Girls Track & Field

Norway senior Dani Gagne might not be a familiar name among the Lower Peninsula track and field community. But in the Upper Peninsula, she's built a legacy that will be talked about for years to come.

Sami Michell knows her starts could be better. And she's sure she can improve her arm positions when she’s going over hurdles. The Reed City junior is a self-admitted perfectionist. And she’s already thinking about next season. The rest of Michigan should ...

A four-time track champion and a longtime state tennis power once again at the top make up this week's list of high achievers.

Rain or shine and everything in between couldn't keep a strong class of MHSAA Track and Field athletes from once again shining in the final girls meets of the season Saturday. A total of 19 Finals records either were tied or broken during the seven championships eve...

Latipha Cross was desperate for a boost last Friday, or her high school track career was sure to end a week before what could be its crowning moment.. She'd stood against tipping points her entire life, including two bouts of cancer and two months of homelessness. But ...

This week's individual High 5 recipients will finish their MHSAA careers Saturday hoping to add to championship resumes -- while our team honoree is hoping to take the first step this weekend toward a first Finals title in program history.

Remus Chippewa Hills girls track coach Sally Schafer tells her athletes that each season is a chapter of one book that is the Warriors’ program. For the last decade, it’s been an award winner – and a best seller as class after class has kept going on...

None of this week's High 5s honorees knows much about losing. Ann Arbor Pioneer's Drake Johnson is unequaled in his best race, Decatur's Erika Southworth has averaged more than 25 wins pitching each season of high school, and the Remus Chippewa Hills girls track team ha...

Coach Steve Zaranek started a Grosse Pointe South girls track and field program in 1980 that became both sizable and successful over its first three decades. The near-simultaneous high school arrivals of some of the school’s top athletes of all-time then paved a ...

We're a week away from our first MHSAA spring postseason events, and these contenders -- all reigning MHSAA champions -- have been playing at that elite level all season.

Sarita Dotson is one of those athletes who always is focused full-speed ahead -- and on those rare days when she's not, she puts on that her usual determined face as much for herself as to be an example for her younger teammates. But there's an impressive depth to how ...

To be the best you've got to compete against the best, and these honorees all ended up at the top of impressive fields last week.