Notable Alumni
Mount Pleasant High School has graduated many notable alumni, including current Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball coach Tom Crean, former Duke University basketball player Vicki Krapohl, PGA golfers Doug LaBelle II, Dan Pohl and LPGA golfers Cindy Figg-Currier and Kelly Robbins. Alumni Ryan Brehm is the all time record setting medalist at Michigan State University and last year's Michigan Amateur Champion. Alumnus Paul Carey (broadcaster) was a Detroit Tiger announcer for 19 seasons and a Detroit Piston's announcer for 6 seasons. Alumnus Bill Theunissen, an outstanding athlete at MPHS as well as Central Michigan University, was dean of the school of Health and Physical Education for 20 years at Central, and was the university's baseball coach for 10 years; the university's baseball stadium is named Bill Theunissen Stadium after this coach. The MPHS championship baseball program claims numerous drafted players.
Mt. Pleasant High School is proud of its rich academic and fine arts tradition in addition to its athletic success, including Rhodes Scholars (one of whom, Jonathan Beere, is now a professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Marshall Scholarship winners and growing ranks of nationally acclaimed musicians. Internationally known scientists and educators include Robert Knapp, Chairman emeritas of California- Berkeley's Classics Department, world respected ornitholgist Francine Cuthbert PhD, Daniel Hole, co-creator of the "Marlboro Man" graphic icon.
Mount Pleasant Public Schools are listed among "America's Top 100 Music Education Venues." MPHS' Instrumental and Vocal music departments have graduated nationally known composers including the award-winning David Biedenbender, Grammy winners John Harris and Richard Allen, along with international opera stars having appeared at New York's Metropolitan Opera and Italy's famed Lascala. Internationally prominent musicians include Amy Gillingham (Oxford), Mary Poore, opera star Leann Sandel-Pantaleo and Broadway & film actress Abby Church. Mt. Pleasant High School's concert choir has received invitations to perform at Carnegie Hall, appearing there in 2010 and will again in 2013.
Various student groups from academe and practicum organizations regularly compete for state and national championships. In 2012 MPHS Technology students won 10 individual championships at the National Business Professional Finals competition in Chicago.
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