The Michigan High School Athletic Association office experienced an unusual amount of mobility this summer:

• Gina Mazzolini retired after nearly a quarter-century on the MHSAA staff, with special attention to skiing, swimming & diving, tennis, volleyball, international students and interstate sanctioning.

• Andi Osters was promoted to assistant director.

• Dan Hutcheson joined the staff as assistant director.

• Jeremy Sampson joined the staff in a tournament promotion, ticketing and marketing capacity.

• We played musical chairs with offices: John Johnson, Andy Frushour, Andi Osters, Geoff Kimmerly, Kathy Westdorp and Cole Malatinsky all have a change of scenery or surroundings.

So we have some new faces, and some “old” faces in new places at the MHSAA office.

During all these transitions, I discovered I was less jealous of Gina’s retirement than I was of the new beginnings for Andi, Jeremy and Dan. Their new energy renews my own for so much that we hope to accomplish together in 2016-17.