Gymnastics

Brighton senior Courtney Casper packed an eventful final month into her only season of high school gymnastics. And Farmington United junior Elisa Bills finally finished first Saturday after a winter full of second places. Both won three MHSAA Finals individual event ch...

That Rockford’s gymnastics team began this season in rebuilding mode was hard to fathom as the Rams raised a third straight MHSAA championship trophy Friday night at Plymouth High School. But this latest celebration was as much a testament to how far they’...

While last year’s MHSAA Gymnastics Team Final featured a group of veteran contenders rising as expected to the top, Friday’s season finale could be one of the most wide-open in some time.   Two-time reigning champion Rockford has surged again with a...

After taking fifth, second and second, respectively, in the MHSAA Finals Division 1 competition her first three years of competition, Grosse Pointe United’s Isabelle Nguyen faced high expectations heading into her final season of high school gymnastics – and...

Gymnastics is back in the spotlight with the success of the U.S. national team at the Summer Olympics.  However, girls gymnastics is a winter high school sport in Michigan, and we'll kick off the winter portion of "Through the Years" by looking at the 45-year ...

One by one, teammates hugged Rachel Hogan, while her coach Duane Haring placed medals around the necks of the other placers and worked to keep himself together. Before this weekend, nine Grand Ledge gymnasts had combined to win 13 all-around MHSAA Finals championships...

"Should have" wouldn’t have been the accurate phrase. But losing senior Madi Myers to an ankle injury during its second rotation easily "could have" doomed Rockford/Sparta’s hopes of repeating as MHSAA gymnastics champion Friday night.

Rockford/Sparta enjoyed quite the MHSAA Finals weekend in 2015, claiming the first team championship since 1989, on its home floor, and the Division 1 individual title the following afternoon. With their top gymnasts including that individual champion and another favor...

Gymnastics is showing signs of growth on the club level in the Upper Peninsula. Will some of that eventually lead to a larger number of high school programs north of the Mackinac Bridge?

Five-time MHSAA individual champion Rachel Hogan has been cautious this season after spraining her right ankle the week before Grand Ledge's first gymnastics meet.  But the Comets' senior showed she's ready to contend again, earning the Michigan National Guard "Pe...

Allison Tran saw glimpses in January that her soft-spoken junior was on the verge of competing with the elite high school gymnasts in Michigan. Minutes after winning this season’s Division 1 championship Saturday, Rockford/Sparta’s Morgan Korf was almost c...

The MHSAA gymnastics season finished Saturday with the Individual Finals at Rockford High School.  Click below for highlights and links to watch the events in full.

The Rockford/Sparta girls gymnastics team Friday won the program’s first MHSAA title since finishing first in the Lower Peninsula in 1989. Click below for highlights from each apparatus, courtesy of the NFHS Network. 

Championship banners line side-by-side an entire wall of the sizable gymnasium at Rockford High School.  Overlooking center court is a banner for gymnastics championships – and a lonely number 89, signifying the year of the school’s only MHSAA Finals ...

The Canton gymnastics team truly was a feel-good story in 2014 as it claimed its first MHSAA championship after three straight runner-up finishes, while ending Grand Ledge’s run of six straight titles. The Chiefs are a likely favorite again Friday at Rockford Hig...

Troy senior gymnast Christina Shabet paused a bit to think of an answer, which was understandable since the question required a lengthy and detailed response. As a talented gymnast who bypassed competing for a club team in order to be on the high school team her first ...

Second place. Second place. Second place. For three seasons, Canton fell just short of ending Grand Ledge’s hold on the MHSAA gymnastics championship. But on Friday, Canton finished a quest coach John Cunningham started 35 years ago – and claimed its first...

Arguably the most impressive current winning streak in any MHSAA sport will be on the line Friday at Plymouth High School. The Grand Ledge gymnastics team has won more than 100 straight events – duals and invitationals – and will compete for a seventh st...

Christina Shabet knew it wasn’t the best thing to do during a competition, but she couldn't keep back the tears Saturday after falling off the beam for the second time. She’d also just watched another competitor put up a great score on the apparat...

Grand Ledge’s gymnasts knew what was at stake as they warmed up for their last rotation of the MHSAA Team Final on Friday. And they realized how much more would be lost if they didn’t rally one more time this season.