Girls Cross Country - 2x FML Individual Champion, Member of the 1990 MHSAA Class A State Championship Team, 4x First Team FML Honoree, 3x All Regional Honoree, 2x Class A All State Honoree

Girls Track & Field - 2x FML Individual Champion (1600 M), Represented Team Michigan at the Mid-East Meet of Champions (1994)

HHS Class of 1994

Debbie Barton ran cross-country and track for four years at Holly HS. She was a member of the National Honor Society and graduated in the top 10 of her class. Her greatest achievements were in cross-country where she was the Flint Metro League champion twice. In 1990, she finished 30th at the MHSAA state finals meet and helped the win the state championship. She was a four-time 1st team FML runner, a three time All-Regional runner, and in her junior and senior seasons, she was All-State in Class A. Debbie excelled at track too. She was an FML champion twice and for eight years, until recently, Debbie held the school record for the 1600 run. Michigan was represented by Debbie, when she competed as one of ten team members in the Mid-East Meet of Champions which includes teams from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.

After high school graduation, Debbie ran two seasons of cross-country and one season of track at Cornell University. She “retired” from the team midway during her sophomore track season due to illness. She did win one big race…the heptagonal JV cross-country race at New York’s Cortland Park.

Debbie, the first Michigan resident to be accepted in the Agriculture and Life Sciences program at Cornell University, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology and works as a fisheries biologist for an Indian tribe in Kingston, Washington. Her husband, Tom, is a fisherman off the coast of Alaska and she has two-step sons.