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Ford Field Trip Gives Students Taste of Football Finals Broadcasting
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
December 7, 2021
Four levels above them, in the press box, a group of prospective broadcasters were touring the facilities. The high school students had spent the Fall sports season streaming games to the NFHS Network and now were learning about a career in broadcasting from Eric Vandefifer, a Montrose High grad currently serving as the radio voice of Saginaw Valley State University basketball and as a contributor to a variety of high school broadcast channels including the MHSAA Network.
Seven years ago, Vandefifer was in a similar situation. He was part of a field trip to Ford Field for the Finals that helped him realize sports broadcasting was a career he wanted to pursue. Those field trips were headed by Tom Skinner and Thom Lengyel, who became mentors to Vandefifer. As a high school junior in 2017, Vandefifer was named Best Student Broadcaster nationally by the NFHS Network.
“With Tom Skinner now deceased and Thom Lengyel retired from the broadcast business, I just felt like I had to continue this and their legacy,” Vandefifer said. “It was important to me to keep it going because when I was in school, it was something I looked forward to.”
Nearly 50 students from Lowell, Montrose, Lake Orion, Mount Pleasant and Ann Arbor Greenhills high schools made the Nov. 26-27 trip to Ford Field. They were able to film highlights, interview players, practice announcing the games, meet other members of the press and more. For Vandefifer, giving back to students who are in the position he once was is very rewarding.
“We had the ability to feel like real media members for a day. I wanted to be able to give other students that same opportunity,” Vandefifer said. “Seeing kids who have a love for sportscasting and that drive to get better gives me real hope for the next generation in this business.”
And after the field trips were done each day, Vandefifer put his headphones on, got behind the microphone and called the two afternoon games for the MHSAA Championship Network.
PHOTOS (Top) Eighth grader Sam Belill, left, and freshman Owen Leitelt from Montrose practice calling a game from the Ford Field press box. (Middle) Mount Pleasant make a stop at the press conference room. (Photos provided by the Montrose and Mount Pleasant School Broadcast Programs.)
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Dot TV Schedule May Get Weather Worn
January 29, 2019
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
This week’s wicked weather likely will have an effect on the schedule for MHSAA.tv, with events being produced by School Broadcast Program participants likely to be rearranged significantly.
Here’s the upcoming MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network: Check the online schedule throughout the week for late changes.
Tuesday - Jan. 29
Freshman Girls Basketball - Hartland at Howell - 3:50 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Walled Lake Central at White Lake Lakeland - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Detroit Catholic Central at Warren DeLaSalle - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Saginaw at Saginaw Heritage - 4 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - Grand Blanc at Fenton - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Stockbridge at Fowlerville - 4 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - Gabriel Richard at Bloomfield Hills Marian - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Walled Lake Northern at Highland Milford - 4 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - Sparta at Fremont - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - East Kentwood at Grandville - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Saugatuck at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:15 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 4:30 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Millington at Freeland - 4:30 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Utica at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 4:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Hartland at Howell - 5:20 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Durand at Otisville Lakeville - 5:25 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Holly at Flint Kearsley - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Stockbridge at Fowlerville - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Flint Beecher at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Detroit Catholic Central at Warren DeLaSalle - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Salem at Novi - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Walled Lake Northern at Highland Milford - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Saginaw at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - New Lothrop at Mt. Morris - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Clio at Fenton - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Saugatuck at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Walled Lake Central at White Lake Lakeland - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - West Bloomfield at Southfield Christian - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball – Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard at Bloomfield Hills Marian - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - East Kentwood at Grandville - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Mason County Central at Hart - 6 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 6 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Millington at Freeland - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Morrice at St. Charles - 6 PM
Girls Basketball - Ubly at Bad Axe - 6 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Utica at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Shepherd at Frankenmuth - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Morrice at St. Charles - 6 PM
Girls Basketball – Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker at Harbor Beach - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Kingsford at Norway - 6:30 PM
Girls Basketball - Durand at Otisville Lakeville - 6:50 PM
Girls Basketball - Hartland at Howell - 6:50 PM
