Northville’s girls golf team is nominated for the Detroit News Girls High School Team of the Week following its third consecutive Division 1 state championship.
Voting closes at 5 p.m. today, Nov. 12, through the poll on the Detroit News website. Repeat voting is permitted, and the newspaper plans to announce the winner Friday, Nov. 13.
The Mustangs won the Lower Peninsula Division 1 championship Oct. 17 at Bedford Valley in Battle Creek, according to MHSAA’s championship report.
Northville finished with 631 strokes, ahead of runner-up Macomb Dakota’s 649. McKenzie Stevens, Naaz Gill and Cam Baker each shot 156 over two rounds, sharing 11th place individually.
The result extended a run that began with Northville’s 2024 championship. That year, the same three golfers and then-senior Sanya Singhal each finished at 162, tying for eighth individually.
Northville has won seven championships in nine seasons, according to MHSAA’s title history: four straight from 2018 through 2021, followed by titles in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
The program’s coaching connection stretches back further. Kate Schultz, then competing as Kate MacDonald, won the 2002 individual state championship with Trish Murray as her coach. The two coached together during Northville’s 2024 title season, according to MHSAA’s account of that championship.
Gill, the 2026 lineup’s lone senior, credited the team’s ability to recover from difficult holes during its latest championship weekend.
“One bad hole doesn’t dictate our round,” she told MHSAA.
