Karen Plaisier - Class of 2018

(Ishpeming/Negaunee)

A three-sport high school coach over four decades, Karen Plaisier was also a standout golfer during that same period. She won the Upper Peninsula Ladies Golf Association championship in 2015 at age 65 after finishing second six times, and won five UPLGA senior titles. Plaisier also won two Great Lakes Senior Championships and 20 Ishpeming Wawonowin Country Club women's titles and won more than 100 tournaments in the U.P. and northern lower Michigan. She coached the Negaunee boys and girls golf teams from 1990-2011, with the boys winning U.P. Class A-B in 1993 and Class C in 2000. She also coached Negaunee girls track from 1975-84, winning four U.P. Class C titles and finishing second three times by a total of seven points. Plaisier was Negaunee's girls basketball coach from 1975-84 and won the 1979 U.P. Class C title.