When it came to girls athletics in the 1970s, Annette Bohach set the standard.  She was an all-state basketball player at North Muskegon and one of the top softball players in the city.

But where Bohach towered well above the rest of her peers was in track and field.  In 1979, shortly after capturing her third consecutive Class C state shot put title, Annette took on a talented field in the National Junior Track and Field Championships and walked away with the title.  Her throw of 47-9 with the four kilo shot put was the best in the nation.  (The mark scored two feet better than the state’s Class A record and easily outranked the area’s all-time best of 43-3.)  She also had the sixth-best eight-pound throw at 48-6.  The performance landed Bohach a spot on the USA team that faced the Russians that summer.
The following year she enrolled at Indiana University where she became a perennial Big Ten champion in her specialty and for many years held the Big Ten record.  As a freshman in 1980, she became the first Greater Muskegon track and field athlete to qualify for the Olympic Trials.  She also qualified and made it into the finals in both 1984 and 1988 just missing a spot on the squad.

Despite being a proven drug-free competitor in an event that was crawling with violators, Bohach continued to excel, finishing fourth in the 1983 National Championships.  Annette’s all-time best throw was 55-6 while her best effort in the discus was 165-6.  Bohach also was an accomplished powerlifter, capturing the World Championship title in Los Angeles in 1984 and placing sixth in 1989.  Her best lifts were 275½ pounds in the bench press, 475 in the squat and 475 in the dead lift.