Entries for 'Breckenridge'

Getting beat by Coleman Clark occasionally last year only made Mason Sumner a stronger runner. Sumner, a sophomore at Breckenridge, competes regularly against Clark, a junior from Carson City-Crystal, because both schools are in the Mid-State Activities Conference.

Four individual cross country champions who had won a combined seven MHSAA Finals titles finished their high school careers at Michigan International Speedway last year. That means there’s plenty of opportunities for the next wave of runners at this weekend&rsquo...

The Kalamazoo Hackett boys track & field team overcame small numbers Saturday to repeat as champion at the Lower Peninsula Division 4 Finals at Baldwin Middle School. Despite having just nine athletes competing, Hackett finished with 64 points to 46 for runner-up S...

Hudson joined the list of elite small-school competitive cheer programs last winter when it won its first Division 4 Finals championship. Could another rising team do the same Saturday?

Alex Price’s 11 words – or rather, 56 characters – last Nov. 25 spoke volumes. And he and his teammates made them count during Friday morning’s Division 8 Final at Ford Field.

A very recognizable 27 football programs have combined to win the 56 MHSAA 11-Player championships contested so far this decade. Perhaps that’s the best way to illustrate the anticipation surrounding this weekend’s Finals, kicking off Friday morning and con...

The Michigan High School Athletic Association has selected 10 student-athletes from Class C and D member schools to receive scholarships through the MHSAA/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award program. Each of the scholarship recipients will be honored at a halft...

Championship action in two sports plus the second week of PrepZone gridiron coverage will provide fans of MHSAA action lots to choose from this weekend.

Breckenridge possessed the smallest competitive cheer team in terms of numbers among the eight in Saturday’s MHSAA Division 4 Final. Being fewer in number, however, didn't prevent the Huskies from adding another championship to their already remarkable resume.

It’s tough to overstate how dominant Breckenridge’s cheer program has been since returning to the mat at the start of the 2014-15 season. But neither of those first two Division 4 championship seasons was accompanied by as much success as this winter&rs...

Breckenridge football coach Kris Robinson is doing his best to remain guarded despite his team’s history-making run to begin this season. But the signs something special is playing out in his community are impossible to miss.

It’s become a ritual of the fall sports season – hundreds of high school football teams across the state of Michigan gathering for watch parties, hoping to hear their names and match-ups called for the MHSAA Football Playoffs during the Selection Sunday Show...

Breckenridge’s Dakota Colthorp was part of a group of wide-eyed and enthusiastic fifth graders who wanted to be involved in competitive cheer. At the time, the high school didn’t have a team due to low numbers. Seven years later, Colthorp and her elementary...

Breckenridge returned to the elite of MHSAA competitive cheer last season and remains the team to beat at this weekend’s Division 4 Final. But although the Huskies ended Michigan Center’s four-season hold on the championship in 2015, they must again hold of...

Griffin Seymour will head to Eastern Michigan University this fall as one of the most successful kickers in MHSAA history. Read on to find out why, plus see more of this week's record book additions for football, girls and boys basketball, baseball, boys soccer an...

The rebuilding process has been completed for the Breckenridge competitive cheer team.  After six years without a program due to low numbers, the Huskies returned to the top after dominating Saturday’s Division 4 Competitive Cheer Final at The DeltaPlex.

Michigan Center has built a Division 4 dynasty with its five MHSAA competitive cheer titles over the last six seasons. But the Cardinals will have to fend another former dynasty this weekend if they are to extend that impressive streak.

All four 2013 MHSAA competitive cheer champions also won their respective divisions in 2012. All four of those champions are back for the Finals this weekend at the Grand Rapids DeltaPlex. But all four likely will face their toughest competition of the last three seas...

Kirsten Olling's greatest competition wasn't on the course at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday. The names she was chasing were names from the past, some of the greatest runners in the history of Michigan cross country. 

Breckenridge High School has a mere 244 students. But one could finish this weekend's MHSAA Finals among an elite few in state girls cross country history. Three-time champion Kirsten Olling already is one of the all-time greats. But if she can win one more title, she&...