MHSAA News

Elections were completed recently to fill positions on the MHSAA’s legislative body, its Representative Council, with seven current members receiving re-election and an eighth elected to join for the first time. 

One of the MHSAA’s most popular programs, the Scholar-Athlete Award, will again present 32 $1,000 scholarships to top student-athletes at member high schools during the 2018-19 school year.

A focus on high school student sportsmanship, during and also outside of competition, will highlight this fall’s Michigan High School Athletic Association annual Sportsmanship Summit series, which will run during the first two full weeks of November.

The Michigan High School Athletic Association will conduct its 41st annual Update Meeting series in the coming weeks, and this year’s schedule will again offer in-service programming for athletic directors at six of the seven locations.

Michigan had the eighth-most participants in high school sports nationally for the second straight year in 2017-18, again outpacing the state’s national ranking of 10th for total number of residents of high school age.

Two sports repeated in setting postseason attendance records during the 2017-18 school year, as 1,390,590 total fans attended MHSAA postseason competitions for which attendance is recorded.

Concussions are down, according to data compiled by the Michigan High School Athletic Association during its third year of collecting head injury reports from member high schools.  The work is not done – but this year’s data reinforces trends that emer...

More than 100,000 student-athletes will begin practices next week in nine sports in which the MHSAA sponsors postseason tournaments, signaling the beginning of the 2018-19 Fall sports season.

Before starting down the path toward becoming one of the nation’s most respected trainers of baseball umpires, Brent Rice was a student at small-town Concord High School who didn’t have to put much effort into succeeding academically. But he received a chal...

Nearly 43 percent of athletes at MHSAA member high schools participated in more than one sport during the 2017-18 school year, according to the first-ever Multi-Sport Participation Survey conducted this spring and inspired by the work of the MHSAA’s Task Force on ...

As summer activities wind down with an eye toward the beginning of fall sports next month, the MHSAA advises that student-athletes need to prepare for training in the hot weather that traditionally accompanies the beginning of August and the first practices of the schoo...

Slightly less than 50 percent of MHSAA member high schools assessed sports participation fees during the 2017-18 school year, according to an annual survey that enjoyed its highest response rate in 14 years of measuring the prevalence of charging students to help fund i...

While enrollment in MHSAA member high schools saw another slight dip in 2017-18, participation in the 28 sports for which the MHSAA sponsors postseason tournaments rose to its highest point since 2013-14. A total of 284,920 participants competed in MHSAA-sponsored spor...

To recognize 32 years of leadership and service to Michigan educational athletics, the MHSAA Representative Council  has named its home office in East Lansing after longtime Executive Director John E. “Jack” Roberts, who will retire in August. The dedi...

A total of 98 schools won one or more of the 129 Michigan High School Athletic Association team championships awarded during 2017-18, including one school that won both its first and then second Finals titles of all time. Hart’s girls cross country team celebrate...

Yellow Flag Productions – which produces State Champs! Sports Network – and FOX Sports Detroit received a Michigan Emmy Award on Saturday for their “Concussions and the Modern Athlete” program that detailed the effects of concussions in athletics...

Three athletic directors who have provided decades of memory-making opportunities for student-athletes and a member of the media who is beloved for documenting those moments have been named recipients of the MHSAA’s Allen W. Bush Award.

The adoption of major changes to the Michigan High School Athletic Association transfer regulation was among notable actions taken by the Representative Council during its annual Spring Meeting.

Mark Uyl's impact on educational athletics has stretched from his hometown across this state and our country as a teacher, coach, administrator and one of the nation's most respected voices in sport officiating.  The Caledonia native and assistant director fo...

Eight student-athletes who will be juniors at their schools during the 2018-19 academic year have been selected to serve two-year terms on the MHSAA’s Student Advisory Council.