Boys Track & Field

With the number of elite athletes Lake Orion, Auburn Hills Avondale and Lansing Catholic have featured over the last many years, it was somewhat surprising that none had won an MHSAA boys track and field championship. All three can check that goal off the list after ea...

Zack Zingsheim’s career highlight is an easy pick. It was just a few months ago, at Michigan International Speedway, when he stunned even himself by winning the MHSAA Division 3 cross country championship. It was the greatest day he could remember. And he can tel...

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.

At 6-foot-1 and a solid 205 pounds, Drake Johnson looks every bit the part of the college running back he’ll become this fall at the University of Michigan. And amid chasing the MHSAA record for single-season rushing yards this fall, he became a recognizable face ...

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...

This week's honorees include arguably Michigan's top distance runner, top lacrosse player, and a baseball team looking to assert itself at the top while representing the state's largest city.

While his teammates ran against White Lake Lakeland last Tuesday, Devin Kimberlin was inside Walled Lake Northern High School studying for an Advanced Placement exam. He had about 10 minutes to spare to run one race – and hoped Garret Zuk would help him make it wo...

So far this season, Walled Lake Central's Cullen Prena has broken both his school and the Oakland County discus records.His best throw topped 187 feet -- only 11 shy of what he'd need to break the MHSAA Finals record later this spring.  But here’s the kicker...

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.

Jake McFadden has become familiar with the number 1 over the last four years as one of Michigan’s elite high school hurdlers. But he’s got his sight set on three more numbers in this, his final Clare season – 37, 21 and 13.

Two future Big Ten athletes and a two-time reigning MHSAA champion have already made some significant strides this spring.

All I ever wanted from my high school athletic career was to be an all-state runner in cross country. But I learned that getting the all-state medal is not what is important. Having fun is what really matters.