Gymnastics

The Escanaba gymnasts will enter uncharted territory March 7 when they make their first Regional appearance as a team at Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills. The Eskymos qualified Jan. 10 by winning a triangular meet at Marquette with 120.7 points, meeting the MHSAA requirement ...

Reigning MHSAA Division 1 Gymnastics Finals champion Elena Vargo continued her undefeated run through high school gymnastics by finishing first in the all-around competition and leading Farmington United to the team title at Saturday’s Canton Invitational, which a...

Coldwater High School gymnastics coach Kim Nichols and the many athletes that have been a part of the program over the last decade will probably never fully fathom the impact they’ve had and continue to have on their community.  The scoreboard says it&rsqu...

Farmington United junior Elena Vargo wasn’t sure what to expect from high school gymnastics when she decided to give it a try this season. Rockford/Sparta senior Reagan Ammon never expected her high school career to end like this.

Chasing last season’s MHSAA gymnastics championship may have been a bit more exciting for Farmington United. But repeating at Friday night’s Team Final put the finishing touch on a dominating run that left no doubt which was the state’s best again thi...

Farmington United could be on the verge of one of the most dominating Finals weekends in MHSAA gymnastics history. The co-operative program with athletes from Farmington, North Farmington and Farmington Hills Harrison won its first team title last season since finishin...

Seniors on the Farmington United gymnastics team haven’t lost a dual meet during their high school careers. So when longtime coach Jeff Dwyer rested some of his standouts against Grosse Pointe United two weeks ago, and his team then found itself locked in a meet ...

As one champion capped a weekend Saturday that couldn’t have gotten much better, another potentially got started on what could turn into one of the most impressive runs in MHSAA history.  Yes, that’s a pretty strong statement. But Grosse Pointe United&...

Farmington Unified gymnastics coach Jeff Dwyer knows what a championship team looks like.  And he had a feeling he saw one before Friday’s MHSAA Team Final at Rockford High School.

There’s a chance at this weekend’s MHSAA Gymnastics Finals for the reigning champion to become only the fourth school in state history to win four straight titles in the sport. There’s also a chance we’ll celebrate a team winning for the first t...

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...