Boys Track & Field

Houghton senior Clayton Sayen added another night of highlights to an incredible senior campaign, winning a rare race combination of the 100, 400 and 3,200 meters at the Ontonagon Invitational on May 4 to earn the Michigan Army National Guard “Performance of the W...

Aaron Wesche didn’t waste any time in setting some goals for the Addison boys track & field team. “I told them at signups that we were going to compete for the Regional title, and our goal was to compete for the top three at the state meet,” Wesch...

This edition of “Clip of the Week” sponsored by Great Clips features Ryan Ruiter crossing the finishing line just ahead of the rest for Lansing Catholic in a 400-meter race against Fowlerville.

When Marcus Montgomery took the advice of his good friend Juwan Roberts and joined the Saginaw Heritage track team prior to the 2017 season, he did it with the simple expectation of having fun. He never imagined where he would be a year later – among the top 400-...

Wyoming Lee senior Thomas Robinson, a four-time MHSAA Finals sprints champion, is off to another fast start.  He swept the 100 and 200 championships at Saturday’s Fred Solis Invitational with two of the fastest times statewide this season to earn the Michiga...

Jeremy Kloss is growing weary of northern Michigan’s cold, snowy spring. “I’m a little frustrated,” said the Harbor Springs junior, who won the 1,600 and 3,200 meters at last June’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 4 Track & Field Finals...

Cameron Oleen first ran track his sophomore year. As a junior last spring, he was the 400-meter champion at the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 2 Finals.

Sam Cleveland remembers a day back in elementary school, or at least parts of it, that changed his life forever.  He recalled feeling lightheaded, seeing a fuzzy image of the floor before passing out. After regaining consciousness, he was taken by ambulance to the...

The MHSAA Track & Field Finals are still a couple months, a few thunderstorms and maybe even some snow showers away.  But, there’s once again one thing you can most likely count on – the Hillsdale Hornets boys track & field team will be well re...

In a nation at war, the needs of many outweigh the desires of a few. Among the many noble sacrifices for the greater good was Michigan’s spring high school sports season of 1918.

When the Traverse City Central boys cross country team opened practice last Wednesday, the gregarious John Lober was nowhere in sight. Instead, the Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame coach was teeing it up on a golf course in Kalkaska Count...

As coach Jeff Erickson searched the hallways for athletes to bolster his boys track & field team, he let them know up front this was not a sport where they’d get tons of attention and hype. This season, the Whittemore-Prescott boys track & field team &nda...

There appeared to be a sense of relief within the ranks of the Rapid River boys track team Saturday as it retained its Upper Peninsula Division 3 crown. Rapid River edged Bessemer 108-104 for the title, but the teams were tied at 96 prior to the 1,600-meter relay.

Steady improvement through this season paid off for the Newberry boys track team Saturday as it scored 130½ points to win its first Upper Peninsula Division 2 title in 11 years. The Indians were followed by three-time defending champ Ishpeming with 102 and Steph...

The boys on the Chesaning track & field team are emotionally spent.  A Saturday saturated with stress gave way to pure bliss as the Indians kept grinding all the way to a Lower Peninsula Division 3 championship at Comstock Park.

Winning it all doesn’t necessarily mean winning them all when it comes to track & field.  In fact, the Whittemore-Prescott boys team didn’t win a single event at Saturday’s Lower Peninsula Division 4 championship meet at Grand Rapids’ H...

The Marquette boys quietly went about their business Saturday and were rewarded with their third straight Upper Peninsula Division 1 track & field title. Marquette collected 128 points. Iron Mountain edged Houghton 76½-73 for the runner-up trophy, and Kingsf...

Khance Meyers put on one final show in an East Kentwood uniform Saturday, and did it on his home track. The senior sprinting star won the 100 and 200 meters for the second straight year at the Lower Peninsula Division 1 Boys Track & Field Finals, and anchored the w...

Noah Jacobs of Corunna is another in a long line of tremendous distance runners to come out of this state. Among the names he’s chased include Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein of Rockford and Grant Fisher of Grand Blanc.

The MHSAA Track & Field Finals again will draw one of the largest groups of competitors of any championship event in the state this school year. And fans surely will recognize a number of names from Finals past – including, on the boys side, a number of senio...