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Video 2/10/16: Girls, Boys Basketball
February 10, 2016
By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director
Each week, MHSAA.tv features highlights of events produced by schools involved in the MHSAA School Broadcast Program.
This week's package includes clips from the Coopersville/Comstock Park girls and Athens/Concord and St. Johns/Mount Pleasant boys basketball games.
A game which will have a big impact on the Big North Conference girls basketball race heads the slate of events which can been seen live over the next week on a subscription basis on MHSAA.tv, produced by students involved in the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program.
Alpena will host Traverse City Central at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17, and heading into this week’s play, the Wildcats have a half-game lead on the Trojans in the Big North standings. Alpena begins the week at 8-1 in the BNC and is 11-5 overall, while Central is 7-1 in league play and 8-6 in all games. Alpena’s only league loss came at Traverse City Central on Jan. 8, 51-27.
In its seventh 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.
The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
All sporting events – Live or On-Demand – are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion
Here’s the schedule of events School Broadcast Program members plan to stream this week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv. On-Demand listings may be available as soon as one hour following an event’s completion.
Wednesday, February 10
- Holt at Haslett – Girls Gymnastics – 6:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Ishpeming Westwood at Negaunee – Boys Basketball – 7:30 p.m. – LIVE
Thursday, February 11
- Corunna at Montrose – Freshman Boys Basketball – 3:55 p.m. – LIVE
- Corunna at Montrose – JV Girls Basketball – 5:25 p.m. – LIVE
- Belding at Comstock Park – JV Girls Basketball – 5:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Okemos at East Lansing – MHSAA Div. 1 Team Wrestling District Semifinal – 5:30 p.m. – On-Demand
- Belding at Comstock Park – JV Boys Basketball – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- MHSAA Div. 3 Team Wrestling District Semifinal at Pinconning – 6 p.m. – On-Demand
- Corunna at Montrose – JV Boys Basketball – 6:55 p.m. – LIVE
- Indian River Inland Lakes at Onaway – Girls Basketball – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Negaunee at Calumet – Ice Hockey – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- MHSAA Div. 1 Team Wrestling District Final at East Lansing – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
Friday, February 12
- Lansing Sexton at East Lansing – Girls Basketball – 6 p.m. – On-Demand
- St. Johns at Haslett – Girls Basketball – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Otsego at Plainwell – Girls Basketball – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Vicksburg at Dowagiac – Boys Basketball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Cadillac at Alpena – Ice Hockey – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Otsego at Plainwell – Boys Basketball – 7:15 p.m. – LIVE
- Port Huron Northern at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – Ice Hockey – 7:15 p.m. – LIVE
- West Iron County at Calumet – Boys Basketball – 7:20 p.m. – LIVE
- Lansing Sexton at East Lansing – Boys Basketball – 7:30 p.m. – On-Demand
- St. Johns at Haslett – Boys Basketball – 7:30 p.m. – LIVE
Saturday, February 13
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Detroit U-D Jesuit – Ice Hockey – 5 p.m. – LIVE
- MHSAA Div. 3 Individual Wrestling District Finals at Montrose – 4 p.m. (Aprox.) – LIVE
Monday, February 15
- L’Anse at Negaunee – Ice Hockey – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Tuesday, February 16
- Grand Rapids Covenant Christian at Comstock Park – Freshman Girls Basketball – 4 p.m. - LIVE
- Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose - JV Boys Basketball – 4:25 p.m.
- Grand Rapids Covenant Christian at Comstock Park – JV Girls Basketball – 5:30 p.m. - LIVE
- Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose – JV Girls Basketball – 5:55 p.m. – LIVE
- Gladstone at Negaunee – JV Boys Basketball – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Grand Rapids Covenant Christian at Comstock Park – Girls Basketball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Lansing Catholic at Haslett – Boys Basketball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion – Boys Basketball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Gaylord St. Mary’s at Onaway – Girls Basketball – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Houghton at Calumet - Ice Hockey – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Wednesday, February 17
- Traverse City Central at Alpena – JV Girls Basketball – 5:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Traverse City Central at Alpena – Girls Basketball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
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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.)