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Skip the lines: Get Finals Tickets Here
February 28, 2012
Avoid lines at the ticket window by ordering and downloading your MHSAA Finals E-tickets for cheer, individual wrestling, girls and boys basketball from our partner vendor web sites.
Hockey, Cheer and Girls Basketball Finals are on sale now, with Boys Basketball Finals tickets going on sale at 10 a.m. March 5. See below on how to order each:
- Girls Basketball Finals tickets are on sale either online or via phone. Tickets can be ordered online by clicking this Breslin Center Box Office link or over the phone by calling (800) 968-2737. Tickets cost $8, with a $3 service charge applied to each order. All girls basketball seats are general admission. The Girls Basketball Semifinals are March 15-16, with all Four Finals on March 17.
- Boys Basketball Finals tickets go on sale via the Breslin Center Box Office on March 5. Tickets can be ordered online by clicking this Breslin Center Box Office link or over the phone by calling (800) 968-2737. As with girls basketball, tickets cost $8, with a $3 service charge applied to each order. However, Boys Basketball Semifinals and Finals seats are reserved in Breslin’s lower bowl, with general admission for the upper deck. The Boys Basketball Semifinals are March 22-23, with all four Finals on March 24.
- Cheer tickets are available via online vendor TicketLeap. They cost $7 – plus a 97-cent processing fee per ticket – for each of the four sessions, with a separate ticket required for entry to each. The Division 1 Final is 6 p.m. Friday at the Grand Rapids Delta Plex, with Division 2 at 10 a.m. Saturday and followed that day by Division 4 at 2 p.m. and Division 3 at 6 p.m. Cheer online ticket sales end at 4 p.m. Friday. The paper E-ticket must be presented at the gate.
- Hockey tickets are available via online vendor TicketLeap. They cost $6 per Semifinal session and $7 per Final session, plus the 97-cent processing fee per ticket. Each division’s Semifinals and each of the three Finals count as separate sessions. The Division 2 Semifinals begin at 5 p.m. March 8 at Plymouth’s Compuware Arena, with the Division 3 Semifinals at noon March 9 and Division 1 at 6 p.m. that day. The Division 2 Final is at 10 a.m. March 10, followed by Division 3 at 2 p.m. and Division 1 at 6 p.m. The paper E-ticket must be presented at the gate. Hockey online ticket sales end two hours before each session.
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Athletes: Get Ready to Beat the Heat
August 2, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
While this summer may have seemed to arrive late in many parts of Michigan, the warm and sunny weather over these last few weeks has provided another reminder that student-athletes must prepare for training in hot weather that traditionally accompanies the beginning of August as MHSAA member schools prepare to begin fall sports practices this month.
Each year, the MHSAA provides information to its member schools to help them prepare for hot weather practice and game conditions during the late summer and early fall. Practices for cross country, football, Lower Peninsula girls golf, boys soccer and Lower Peninsula boys and Upper Peninsula girls tennis can begin August 12, with volleyball and Lower Peninsula girls swimming & diving able to start August. 14.
The “Health & Safety” page of the MHSAA Website has a number of links to various publications and information including guidelines for acclimatization from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and recommendations on proper hydration from the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). The preseason publication Heat Ways also is available for download and includes valuable information on heat management in addition to requirements and resources regarding head injuries and sudden cardiac arrest.
The first days of formal practices in hot weather should be more for heat acclimatization than the conditioning of athletes, and practices in such conditions need planning to become longer and more strenuous over a gradual progression of time. Schools also must consider moving practices to different locations or different times of day, or change practice plans to include different activities depending on the conditions. Furthermore, football practice rules allow for only helmets to be worn during the first two days, only shoulder pads to be added on the third and fourth days, and full pads to not be worn until the fifth day of team practice.
The MHSAA advises student-athletes to make sure to hydrate all day long – beginning before practice, continuing during and also after practice is done. Water and properly-formulated sports drinks are the best choices for hydration, while energy drinks, high-carbohydrate fruit juices (greater than eight percent carb content), carbonated and caffeinated beverages are among those that should be avoided.
A number of member schools follow the MHSAA’s Model Policy for Managing Heat & Humidity, which while not mandated for member schools was adopted as a rule for MHSAA postseason competition in 2013. The plan directs schools to begin monitoring the heat index at the activity site once the air temperature reaches 80 degrees, and provides recommendations when the heat index reaches certain points, including ceasing activities when it rises above 104 degrees. (When the temperature is below 80 degrees, there is no combination of heat and humidity that will result in a need to curtail activity.) The model heat & humidity policy is outlined in a number of places on the MHSAA Website, including as part of Heat Ways.