MIKE MOHN, CAA (Hastings), is a graduate of Delton Kellogg High School. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Oakland University in communications, where he was also a four-year member of the basketball team, and is currently earning a K-12 administrator certification through the Michigan Association of Secondary Principals.

 

Mike spent 24 years in the social services field with Holy Cross Children’s Services before entering a career in education. He was a treatment specialist coordinator at the Holy Cross Clinton Campus for nine years before opening up a supervised independent living office in Kalamazoo for 15 years, working with adjudicated youth, children that aged out of foster care, abuse-neglect children and children that had successfully completed a residential placement. After moving into education, Mike served as the athletic director and dean of students at Delton Kellogg for 14 years before taking on the athletic director role at Hastings beginning this school year. In addition, Mike also coached basketball for 27 years at Delton Kellogg, including 12 seasons as a varsity bous coach and 14 as a varsity girls coach.

 

Jim Hogoboom, principal at Delton Kellogg, writes, “Mike is a man of integrity, good character, and a model of professionalism. A tireless worker, Mike goes above and beyond the already ridiculously busy job of leading an athletic department. When you coach under Mike’s leadership it doesn’t matter what sport or what level you are at, he has the same expectations, gives the same level of support and serves your program, your coaching staff and your student athletes with the attitude and effort to help you be successful. I know Mike’s passion and commitment to the MHSAA, MIAAA and the CAP training program are all grounded in his desire to serve and find ways to help those organizations in a way that impacts not just our programs, but those all across the state.”

 

Mike is a member of the Two Century Win Club for varsity basketball through BCAM and was named MIAAA Region 5 athletic director of the year in 2021. During his time as an athletic director, Mike has taken on a number of leadership roles throughout the MIAAA. He currently serves as the co-chair of the Educational Athletics and Sportsmanship committees and as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee.

 

In addition, Mike is the MIAAA representative to the MHSAA for Basketball Rules Committee and served as the MIAAA Region 5 representative for five years. Mike has earned his MHSAA CAP Masters Elite certification and is now a CAP instructor along with being an LTI instructor and a presenter at the MIAAA annual conference. Mike is married to Jackie and has two daughters, Kristen and Samantha.