Wayne State University Athletics

Myron "Susie" Schecter was a three-year basketball letter-winner from 1926-1928. He captained the famed "point-a-minute" team his senior year in 1928. In 1926 he led the team in scoring with 221 points. He was the first man in the State of Michigan to score over 200 points. Schecter scored 750 career points while playing under Hall of Fame coach David Holmes. Schecter was selected to the first Michigan Collegiate Conference Team in 1928. That year, his team finished 18-1, the best mark in the school's history. The 1928 team won the State's first conference crown. Schecter also played professional basketball in the 1930's for the Flint Buicks. Following his collegiate career, Schecter did some amateur coaching with the Parks-McMichaels Team, a Ford dealership sponsored team, in the late 1940's. Schecter was born in Russia in 1905 and came to the United States at the age of 4. He went to Northeastern High School and graduated from City College of Detroit in 1929 with a B.S. in accounting. He owned a small coal business in Detroit until the depression-caused coal monopoly forced him out of business. He then began working at the Detroit Times in 1934 as Superintendent of the mailing department until 1960 when the paper went out of business. At the age of 55, Schecter began a new career in real estate until his retirement in 1978 at the age of 72. Schecter spent his winters in Bell Harbor, FL, and his summers in Michigan.