Girls Basketball – Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard at Bloomfield Hills Marian - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Holly at Flint Kearsley - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - Detroit Catholic Central at Warren DeLaSalle - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - Walled Lake Central at White Lake Lakeland - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - Saginaw at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - Stockbridge at Fowlerville - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - New Lothrop at Mt. Morris - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Clio at Fenton - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Rochester Adams at Lake Orion - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Salem at Novi - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - Walled Lake Northern at Highland Milford - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - Flint Beecher at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Whitehall at Fremont - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - Saugatuck at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - East Kentwood at Grandville - 7 PM
Boys Basketball - West Bloomfield at Southfield Christian - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Hopkins at Plainwell - 7:15 PM
Boys Basketball - Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 7:30 PM
Boys Basketball - Millington at Freeland - 7:30 PM
Boys Basketball - Utica at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 7:30 PM
Girls Basketball - Shepherd at Frankenmuth - 7:30 PM
Girls Basketball - Morrice at St. Charles - 7:30 PM
Boys Basketball - Mason County Central at Hart - 7:30 PM
Girls Basketball - Kingsford at Norway - 8 PM
Wednesday - Jan. 30
Boys Basketball – Blanchard Montabella at Vestaburg - 12 AM
Middle School Girls Basketball - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 4:30 PM
Wrestling – OK Silver Quad at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM (Belding, Wyoming Kelloggsville, Wyoming Lee)
Middle School Boys Basketball - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 5:30 PM
Competitive Cheer – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland - 6 PM
Boys Basketball - Ubly at Bad Axe - 6 PM
Competitive Cheer – Caledonia, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, Lakewood Lake Odessa at Grandville - 6 PM
Middle School Competitive Cheer – Greater Flint Middle School League Jamboree at Fenton - 6 PM
Competitive Cheer – at St. Charles - 6 PM
Boys Basketball – Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker at Harbor Beach - 6 PM
Boys Basketball - Farwell at Harrison - 6 PM
Middle School Competitive Cheer - Novi - 6 PM
Middle School Boys Basketball - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 6:30 PM
Middle School Boys Basketball - Everest Academy at Waterford Our Lady - 7 PM
Girls Basketball – Portland St. Patrick at Pewamo-Westphalia - 7 PM
Thursday - Jan. 31
Freshman Boys Basketball - Davison at Flint Powers Catholic - 4 PM
Middle School Boys Basketball – Novi Christian Academy at Southfield Christian - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Alma at Freeland - 4:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Davison at Flint Powers Catholic - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Grass Lake at Manchester - 5:30 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - Rochester at Fenton - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Durand at Mt. Morris - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Otisville Lakeville at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Houghton at Calumet - 5:45 PM
Girls Basketball - Cass City at Bad Axe - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Williamston at Fowlerville - 6 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Alma at Freeland - 6 PM
Competitive Cheer – Southeastern Conference Jamboree at Saline - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball – Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary at St. Charles - 6 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Fenton at Flint Kearsley - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Shelby at Hart - 6 PM
Girls Basketball - Roscommon at Harrison - 6 PM
JV Girls Basketball – Powers North Central at Norway - 6:30 PM
Boys Basketball - Grass Lake at Manchester - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Durand at Mt. Morris - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Lake Orion at Oxford - 7 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Flint Kearsley at Fenton - 7 PM
Girls Basketball - Otisville Lakeville at Ovid-Elsie - 7 PM
Girls Basketball – Ewen-Trout Creek at Dollar Bay - 7:15 PM
Boys Basketball - Houghton at Calumet - 7:15 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Alma at Freeland - 7:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball – Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary at St. Charles - 7:30 PM
Girls Basketball - Shelby at Hart - 7:30 PM
Girls Basketball – Powers North Central at Norway - 8 PM
Friday - Feb. 1
JV Boys Basketball - Brighton at Howell - 3:50 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Ovid-Elsie at Otisville Lakeville - 3:55 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - South Lyon at White Lake Lakeland - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 4 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - Midland Dow at Saginaw Heritage - 4 PM
Boys Ice Hockey - Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Houghton - 4 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball – Waterford Kettering at Highland Milford - 4 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball – Macomb L’Anse Creuse North at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 4:30 PM
Freshman Boys Basketball – Royal Oak Shrine at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 4:30 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - Ludington at Fremont - 4:30 PM
Wrestling – West Michigan Conference Meet at Hart - 5 PM
JV Boys Ice Hockey – Birmingham Brother Rice at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 5:15 PM
Unified Sports - Brighton at Howell - 5:20 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Ovid-Elsie at Otisville Lakeville - 5:20 PM
JV Girls Basketball – Temperance Bedford at Saline - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Vandercook Lake at Manchester - 5:30 PM
Boys Basketball – Waterford Our Lady at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball – Waterford Kettering at Highland Milford - 5:30 PM
Girls Basketball - Flint Hamady at Corunna - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball – Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest at Southfield Christian - 5:30 PM
Girls Basketball – Indian River Inland Lakes at Pellston - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - South Lyon at White Lake Lakeland - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Basketball - Midland Dow at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Canton at Novi - 5:30 PM
Freshman Girls Basketball - Temperance Bedford at Saline - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 5:45 PM
Girls Basketball - Flint Kearsley at Fenton&