Delton Kellogg High School

Our very own Ms. Janis Dinda has been inducted into the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan for her fantastic work and service to the game the past 40 years! Click the link to read more: https://www.bcam.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/22HOHBios.pdf FRIEND OF BASKETBALL Janis Dinda – Delton Kellogg HS Janis Dinda has attended hundreds of athletic contests in her life, but basketball had always been her favorite, even as a girl when she would watch her older brother’s church league games. In 1985 she began teaching at Delton Kellogg HS and started attending the basketball games there—home and away. Her love for the sport returned, and beginning with the 1988 season, she learned how to run the scoreboard and keep the official book and work at the scorer’s table when needed. She has scored every varsity boys’ contest since. Over the years, she has taken on scoring for all levels of the boys’ program—only occasionally missing a sub-varsity game due to scheduling conflicts between boys and girls. She took over scoring the girls’ games in the early 2000’s—scoring for both boys’ and girls’ programs. In 2007, when the seasons changed, she scored 100 games that winter working both programs with games four nights a week. She continues to score for both programs but follows the boys’ teams when a girls’ game is scheduled for the same time. This will be her 35th year at the table. The program at DK has always manufactured their own scorebooks, even before Janis was around. But over the years she has modified the format to work better as scoring has changed; and she continues the DK tradition of creating all the scorebooks each year for all the levels of basketball. She takes great pride in making sure that each quarter is in its own separate color when she scores, which makes it very easy to retell the story of the game. Janis volunteers year-round with the sports programs at Delton Kellogg. You can find her working the long jump during track season (35 years), working in the press box (scoreboard) during football season (30+ years), and timing at the finish line during cross country season (25+ years). Delton Kellogg athletic director and girls’ varsity head coach Michael Mohn nominated Janis for the BCAM Hall of Honor. He notes her incredible commitment to the kids, the coaches, and their teams as she never has missed a varsity game in over 32 years. “Janis has a huge heart for kids, and it shows with every effort she makes in supporting our DK student-athletes.” Janis has many people she would like to thank: her long-time table partner, Tom Norton—the “man on the clock”; the many coaches including Mike Mohn, Jim Hogoboom, and Rick Williams; the DKHS athletic directors: Karen Leinaar, Mike Garvey, Ben Farkas and Mike Mohn; the many basketball officials she has worked with over the years; the many volunteers at the opposing schools; and most importantly the student-athletes—they are the reason any of us are here.