Salo named to MHSAA Student Advisory Council

EAST LANSING — Escanaba junior Carney Salo was recently named to the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Student Advisory Council.

Eight total student-athletes who will be juniors at their schools during the 2021-22 academic year have been selected to serve two-year terms on council.

The Student Advisory Council is a 16-member group which provides feedback on issues impacting educational athletics from a student’s perspective, and also is involved in the operation of Association championship events and other programming.

Those eight new members were selected from 114 applicants. That applicant total was 40 percent more than the total number of applicants who generally apply for SAC positions every year.

Combined, the new appointees have participated in 12 MHSAA sports, and five will be the first SAC members from their respective schools which included Carney Salo from the Escanaba Area Schools.

The Student Advisory Council generally meets seven times each school year, and once more for a 24-hour leadership camp. This school year, due to COVID-19, the Council met nearly twice as many times, but virtually all but once when members met for an outdoor, socially-distanced session.