Entries for 'West Michigan'

One of the biggest names in Muskegon Mona Shores football history is back at quarterback – after a 40-year hiatus. Mark Konecny, who went on to Alma College and then became the first Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association player to make it to the NFL, move...

Lilia Henkel admitted to struggling a bit with her golf game during the months leading up to this high school girls golf season. You wouldn’t have guessed it after the Forest Hills Northern senior sent a buzz through the statewide golf community with a record-set...

With 20 seconds remaining in Tuesday night’s victory, the Ravenna student section started chanting: “Undefeated! Undefeated!”

Cameron Martinez is not done having fun in high school. Martinez, MLive’s two-time Michigan High School Football Player of the Year, signed his national letter of intent to play football at Ohio State during a midday event Wednesday at Muskegon High School. But u...

Over the past three weeks, John Shelton IV has established a new school record for wrestling wins while also reaching a rare milestone with his 150th career victory. While most would be elated and content, the East Grand Rapids senior wants more and has his sights set ...

Kelsey Richards is constantly compared to her older sisters, which doesn’t bother her one bit. “They were both amazing players, so I’ll take it,” Kelsey said with her big smile, which is on display seemingly everywhere – except during her ...

Max Perez remembers the despair he and his Hudsonville teammates felt after a disheartening 61-60 loss to East Kentwood in last season’s Division 1 Regional Final. The Eagles stormed back from a 19-point second-half deficit only to watch their season end in the c...

The Lowell volleyball team has earned a trip to the season’s final week for the first time. A beefed-up regular-season schedule helped pave the way toward school history – last week’s program-first Regional title and a spot in Tuesday’s Division...

It was far from love at first sight. When returning Muskegon Orchard View standouts like senior Dayton Rose and junior Owen Swanson first met their new varsity football coach Fred Rademacher back in January, they weren’t so sure what to expect moving forward.

Muskegon Oakridge had an extra reason to celebrate in the rain on Friday night. It was about more than just overcoming sloppy conditions and the never-say-die Montague Wildcats in a matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2 in The Associated Press’ Division 5 rankings. There wa...

Unity Christian soccer standout Kadin Shaban isn’t accustomed to standing on the sidelines and helplessly watching his teammates compete. Unfortunately, that’s Shaban’s current role after suffering an ankle injury two weeks ago during a game against Z...

Muskegon High School’s offensive line sustained some BIG losses after last season. Four of the starting five offensive linemen from that MHSAA Division 3 runner-up team, totaling 1,245 pounds in weight – and including 6-foot-5, 360-pound right tackle Anthon...

The Jenison girls golf team is playing with heavy hearts this season. Teammates and coaches are mourning the loss of the Wildcats’ No. 1 player, Sydney Carfine, who would have been a senior this fall.

Reyna Johnson and Kendal Hoppa were always forwards growing up playing soccer, scoring goals and enjoying all the high-fives and backslaps that came with it. So, forgive them if they were slightly offended last year when they were asked to move to defense.

The Jenison softball team wrapped up an Ottawa-Kent Conference Black outright title Tuesday night by sweeping Muskegon Reeths-Puffer. The championship shouldn’t come as much of a surprise because the Wildcats have racked up wins at a consistent pace for the past ...

Giovanni Weeks has always been fast, racking up plenty of blue ribbons during his elementary school days in Kent City. But now his coach looks at him and sees something else.

The Caledonia softball team celebrated the program’s first MHSAA championship a year ago with a 6-4 win over Hartland in the MHSAA Division 1 Final. With 11 players from that squad back, there’s a strong belief the Fighting Scots have the potential to make ...

Sam Baustert has never allowed his size to hold him back. Baustert may be only 5-foot-6 and 125 pounds, but the Whitehall senior has come up big over and over again – with one more track season to go.

The Forest Hills Northern girls soccer team made a surprising run to another MHSAA Finals last season with a roster filled with 18 underclassmen. A large majority are back, and it’s created similar aspirations for a program that has blossomed into a formidable st...

As Zara Weber explains it, part of growing up in Kent City is learning how to properly shoot the basketball. So, for Weber, the 3-pointer that she made late in the first quarter on Wednesday was just another shot – but it was also the shot that tied the team stat...