Girls Swim & Dive

Many of the Houghton High School girls may be too young to remember when the Gremlins had last earned an Upper Peninsula swimming title. The Gremlins, however, created their own memories on Saturday as they gained their first title in 12 years with 339 points. They wer...

Holland High girls swimming and diving coach Don Kimble said his squad talked about it all year. “The second one is harder than the first one,” he said. “The second one, you’ve got a target on your back. Everybody’s looking for you. You so...

Senior Colleen Vande Poel did not realize at first the added significance of her Holland West Ottawa girls swimming & diving team’s achievement. Saturday's breakthrough went far beyond the pool for the Panthers. West Ottawa claimed its first team MHSAA champi...

After wading through three straight runner-up finishes before claiming its first MHSAA title last fall, Holland High won its second straight Lower Peninsula Division 2 girls swimming and diving championship Saturday at Oakland University. The Dutch won all three relays...

By the time she is finished with her high school career, perhaps Plainwell’s Mallory Comerford will be an MHSAA champion in all eight individual swimming races. Sounds a bit far-fetched to be sure. But after Comerford’s performance Saturday in the MHSAA...

Farmington Hills Mercy is expected to add to its girls swimming and diving dynasty this weekend. Holland and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood are predicted to take another step in building theirs.  All three reigning MHSAA Lower Peninsula champions are ranked ...

Morgan Bullock appreciates the opportunity she’d had to follow her older sister Jordan through the ranks of elite swimming. She watched the last four years as Jordan piled up five individual school records and a number of all-state finishes, and took note how ha...

Two 2010 MHSAA swimming and diving runners-up took the final step and claimed first-ever championships at Saturday’s Finals in Holland and Rochester.  The third MHSAA champion, Farmington HIlls Mercy, added a fifth-straight title despite moving up to Div...

East Grand Rapids, Holland and Farmington Hills Mercy are among the usual contenders who should again make runs at MHSAA girls swimming and diving championships this weekend. But competitors from places like Dundee, Walled Lake Western and Waterford will be pushing ...