Following Olling's Championship Run
December 16, 2011
The MHSAA Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals were run Saturday at Michigan International Speedway. We followed Breckenridge sophomore Kirsten Olling as she won her second straight Division 4 championship.
She won in 18:02.7, giving her four MHSAA championships so far in her high school career. She also won the 3,200 and 1,600-meter races at last spring's Divsion 4 Track and Field Final.
Finally, a few "By the Numbers:"
--1,973 total runners at this fall's Finals
--Breakdown by class: 641 seniors, 591 juniors, 418 sophomores, 321 freshmen, two 8th graders (8th graders can compete on high school teams for schools with enrollments below 100)
This Week on MHSAA.TV
September 24, 2014
A growing list of volleyball matches from the Grand Rapids and northern Lower Peninsula areas and Upper Peninsula are among events from last week available on-demand on MHSAA.tv.
Below are recent events currently available on-demand at MHSAA.tv, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.tv Highlights. Also, weekly highlights, features and analysis of high school football games across the state on MHSAA Football Friday Overtime are now available for on-demand viewing on the Prep Zone page of the FOX Sports Detroit Website.
Football
- Lincoln Alcona vs. Tawas
- Onaway vs. Central Lake
- Whittemore-Prescott vs. Standish-Sterling
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Eastern
- Grand Rapids Catholic Central vs. Cedar Springs
Boys Soccer
- East Lansing vs. DeWitt
- East Lansing vs. Saginaw Heritage
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Sexton
- Lincoln Alcona vs. Alpena
Swimming and Diving
- East Lansing vs. DeWitt
Volleyball
- Posen vs. Fairview
- Oscoda vs. Rogers City
- Clare vs. Farwell
- Negaunee vs. Escanaba
- Posen vs. Hillman
- Calumet vs. Hancock
- Comstock Park vs. Allendale
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, our John Johnson talks about how some people try to dress up old arguments about national travel for high school sports - kind of like putting lipstick on a pig - It's Still a Pig
MHSAA.tv Highlights: This week's package includes clips from the Rogers City/Hillman and Tawas/Lincoln Alcona football games, Farwell/Clare volleyball match and Corunna/Montrose soccer game.