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Watch Selection Sunday Show on FSD
October 16, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Selection Sunday officially turns the page from the regular season in Michigan high school football to the postseason, and the qualifiers and pairings for the 44th MHSAA Football Playoffs will be announced Sunday (Oct. 21) at 7 p.m. on FOX Sports Detroit.
In addition to being available on the primary FOX Sports Detroit channel on cable, the Selection Sunday Show also can be viewed on the internet through the FoxSportsDetroit.com Website, and on handheld devices and television streaming devices like Roku using the FOX Sports app.
The Selection Sunday Show kicks off this year’s Football Playoff coverage on FOX, which will include an opening night game on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS, Prep Zone games the first four weeks of the tournament on the FoxSportsDetroit.com Website and the FOX Sports app, the 8-Player Finals live online and delayed on FOX Sports Detroit and all eight games of the 11-Player Finals live on FOX Sports Detroit or FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. It’s all part of the second “Football Week In Michigan” promotion on FOX Sports.
But first, Week 9 games take place to conclude football’s regular season – and there’s plenty of live streaming boys soccer District and regular-season girls volleyball action this week on MHSAA.tv, being produced by participants of the School Broadcast Program.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network (Check this list online at MHSAA.com for updates throughout the week as SBP members schedule additional games.):
Tuesday - Oct. 16
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 4:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Salem at Howell - 4:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Napoleon at Manchester - 5 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Ovid-Elsie at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Negaunee Quad - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Flint at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Flint at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Carney-Nadeau at Norway - 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Salem at Howell - 6:25 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Ovid-Elsie at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Flint at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Napoleon at Manchester - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Carney-Nadeau at Norway - 7:15 PM
Wednesday - Oct. 17
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Essexville Garber at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Essexville Garber at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Essexville Garber at Frankenmuth - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Kalamazoo Central at Stevensville Lakeshore – 6:20 PM
Thursday - Oct. 18
- Freshman Football – TBA at Howell - 3:55 PM
- Freshman Football – TBA at Brighton - 4:20 PM
- Freshman Football - Freeland at Frankenmuth - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Football – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Football - Grand Blanc at Saline - 4:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 5 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 5 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 5 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 5 PM
- JV Football - Freeland at Frankenmuth - 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 6 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Calvin Christian at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 6 PM
- JV Football - Richmond at Ovid-Elsie - 6 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Powers North Central at Norway - 6 PM
- Swimming and Diving - Ann Arbor Huron at Saline - 6 PM
- JV Football - West Iron County at Norway - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - Ypsilanti at Manchester - 6:30 PM
- JV Football – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 6 PM
- JV Football - Grand Blanc at Saline - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - TBA at Howell – 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Calvin Christian at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Kingsford at Marquette - 7 PM
- Football – Ishpeming Westwood at Negaunee - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Powers North Central at Norway - 7:15 PM
Friday - Oct. 19
- Field Hockey - Chelsea at Novi - 5 PM
- JV Football – TBA at Howell - 6:45 PM
- Football - Mattawan at Stevensville Lakeshore – 6:55 PM
- Football - Lake Orion at Monroe - 7 PM
- Football – Mt. Pleasant at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- Football - Montrose at Pittsford - 7 PM
- Football - Frankenmuth at Freeland - 7 PM
- Football - Saline at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
Saturday - Oct. 20
- JV Girls Volleyball - Ski Valley Conference Championship - 8:30 AM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Ski Valley Conference Championship - 12 PM
- Boys Soccer District Final at Freeland - Noon
Tuesday - Oct. 23
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:15 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Three Rivers at Plainwell - 4:45 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Adrian at Saline - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Adrian at Saline - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Escanaba at Marquette - 7 PM
Potential Boys Regional Semifinal Soccer Games at Cedar Springs – 5 PM & 7 PM
All sporting events – live or delayed - 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.
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 will be 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.
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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.)