After the first three weeks of the football season, it didn’t look like anyone was going to be able to stop Gaylord St. Mary. The Snowbirds, after all, had scored 215 points over three convincing victories during their first season since making the move to compet...

As the weather dipped toward what we expect every fall, teams in a variety of sports continued locking down league titles Thursday with MHSAA Tournaments beginning in boys soccer, Lower Peninsula girls golf and boys tennis next week.

This week’s show features South Lyon soccer standout Josh Mason and closes with an update on how the MHSAA is working with many others to improve the youth football experience.

We’ve begun the second half of the football regular season, and predictably every week will include increasingly important games as league titles and playoff qualifiers are determined. We’ve highlighted a number of matchups that could end up deciding league...

An illness forced Negaunee senior Emily Paupore to miss a week of school and training – and threatened the rest of her season. But the two-time reigning Upper Peninsula Division 1 champion returned to competition Saturday and set a Tracy Strom Invitational record...

In addition to the crowning of our first MHSAA Finals champions of 2019-20 (see girls tennis coverage under "Latest Posts"), Wednesday was filled with conference championship celebrations, mostly on the soccer pitch – where a number of ranked boys teams matched up...

This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis explains the difference between high school and college/pro rules in regards to the football tackle box and intentional grounding.

All good things must come to an end.  After a five-year run as Upper Peninsula Division 1 champion, the Negaunee girls tennis team was dethroned by Marquette on Wednesday at the MHSAA Final played at the Negaunee Tennis Complex.

Ishpeming Westwood continued its stranglehold on the Upper Peninsula Division 2 girls tennis championship Wednesday, winning for the fourth straight season. Westwood, which gained at least a share of title for also the 10th time in 11 years, posted 22 points and was fo...

Muskegon Oakridge had an extra reason to celebrate in the rain on Friday night. It was about more than just overcoming sloppy conditions and the never-say-die Montague Wildcats in a matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2 in The Associated Press’ Division 5 rankings. There wa...

Notable accomplishments from all over filled a busy Wednesday, and we also share today good news about a Michigan high school alumnus-now-world champion, realignment of the state’s largest league and a sportsmanship story that rang out loud and clear.

“Be the Example” is a driving philosophy during the MHSAA's annual Sportsmanship Summits, and this fall’s series – provided at four sites during the first two full weeks of November – will offer more opportunities for students to present th...

  This edition of State Champs Sports Network's “Clip of the Week” features a close swim finish in the 100-yard breaststroke as Battle Creek Lakeview's Alaya Marshall earns the win by 12 hundredths of a second.

As the high school football season starts to see teams qualify for this year’s playoffs, a number of games with regular-season title implications highlight the fare available this week on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network.

The soccer pitch saw a league championship celebrated Monday and an upset that could cause a shuffling in the Division 1 rankings heading into District play.

Here is a list of MHSAA football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the fifth week of the season.

When it comes to football, Russ Maki wears his heart on his sleeve. A 1971 graduate of Wakefield High School, he’s on a mission. As a 7-year-old, he fell in love with the sport and, in particular, with a team. 

The race was the place to be this weekend as girls swimming & diving and girls and boys cross country invitationals produced much of our best competition and many of our top performances.

The MHSAA's Girls Basketball Semifinals and Finals weekend could return to the Breslin Student Events Center as quickly as this upcoming 2019-20 season, with Michigan State University hosting the event this winter and in future seasons when the Spartans women’s ba...

In case you missed it: The rain showed up again this weekend, turning the Week 5 football schedule into a two-day trudge for about 200 teams across Michigan. But that’s not what we’ll remember most.