Scarlett Middle School is a middle school

Middle school

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 located in Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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, Michigan

Michigan

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 serving grades 6, 7, and 8.

Recognition

In 2008, Catherine Campbell, a 7th grade science

Science

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 teacher, won the award for Educator of the Year by the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators.

Activities

Scarlett holds annual talent shows, fun fairs, and other after-school activities. Scarlett has always ranked high in Future City Competition

Future City Competition

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s and has begun to rank in the annual Geo-Bee.

Sports

Scarlett is very competitive in sport

Sport

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s. The wrestling

Scholastic wrestling

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 team dominated the city championships for many years and was led by legendary coach and wrestler James Bryant. Basketball

Basketball

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 at Scarlett is also very competitive. The 2009 8th grade boys' basketball team won the city championship for the 6th time, and many former Scarlett students have been successful at the high school and college levels, including in Big Ten

Big Ten Conference

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 schools such as the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 which is also in Ann Arbor.

Its mascot is the Roadrunner

Geococcyx

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Scarlett Honor Society

The Scarlett Honor Society

Honor society

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 or Academic Society was created by the former principal, Benjamin Edmondson. It serves as an addition to the Honor roll

Honor Roll

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 program that many schools have.

Notable alumni

• Zeke Jones
  Zeke Jones
  Larry Jones is one of the finest wrestlers in American history who won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, a world championship in Varna, Bulgaria in 1991 and is currently the U.S. National Freestyle Head Coach at USA Wrestling...
  
   (1982): 1991 World Champion, Olympic Silver medalist in freestyle wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  1992 Summer Olympics
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  , and current Head Coach, US Freestyle National Team
• Tricia McNaughton-Saunders (1981) Four-time world champion in female wrestling; Head Coach, U.S. 2003 Pan Am Games women's wrestling team
• Dov Cohen Ph.D. (1982) Professor, University of Illinois; Author, Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South
• Dr. Norris Hsu MD (1982) Internal Medicine
• John Stribley Ph.D. (1983) Professor, University of Michigan Medical School