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 9, 2014
A number of Week 2 football games were played over two days during a stormy weekend across the Lower Peninsula. But 14 games from that slate featuring teams from both peninsulas can be watched on-demand in one sitting on MHSAA.tv.
Read on for a list of recent events currently available on-demand MHSAA.tv, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.tv Highlights.
Football
- East Lansing vs. Grand Haven
- Montrose vs. Corunna
- Davison vs. Saginaw
- Chesaning vs. Hemlock
- Lowell vs. Chicago Hubbard (IL)
- Lincoln Alcona vs. AuGres-Sims
- Escanaba vs. Traverse City Central
- Calumet vs. Negaunee
- Rogers City vs. Rudyard
- Whittemore-Prescott vs. Oscoda
- Hillman vs. East Jordan
- Lakeview vs. Houghton Lake
- Posen vs. Rapid River
- Comstock Park vs. Wyoming
Boys Soccer
- Cedar Springs vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
- Cedar Springs vs. East Grand Rapids
- Montrose vs. Durand
Volleyball
- Chesaning vs. Hemlock
- Calumet vs. Iron River West Iron County
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, our John Johnson talks about how specialization contributes to decreased participation, more injuries and increased parental pressure - Exposing Specialization
MHSAA.tv Highlights: This week's package includes clips from the Corunna/Montrose, Traverse City Central/Escanaba, Posen/Rapid River and Rudyard/Rogers City football games. (See below.)