Entries for 'Gaylord'

East Grand Rapids’ Tim Johnston, Maple City Glen Lake’s Mark Mattson, Vicksburg’s Michael Roy and Gaylord’s Christian Wilson all lead programs that frequently earn headlines for success in competition. But these four athletic directors also are k...

The name Brent Metcalf is as revered as any in the history of Michigan high school wrestling. By Saturday night, Lowell’s Austin Boone may join the Davison legend in a pair of historic achievements.

When talking about a dynasty, Lowell wrestling coach R.J. Boudro says the cause and effect of his program’s reaches far outside of his wrestling room. Boudro and Red Arrows added to their dynasty Saturday at the Wings Event Center when they won their seventh stra...

Significant change will spark this season’s Division 2 Wrestling Quarterfinals at Wings Event Center, as five teams will be competing in Friday’s round that did not a year ago – including two programs wrestling for the first time at this level of the t...

A glance at the MHSAA record books shows 45 years of MHSAA skiing championships, beginning in 1975. But did you know the Association has sanctioned an Upper Peninsula Regional meet since 1952? And a Lower Peninsula Regional was added in 1954?

The Pewamo-Westphalia girls basketball team this past winter won its first MHSAA Finals championship, in Division 3, based in part on record book-caliber 3-point shooting. Get the details on the Pirates' achievements and more recent girls basketball record bo...

If seeds hold up this weekend, 11 schools will have representation atop the podium at the Division 2 Individual Wrestling Finals at Ford Field. That wouldn’t be unprecedented; in fact, last season’s Division 2 championship matches produced winners from 13 s...

Despite a broken left wrist, and cast covering it, Gaylord junior Reagan Olli won the giant slalom at the Division 2 Regional at Nub’s Nob in a two-run 54.94, and also qualified for the MHSAA Finals in the slalom in earning the Michigan Army National Guard Perform...

Three wrestling teams in MHSAA history have won five straight Finals championships. This weekend, Lowell will attempt to become the first to push its winning streak to six.

The town of Gaylord is surrounded on all sides by more than an hour of northern Michigan roads and landscape. But when it comes to high school wrestling, Gaylord is like an island.

Selection Sunday officially turns the page from the regular season in Michigan high school football to the postseason, and the qualifiers and pairings for the 44thMHSAA Football Playoffs will be announced Sunday (Oct. 21) at 7 p.m. on FOX Sports Detroit.

This could be a weekend of coincidence as all four 2017 Lower Peninsula Boys Golf Finals runners-up are in position to take the most challenging last step and become MHSAA champions. Keep an eye on Grosse Pointe South, Flint Powers Catholic, Big Rapids and Grand Rapids...

Three-point shooting played a big part in Pewamo-Westphalia’s run to the Class C Girls Basketball Semifinals this winter, led by senior guard Emily Spitzley. Check out where she and her team rank in the MHSAA girls basketball record book, plus more rece...

Austin Boone doesn't know too much about losing during the winter sports season. Wrestling for Lowell, it's easy to understand why.

A total of 23 reigning champions will return to this weekend’s MHSAA Individual Finals, and all 56 who will be crowned will be celebrated by their schools and communities.  But as is often true on this biggest stage, the crowd’s focus will turn nearly ...

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep thought it had won the program's first MHSAA skiing championship since 2006. Instead, Houghton-Hancock roared back to take its second crown in program history and first since 2010.

They begin their wrestling careers as little wrestlers in superhero costumes.  A little over a decade later they are dressed in the wrestling singlet of the Lowell Red Arrows and making wrestling history in the state of Michigan.

After becoming the fifth school in MHSAA history to win four straight Team Wrestling Finals last year, Lowell can become just the third to make it five consecutive this weekend at Wings Events Center. The Red Arrows will be chasing the record for longest streak held by...

During the winter of 2001, Davison’s Chase Metcalf was in the process of winning a second consecutive MHSAA individual wrestling title. Jerry LaJoie, the wrestling coach at Gaylord, was quite familiar with Metcalf and his younger brother, Brent, who would finish 2...

High school football fans will have eight presents under the tree Christmas Day – courtesy of FOX Sports Detroit when it re-airs the 2017 MHSAA 11-Player Football Finals – presented by the Michigan Army National Guard.