This edition features Ironwood cross country champion Aundrea Stengard and reviews the Upper Peninsula Girls Finals and concludes with a review of the weekend's U.P. Boys Cross Country Finals.

It’s always fun to be first.  Tonight, when the Division 6 football game between Adrian Madison and Quincy ends, one of the two teams will walk off the field by enjoying its first-ever playoff win.  

This week, MHSAA assistant director Brent Rice explains how high school football rules differ from those at the collegiate and professional levels when it comes to awarding automatic first downs.

Boys Soccer Regional Semifinals and final-week regular-season volleyball matches saw ranked teams meet across the Lower Peninsula on Wednesday.

During a football season full of new and different this fall, this weekend will be right up there for first-time opportunities. With the regular season shortened to six games because of COVID-19 precautions, tonight begins the first MHSAA Playoffs with nearly every tea...

One of the MHSAA's most popular programs, the Scholar-Athlete Award, will again with Farm Bureau Insurance present 32 $1,000 scholarships to top student-athletes at member high schools during the 2020-21 school year.

As many wins as William Cooksey piled up playing tennis for Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett the past four years, there were probably more times he was asked why he was playing high school tennis in the first place. He's one of the country’s top junior playe...

A pair of high-powered contests among Detroit Catholic League rivals in multiple sports topped a Tuesday of Soccer Regional Semifinals, volleyball conference title deciders and big-time swimming & diving matchups.

Volleyball was the name of the only game in Michigan on Monday, with an annual meeting of northern powers topping today’s headliner list.

The Fenton High School swimming pool isn’t named after Gracie Olsen. The program’s record board only makes it look that way. Olsen, a junior, owns seven of the eight individual school records at Fenton, and she has her eyes on the eighth -- the 100-yard bac...

The last week of the girls volleyball regular season, and playoff action in football and boys soccer will provide plenty of viewing this week on the NFHS Network, MHSAA.tv and FOX Sports Detroit. 

When you experience a blow to the head, knowing whether you've suffered a concussion isn't always clear cut. Head injuries have a range of physical, psychological and intellectual effects — and only a small number of people lose consciousness.

At a time when we continually hear about the aging population of our veteran officials, it is refreshing to have an entire varsity crew made up of officials under 30. The MHSAA continues to push to recruit the next generation of officials. Current officials can do thei...

Whether it’s 6-0, 0-6, or somewhere in between, your local football team deserves our admiration for a job well done this fall. We started late, after not knowing if we’d play at all, and amid a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. And regardless of the wins and lo...

The first round of the Boys Soccer Tournament concluded over the weekend with first-time District champions in Muskegon Oakridge and Clinton, while the Okemos girls were among those who outraced their ranking in cross country.

Here are the pairings for the 2020 MHSAA Football Playoffs, which begin Oct. 29-31 with District First Round games in the 11-Player Playoffs and Regional First Round Games in the 8-Player Playoffs.

The Marquette boys grabbed four of the top seven places Saturday, retaining their Upper Peninsula Division 1 cross country title with 38 points. They were followed by Sault Ste. Marie with 47 points, led by individual champion Jaron Wyma.

It was a day for making history for the Houghton girls here Saturday as they edged reigning champion Marquette 56-58 for their first Upper Peninsula Division 1 cross country title. Houghton previously had finished Finals runner-up in 1989 and 2007.

Hattie Cota was the lone runner on the Munising girls cross country team last year. She became part of an Upper Peninsula championship team here Saturday as the Mustangs earned the Division 3 title with 54 points.

It was a day of firsts for a pair of Copper Country schools in the Upper Peninsula Division 3 Boys Cross Country Finals here Saturday. Dollar Bay was crowned champion for the first time, and junior Jonah Nordine became the first Ewen-Trout Creek athlete to earn an indi...