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Track Finals Live on MHSAA TV
May 28, 2019
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Live streaming video of Saturday’s (June 1) MHSAA Track & Field Finals will take place beginning at 10 a.m. on the NFHS Network and MHSAA.tv.
Saturday’s Track Finals kick off three straight weekends of MHSAA Spring Championships action on MHSAA.tv. All of the action can be viewed by purchasing a Month Pass for just $9.95.
Track action begins on Saturday at 10 a.m. (EDT) at Lower Peninsula sites in the greater Grand Rapids area at East Kentwood (Div. 1), Zeeland (Div. 2), Jenison (Div. 3) and Hudsonville (Div. 4), as well as at the Upper Peninsula Finals in Kingsford. Here’s the complete schedule (Girls run first in all events in 2019):
Lower Peninsula Finals (All times EDT)
- 10 a.m. – 3,200-Meter Relay Final; Round One – 100-Meter Dash, 100 & 110-Meter Hurdles, 200-Meter Dash
- 1 p.m. – Running Finals (100 & 110 Hurdles, 100 Dash, 800 Relay, 1,600 Run, 400 Relay, 300 Hurdles, 800 Run, 200 Dash, 3,200 Run, 1,600 Relay)
Upper Peninsula Finals (All event times approximate & EDT)
- 10 a.m. – 3,200 Relay
- 11:45 a.m. – 110 & 100 Hurdles
- 12:15 p.m. – 100 Dash
- 12:45 p.m. – 800 Relay
- 1:15 p.m. – 1,600 Run
- 1:45 p.m. – 400 Relay
- 2:15 p.m. – 400 Dash
- 2:45 p.m. – 300 Hurdles
- 3:15 p.m. – 800 Run
- 3:45 p.m. – 200 Dash
- 4:15 p.m. – 3,200 Run
- 5:15 p.m. – 1,600 Relay
Field events will not be shown, and awards presentations in all events will be shown when not in conflict with running events taking place at the same time.
You can get to the Track Finals page at MHSAA.tv at this link.
Over the following weekends, MHSAA Finals in Boys and Girls Lacrosse (June 8), Girls Soccer (June 14-15) and Semifinals and Finals in Baseball and Softball (June 13-15) will be streamed live. All events will be archived for free on-demand viewing, beginning three days after their completion. Subscriptions must be cancelled before the 30-day period is over to avoid recurring charges.
The Lacrosse, Baseball-Softball and Girls Soccer events also will have live streaming audio at MHSAANetwork.com.
The coming week also features select tournament games in Lacrosse, Soccer and Softball produced by MHSAA members participating in the School Broadcast Program.
Here is the schedule for Spring sporting events to be streamed live on MHSAA.tv for May 28-June 1:
Tuesday, May 28
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - West Bloomfield v. Waterford Mott - 4 PM
MHSAA District Softball - Edwardsburg v. Stevensville Lakeshore - 4:25 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Lowell v. Grand Rapids Northview - 5 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Coldwater v. Plainwell - 5 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - DeWitt v. St Johns - 5 PM
MHSAA Regional Girls Lacrosse - Brighton v. Novi - 5 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Montrose v. Saginaw Nouvel - 5:30 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Bloomfield Hills v. Walled Lake Northern - 6 PM
MHSAA Boys Lacrosse Regional - Flint Powers Catholic v. Bloom. Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 6 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Cedar Springs v. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern - 7 PM
MHSAA Regional Girls Lacrosse - Ann Arbor Pioneer v. Northville - 7 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Cedar Springs v. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern - 7 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Fowlerville v. Haslett - 7 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Monroe v. Temperance Bedford - 4 PM
Wednesday , May 29
MHSAA Girls Lacrosse Regional - Grand Rapids Christian v. Spring Lake - 5:30 PM
MHSAA Girls Lacrosse Regional - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett v. Rochester Hills Stoney Creek - 5:30 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Brownstown Woodhaven v. Lincoln Park - 6 PM
MHSAA Girls Lacrosse Regional - Bloom. Hills Cranbrook Kingswood v. Bloom Hills Acad. of the Sacred Heart - 7 PM
MHSAA Girls Lacrosse Regional - Grand Rapids Catholic Central v. East Grand Rapids - 7:30 PM
Thursday, May 30
MHSAA District Girls Soccer Final - Participants TBA @ East Lansing - 4 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer - Participants TBA @ Montrose - 5:30 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer Final - Participants TBA @ Plainwell - 6 PM
MHSAA District Girls Soccer Final - Participants TBA @ White Lake Lakeland - 7 PM
Friday, May 31
MHSAA Regional Girls Lacrosse Final - Participants TBA @ Novi - 6 PM
Saturday, June 1
2019 MHSAA Div 1 Track Championship - Finals - 10 AM
2019 MHSAA Div 2 Track Championship - Finals - 10 AM
2019 MHSAA Div 4 Track Championship - Finals - 10 AM
2019 MHSAA Div 3 Track Championship - Finals - 10 AM
2019 MHSAA UP Track Championship - Finals - 10 AM
MHSAA Girls Lacrosse Regional Final - Participants TBA @ Pontiac Notre Dame Prep - 12 Noon
In its 10th year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events, with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. Pixellot – the NFHS Network’s automated streaming solution – is used by schools wishing to live stream games but lacking the ability to staff events. The SBP also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 a month. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on-demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. School Broadcast Program participants also are selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website.
