Girls Track & Field

The MHSAA Girls Track and Field Finals bid farewell in 2013 to one of the most impressive and accomplished senior classes in recent memory. But those departures have opened up plenty of opportunities for the standouts still competing and a new group of talented athlete...

Ann Arbor Pioneer owns an MHSAA-best 16 team championships in girls track and field, including a string of seven straight won in Class A from 1985-91. The Pioneers answered arguably their toughest challenge of that run in 1989, against a Detroit Cass Tech team featurin...

The St. Ignace girls didn't let anything stand in their way in winning the Upper Peninsula Division 3 track championship Saturday with 121 points. Two-time defending champion Brimley settled for runner-up honors this time with 57, and third-place Crystal Falls Forest ...

It was a historical day for the West Iron County girls at Saturday's Upper Peninsula Track Finals as they were crowned champions for the first time. The Wykons topped the Division 2 standings with 144 points. Manistique brought home its first runner-up trophy with 99 ...

Any questions? The Marquette Redettes proved they're the Upper Peninsula's best girls track and field team beyond any shadow of a doubt Saturday, claiming their third straight Division 1 title with 145 points.

There was no mistaking the marquee event at Saturday’s Lower Peninsula Division 1 Girls Track and Field Final. With three of the top girls distance runners in the entire country competing, the 1,600-meter final had the undivided attention of a huge throng at win...

Quality depth is a big key to success in high school track and field. And over the past four years, no Lower Peninsula Division 2 girls track team has boasted the depth of Dearborn Divine Child.

After finishing as runner-up last year, the Traverse City St. Francis girls track and field team did not need any emotional motivation Saturday at the MHSAA Division 4 Final at Baldwin Street Middle School in Hudsonville. St. Francis got it, anyway. But it came in a pa...

Finishing her prep career as the most decorated athlete in MHSAA Girls Track and Field Finals history, the only thing missing for Reed City senior Sami Michell was a trophy. She managed to knock that off the list late at Saturday’s Lower Peninsula Division 3 mee...

More good stories emerge from MHSAA Track and Field Finals day than perhaps any other during our school year. And arguably the most significant this entire spring will be final good-byes to some of the top female athletes ever to compete in this sport.

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.