Performance of the Week: Sturgis' Kaylee Draper

September 15, 2023

Kaylee DraperKaylee Draper ♦ Sturgis
Junior ♦ Swimming

Draper joined teammates Kenzy Triezenberg, Ainsley Gump and Emma Garbine to swim the 200-yard medley relay in 1:55.53 on Sept. 7 against Hastings, breaking a school record from 1997. Draper also won the 50 freestyle with a Finals cut time of 25.47 seconds as Sturgis won the dual 92-69. Two days later, she swam on the winning 200 medley again and the 200 freestyle relay and was second in the 50 butterfly as the Trojans won the Mason Sprint Invitational.

She helped Sturgis finish 28th at last season’s Lower Peninsula Division 3 Finals, placing eighth in the 100 backstroke and 14th in the 50 freestyle and swimming on the 15th-place 200 freestyle relay. She also runs cross country during the fall and is a pole vaulter and thrower on the track & field team.

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Past 2023-24 Honorees

Sept. 8: Owen Jackson, Traverse City St. Francis tennis - Report
Sept. 1:
Rachel Forsyth, Ann Arbor Pioneer cross country - Report

(PHOTOS courtesy of the Sturgis Journal.)

MHSAA 2024-25 Student Advisory Council Belief Statement

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

August 27, 2024

The 16 members of the MHSAA Student Advisory Council are seniors and juniors from across Michigan who serve two-year terms.

These school year's SAC members are:

  • Itzel Albarran, Bronson
  • Harper Barnhart, Brownstown Woodhaven
  • Cale Bell, Sault Ste Marie
  • Drew Cady, Oxford
  • Diamond Cook, Southfield Christian
  • Henry Ewles, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep
  • Cole Haist, Big Rapids
  • Macy Jenkins, Milford
  • Isaiah Kabban, Harbor Beach
  • Frannie Keeley, Jenison
  • Ella Knudsen, Leland
  • Kaylee Kranz, Clinton
  • Trey LaValley, Romeo
  • Joey Spada, Kalamazoo Central
  • Ethan Stine, Bridgman
  • Anna Zoet, Grandville Calvin Christian