Coach of the Year
after CMU went 18-14 and finished in
fourth place in the MAC regular-season

standings with a 12-6 record.
The Chippewas’ 12 league wins during
the regular season were their most since
the 2014-15 season. In the preseason
MAC coaches’ poll, CMU was picked to
finish 12th of 12 teams.
Adamczyk said practicing with Division
I players, getting coached by CMU’s
coaches, and growing stronger physically
will benefit him down the road.
“
And I learned some things about
college basketball I wouldn’t have learned
if I wasn’t here (at CMU),” he said.
For example ... “I learned our systems
and I learned that most college teams run
the same offense. The coach just puts his
spin on it,” he said. “I noticed that when I
was watching college games.”
Another positive from the season was
getting to know his teammates, Adamczyk
said.
“They’re some of my best friends now,”
he said.
Adamczyk is the son of Steve and
Michelle Adamczyk. He has an older
brother Max and a younger sister Arie.

2023 Jewish News High School Athlete of
the Year Noah Adamczyk enters the transfer
portal to ‘find the right spot’ to continue his
college basketball career.

A Chippewa No More

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

SPORTS

SUSAN ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY

Noah
Adamczyk

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Noah Adamczyk warms
up before a Central
Michigan University
pre-season game.

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Noah Adamczyk
gets ready to
shoot a free throw
while playing for
Bloomfield Hills
High School in a
2022 game.