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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.