1975 Class D Football Film Finds Way Back to MHSAA for All to Enjoy Again
By
John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director emeritus
April 11, 2023
Chasing history was one of the most enjoyable parts of serving at the MHSAA for nearly 34 years. Researching information, but especially what I considered for a long time to be talking to the “old guys” (now I’m one of them) and soaking up their verbal histories of our games.
It also involved chasing down old photos, broadcasts and game films – especially those which preceded our more modern video era beginning in the 1990s.
When I arrived at the MHSAA in 1987, there was a shelf of old 16mm film canisters of an assortment of Boys Basketball Finals from the 1950s to the 70s – certainly not a complete set. The Association would shoot some game action from each quarter and the trophy presentations. They’d be sent out to the participating schools to show to the students (I remember watching a Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart game in 1967 when I was in fifth grade). Some would find their way back to the office – most would not.
Will Robinson, the legendary Detroit Public School League coach who led Pershing High School to the league’s first MHSAA titles (in 1967 and 1970) after a district-imposed hiatus from 1931-61 from statewide tournaments, would pull my chain every time we saw each other about those games featuring Spencer Haywood and Ralph Simpson, among others. We never found them.
So it became a project to try and track down as many old game films of state championships as we could.
Any conversation with someone with a history tone always included a question about the whereabouts of a game film or video. One of those recently bore fruit.
When Crystal Falls Forest Park played in the 8-Player Football Finals at the Superior Dome in Marquette back in 2017, I spent a lot of time talking with living legend Bill Santilli, who led the Trojans to the Class D crown in the very first year of the tournament in 1975, and who would later coach the school to a second state title (2007) and serve as athletic director. He said he had a box on his desk collecting dust that he didn’t know what to do with – that box contained an old video tape from that game.
I uttered four little words – “Send It To Me.”
After a while the tape arrived in East Lansing, and I got our video production friends at When We Were Young Productions/Rush Media in Wisconsin on it. This winter, they found someone who could convert it and sent me a file that was recently posted to the MHSAASPORTS Channel on YouTube. You can watch the Trojans play Flint Holy Rosary by Clicking Here or watching above.
There are all kinds of old game films/videos and artifacts in attics, closets, garages, etc., in every town. Two of our Muskegon historians – Ron Pesch, the MHSAA’s history guy; and the old broadcaster, Jim Moyes, who called games on the radio for years in the Port City – can tell stories of their own about discoveries they have made. Moyes found all kinds of mementos while working on his book on the history of high school track & field in Michigan, and sitting with Ron at this year’s Girls Basketball Finals, he told a story of finding the mother lode of photographs from one of his other historical passions – silent film star Buster Keaton – who spent ten summers in the Actor’s Colony in Muskegon.
Pesch found a listing for Eleanor Keaton, Buster’s widow, using a telephone book (remember those?), made a phone call and shortly thereafter, on a vacation to California, was in her living room where he was loaned a photo album and family scrapbook containing all kinds of images from their time in Muskegon. Many of those images appear in a soon-to-be-released documentary, while the album and scrapbook now reside in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library in Beverly Hills, Calif. You can preview the film by Clicking Here.
So if you think you have something of a state championship that could be utilized on a bigger platform and enjoyed by everyone, drop a note to [email protected]. If something needs to be converted to a more modern format, you’ll get a copy back, and the footage will be eventually viewable on the MHSAA’s YouTube channel.
To help guide your search, think in the following terms:
► Just about anything before 1990. But there are gaps during the 90s that need to be filled as well.
► Only Championship games and Semifinal games, unless something momentous occurred (like Richie Jordan’s 60-point game for Fennville against Bridgman in a Regional Semifinal in 1965, which is still an all-time tournament single-game record for boys basketball).
► For a list of what’s in the MHSAA archives prior to 2000 – Click Here. A long-term project is to get all of the games on the list and up to about 2010 uploaded to the YouTube channel. Most games from 2013-14 on can be viewed on the NFHS Network, and some games between 2010 and 2013 are available for purchase as DVDs from PrepFilms.com.
PHOTO Posing with the championship trophy after the 1975 Class D Football Final are (left to right): Forest Park tight end Bryan LaChapelle, quarterback Richard Mettlach, head coach Dick Mettlach and running back Bill Santilli.