One of the best athletes, if not the best, to hail from the state of Michigan will enter a National Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a high schooler.
Tyrone Wheatley, the former Dearborn Heights Robichaud and Michigan football standout, was one of 11 inductees announced for the 2024 National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) National High School Hall of Fame.
Wheatley, who just completed his first season as head football coach at Wayne State, was nominated by the Michigan High School Athletic Association, and will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 1 in Boston, along with other athletes including Joe Mauer, Takeo Spikes and Dot Ford Burrow, grandmother of Joe Burrow.
Dearborn Heights Robichaud three-sport athlete Tyrone Wheatley in front of the school’s trophy case.
Wheatley is entering the Hall of Fame for his unparalleled success as a three-sport athlete for Robichaud in the late 1980s and early ’90s, earning him the status as the best high school athlete in Michigan history in the Free Press’ top 50 list in 2020. Wheatley won nine individual state championships as a track-and-field athlete, and was a part of two more team titles in track and field and football, to bring his personal tally of Mitten-shaped trophies to 11.
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“Tyrone Wheatley is, was and forever will be the best athlete I’ve covered. Case closed,” Longtime Free Press preps writer Mick McCabe wrote in 2020. “The former Dearborn Heights Robichaud star was an amazing three-sport athlete, earning all-state honors in football, basketball and track and field.”
Wheatley had success in everything he tried as a high schooler, from the basketball court to the football field, which would eventually morph into his career in college and…
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Author : Detroit Free Press
Publish date : 2024-03-13 16:42:04
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