Matt Bauer and Eric Hagenow grew up in Sebewaing, Michigan together where they were classmates and teammates at Immanuel Lutheran School (now Christ the King Lutheran School). They both attended <a href="https://www.vlhs.com/">Valley Lutheran High School</a> in Saginaw, Michigan and played varsity basketball for the Chargers. After their high school days, they continued their education and playing careers at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cuaa.edu/">Concordia University</a> in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Below is a little more about them. Matt Bauer Coach Bauer is currently teaching at <a href="http://www.hemlock.k12.mi.us/">Hemlock High School</a> where he has been since 1997. He is also the varsity basketball coach. As the varsity basketball coach, Matt has had some successful teams go through his program which is evident as he claimed his 200th victory in December 2014. He has captured eight district titles as well as six conference titles. Coach Bauer has watched several of his top players continue their careers in the college ranks. In 2014, Coach Bauer was named&nbsp;<a href="http://highschoolsports.mlive.com/news/article/585125309846864720/hemlocks-matt-bauer-named-saginaw-news-boys-basketball-coach-of-the-year/">Coach of the Year</a> by the Saginaw News. On February 21, 2018, he won his 250th game over his alma mater, Valley Lutheran High School. In 2019, Coach Bauer was named Hemlock Business Association&#39;s Educator of the Year. It did not take him too long to reach his 300th victory as on March 9, 2021, during an undefeated season, he reached this high achievement. Coach Bauer was also named the 2020-2021 MLive Boys Basketball Dream Team Coach of the Year from Saginaw. He led Hemlock to the TVC West title. He is 306-138 in 20 seasons with just two losing seasons in those 20 years. Between 2020 and 2021, Hemlock maintained a 32-game winning streak! In 2022, the Huskies were crowned District champions again, the eighth under Coach Bauer. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1625791833162-Matt+%26+Eric.jpg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">Eric Hagenow Coach Hagenow is the principal and athletic director at <a href="http://www.stpeterhemlock.org/">St. Peter Lutheran School</a> in Hemlock. He has been there since 1996 as a teacher, athletic director, and basketball coach. He continues to coach all different age groups at St. Peter including starting a 2nd-4th grade intramural league in 2018. Some of his top players have gone on to play on the varsity team at Hemlock High School for Coach Bauer. Both of his children played varsity basketball at Valley Lutheran High School in Saginaw, MI, and his son, Brady, helps to run some of the camps with his dad. Brady also began coaching with his dad at St. Peter in 2019. They coach the St. Peter boys 5th-7th graders and also run a 2nd-4th grade intramural league at St. Peter. In 2017, Coach Hagenow was named Hemlock Business Association&#39;s Member of the Year for his community involvement and support. He finished his 25th year in the teaching ministry at the end of the 2020-2021 school year with all 25 of his years being at St. Peter Lutheran School in Hemlock.&nbsp;Fun Facts about Matt and Eric:<ul><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They went to grade school together at Immanuel Lutheran School in Sebewaing from 5th-8th grade.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They played basketball together for three years at Immanuel.</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They went to Valley Lutheran High School in Saginaw (drove 50 miles one way to get to school each day from Sebewaing).&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They played two years of Varsity basketball together for the Chargers.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They both were recruited to play at Concordia College (now University) Ann Arbor.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They both worked together running Fundamental Basketball Camps for Coach Larry DeSimpelare.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">Together, they started S.K.I.L.L.S. Basketball Camps in 1995. In 2022, it was the first year of S.K.I.L.L.S. that Matt and Eric did not work a camp together in the summer time.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They were college roommates and co-captains for the Concordia Cardinals for three years.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They married sisters and are brother-in-laws.</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They both are teachers in Hemlock; Matt is at Hemlock High School and Eric is at St. Peter, Hemlock.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They are both members at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Hemlock.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They both have two children, one boy and one girl each.&nbsp;</li><li style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px;">They were both born in January 1974, with Matt being 10 days older.</li></ul>Counselors from our 2023 camps: <img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1690487350721-St.+Peter+Counselors+2023+Cropped.jpg"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1690634790471-St.+Michael%27s+Counselors+2023+Cropped.jpg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1689941072161-Peace+Counselors+2023+Cropped.jpg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1689941033949-HHS+Counselors+2023+Cropped.jpg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1689299925679-St.+John+Counselors+2023+Cropped.jpg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1689299948869-St.+Lorenz+Counselors+2023+Cropped+1.jpg" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> <img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1689426114467-Immanuel+Counselors+2023+Cropped.jpg"> Counselors from our 2022 camps: <img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1659040417983-St.+Peter+Counselors+Cropped.jpg"><img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1659537825481-St.+Michael%27s+Coaches+2.jpg"><img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1658485925281-Peace+Coaches+2.jpg"><img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1658485872250-HHS+Coaches.jpg"><img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1657846839268-Macomb+Coaches.jpg"><img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1657846819595-Fraser+Coaches.jpg"><img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 300px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1656674405799-HC+Coaches.jpg"><img class="fr-fic fr-dib" style="width: 293px;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1656675995520-St.+Lorenz+Coaches.jpg"> Counselors from 2021 camps: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1627590214323-St.+Peter+Counselors+Crop.jpg" style="width: 252px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1626573994945-Peace+Counselors+Cropped.jpg" style="width: 253px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1626439728579-HHS+Counselors+Cropped.jpg" style="width: 352px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1626574026039-Immanuel+Counselors.jpg" style="width: 351px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1625791893230-St.+Lorenz+Counselors.jpg" style="width: 348px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/jerseywatch-wysiwyg-files/production%2FCustomPage%2F6332%2F1625791917886-The+Dream+Team.jpg" style="width: 350px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">Counselors from 2018 &amp; 2019 camps:<img style="width: 385px;" alt="" class="image-editor fr-fic fr-dii" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/Coaches-0kTtlQ.jpg">&nbsp;<img alt="" class="image-editor fr-fic fr-dii" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/HHS_Counselors-3Bsj9g.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;"><img alt="" class="image-editor fr-fic fr-dii" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/Peace_Counselors_2018-t73pMg.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;"><img alt="" class="image-editor fr-fic fr-dii" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/St._Lorenz_Counselors_2018-u8mHbg.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;"><img alt="" class="image-editor fr-fic fr-dii" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/St._Michael_s_Counselors_2018-n8mKvg.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;">&nbsp;<img alt="" class="image-editor fr-fic fr-dii" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/St._Peter_Counselors-B1yvxA.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;"><img alt="" class="image-editor fr-fic fr-dii" src="https://jerseywatch-files.s3.amazonaws.com/production/ckeditor/images/Trost_Counselors_2018__1_-QI1CPQ.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;">S.K.I.L.L.S. 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