Records Report

Lake Fenton’s Jordan Newman scored an impressive 40 goals as a freshman in 2011. And then she just kept filling the net. Camri Grace’s scoring run began much differently. She didn’t hit a home run in 33 games as a freshman – but had 18 homers in...

Amber Crouse finished her girls lacrosse career by helping Hartland to its third straight MHSAA Semifinal this spring after also playing a big part in her team’s run to a Division 1 runner-up finish in 2012. Along the way, Crouse also built one of the most impres...

Kelley Wright played in 107 games for the St. Ignace varsity girls basketball team. She was part of 102 wins. Those games played rank second in MHSAA girls hoops history and the wins are first, adding to a number of accomplishments by the recently-graduated Saints star...

By nature of sports, we usually celebrate those who score the most points. But this basketball season allowed us to marvel at two of the best ever at keeping opponents from getting to the hoop.

Arguably the biggest individual headline this boys basketball season was made by Allen Park Inter-City Baptist senior Evan Kraatz. Also one of the all-time assist leaders in MHSAA boys soccer history, Kraatz broke the boys basketball career assists record that had stoo...

Muskegon Mona Shores made the MHSAA football playoffs for the first time in 2013, boosted by the highest-scoring offense in school history. Two of the top contributors now appear on the MHSAA records lists as well, with more sure to come this fall for the one running t...

Never underestimate the value of a talented kicker on a high school football team. This season’s MHSAA Finals showed again just how much that unheralded player can contribute to a championship effort.

Allen Park Inter-City Baptist's Evan Kraatz will graduate this spring as the most accomplished passer in MHSAA history.  And that's not just because of Kraatz' publicized accomplishment this winter.

Ithaca, and quarterback Travis Smith in particular, are all over the MHSAA football record book after extending the program’s winning streak to 56 straight games in 2013. Read on to see some of his incredible totals, plus recently-added record setters i...

Midland Dow’s fifth straight MHSAA championship in the fall was keyed by another outstanding group of veterans who have grown up winning in the program – including the most successful doubles players in MHSAA history. Find out more about that pair, plus the...

Remus Chippewa Hills baseball was in good hands over the last six seasons – those of brothers Erik and Jake Tarbell, who combined to go 76-15 on mound from the start of Erik’s career in 2008 to the close of Jake’s last spring. Read on for more about t...

Softball season is on the verge of starting as the snow continues to melt and fields dry out this week. And as games begin, we’ll be keeping an eye on a pair of standouts carrying two of the longest hitting streaks in MHSAA history – including one chasing t...

A pair of volleyball aces, or rather acers, top this week’s list of additions to the MHSAA record book listings. Check out some of the back stories as well behind this week's additions in baseball, girls and boys basketball, football, girls lacrosse and boys tenn...

A goal-scoring record plus recognition of one of the team's best at keeping shots out of the net are among recent additions to the MHSAA record listings.  Read on for more, including Cadillac ice hockey's record for two goals scored in the shortest amount of time ...

Mancelona’s Dakota Derrer will enter her final high school softball season as an MHSAA and national record holder. The senior shortstop has been added to the MHSAA record book for 20 triples she hit in 2012 as a sophomore, one of 12 recent additions to the MHSAA ...

Over the last decade, the Chatfield family from Burt Lake Northern Michigan Christian has rewritten much of the MHSAA soccer record book, with 35 listings bearing that last name. Aaron, a senior this year, likely will graduate as the best of the bunch. The newest M...

Kalamazoo Hackett Catholic Central's Meika Ashby is finishing up an incredible high school career and a senior season that's already included breaking an MHSAA record for most straight-set shutout wins. That and an impressive winning streak that ended in the final m...

Holly VanNoord capped her Hudsonville Unity Christian soccer career last spring by helping hoist the team’s third MHSAA championship trophy won during her brilliant four seasons in goal. But her accomplishments as the team’s keeper made more than just MHSA...

Letitia Bowen led Buchanan to the top of Class C in 1990 with 31 points and 13 rebounds in a 42-34 MHSAA Final win over Detroit Country Day that gave the Bucks their first girls basketball title. This week's "Records Report" recalls the mid-1980s and just a month ago,...

Crystal Falls Forest Park junior Lexi Gussert has been one of the state’s most dangerous scorers over the last two seasons. It's a much-deserved reputation, considering the numbers she put up again this season. Gussert's name has been added to the MHSAA record bo...