Local women’s basketball icon Julie (Polakowski) Swanson has published her second book “North of Tomboy,” loosely based on her experience growing up in Leelanau County in the 1970s.
Swanson was a member of Leland’s two-time state basketball champions; once held the state single-season scoring record 812 points and was named Michigan’s first “Miss Basketball” in the state and went on to a successful career at Michigan State.
“This is a project I worked on for years,” Swanson said from her home in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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