Live Finals Play On at MHSAA.TV
March 4, 2014
Another full weekend of live MHSAA Finals video will be available on the MHSAA.TV website this week with coverage of Girls Gymnastics, Ice Hockey and Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Championships.
The championship coverage will be complimented by Student Broadcast Program on-demand productions of Boys Basketball Districts and Girls Basketball Regionals. Check the MHSAA.TV website for daily schedule updates.
Live streaming this week begins at 5 p.m. Thursday (March 6) with the first of two Division 2 Semifinal games in the Ice Hockey Tournament. Division 3 and 1 Semifinals follow on Friday (March 7), with the Finals on Saturday (March 8).
Girls Gymnastics coverage begins Friday at 2 p.m. with the Team Finals competition at Plymouth High School and will be followed Saturday with the Individual Finals at noon. Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming and Diving coverage begins at noon Saturday at three locations, with the consolation and championship heat in each swimming event plus the final round of the diving.
The continued Gymnastics, Hockey and Swimming coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV, and online viewers can catch every weekend of action for one low cost of $14.95.
Also available on-demand this week on MHSAA.TV are every round from last week's Individual Wrestling Finals plus a host of Girls Basketball District games, Hockey Regional games and boys basketball games from the final week of that regular season.
Here's a look at those listings, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
- Haslett vs. East Lansing
- Comstock Park vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
- Hillman vs. Posen
- Lowell vs. Greenville
- Ada Forest Hills Eastern vs. Grand Rapids Wellspring
- Haslett vs. Okemos
- Mio vs. Houghton Lake
- Grand Rapids Northview vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
- Lansing Waverly vs. DeWitt
- Grand Rapids West Catholic vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
- Tawas vs. Lincoln Alcona
- Grand Rapids Catholic Central vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
- DeWitt vs. Haslett
- Greenville vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
- Houghton Lake vs. Lincoln Alcona
Hockey
- Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Auburn Hills Avondale
- Escanaba vs. Negaunee
- Calumet vs. Hancock
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Auburn Hills Avondale
- Painesdale-Jeffers vs. Hancock
- Marquette vs. Escanaba
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett
Boys Basketball
- Lakeview vs. Morley-Stanwood
- Comstock Park vs. Jenison
- Cedar Springs vs. Sparta
- Plainwell vs. Parchment
- Petoskey vs. Boyne City
- Cheboygan vs. Charlevoix
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Waverly
- Watervliet vs. Saugatuck
- Houghton Lake vs. Harrison
- Calumet vs. Escanaba
- Fairview vs. Rogers City
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson offers some little known facts about the MHSAA Girls and Boys Basketball Tournaments - Did You Know?
U.P. Swim & Dive Finals on MHSAA.tv
February 17, 2015
By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director
The Winter Championship Season on MHSAA.tv begins this weekend with two days of live coverage of the Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals at Marquette High School.
The Diving Finals take place Friday (Feb. 20), beginning at 2:30 p.m., followed by the Swimming Finals on Saturday (Feb. 21), starting at 10 a.m. The events are available on a subscription basis: $9.95 for a Day Pass and $14.95 for a Month Pass.
The purchase of a Month Pass during the U.P. Swimming & Diving Finals, for example, would allow viewing through the Girls Basketball Semifinals on March 18-19 and also allow access to the Team and Individual Wrestling Finals, the Girls Competitive Cheer Finals, the Ice Hockey Semifinals and Finals, the Girls Gymnastics Finals, the Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Finals.
Basketball contests dominate the content this week for School Broadcast Program members, which will again have cameras at over 40 sporting events.
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.
Here’s the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to cover varsity competition over the next week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv. The following events will have live streaming video unless otherwise indicated:
Tuesday, February 17
Boys Basketball – L’Anse at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Houghton at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Covenant Christian at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Ann Arbor Huron at Haslett, 7 p.m. (HD)
Boys Basketball – Mio at Rogers City, 7 p.m. (Video On Demand following event)
Girls Basketball – Lansing Everett at East Lansing, 7 p.m. (VOD)
Boys Basketball – Posen at AuGres-Sims, 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Coloma at Plainwell, 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday, February 18
Boys Basketball – Fife Lake Forest Area at Onaway, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Central Lake at Mancelona, 7 p.m.
Thursday, February 19
Ice Hockey – Negaunee at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Hillman at Rogers City, 7 p.m. (VOD)
Girls Basketball – Akron-Fairgrove at Pinconning, 7 p.m.
Friday, February 20
Swimming & Diving – Upper Peninsula Diving Finals at Marquette, 2:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Flint Beecher at Montrose, 5:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Allendale at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Rogers City at Hillman, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Flint Beecher at Montrose, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Fairview at Posen, 7 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Birmingham Brother Rice at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood, 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Sturgis at Plainwell, 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Allendale at Comstock Park, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 21
Swimming & Diving – Upper Peninsula Swimming Finals at Marquette, 10 a.m.
Ice Hockey – Warren DeLaSalle at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood, 5:20 p.m.
Monday, February 23
Girls Basketball – Fairview at Hillman, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Hale at Rogers City, 7 p.m. (VOD)
Tuesday, February 24
Girls Basketball – Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose, 5:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Painesdale-Jeffers at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Posen at Rogers City, 7 p.m. (VOD)
Boys Basketball – Oscoda at AuGres-Sims, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose, 7:15 p.m.
Live stats of select basketball games also are available on MHSAA.tv. Check out the MHSAA.tv website on game night to see which schools are streaming live stats, or stop by to view stats following games on an On-Demand basis. A Day Pass to view live stats is $1.95. All sporting events – live or delayed – are available on MHSAA.tv on a subscription basis for their first 72 hours online.
A portion of each subscription is returned to the school originating the broadcast. Video subscriptions run $9.95 for a Day Pass and $14.95 for a Month Pass. Some schools also are offering Annual Passes at a discounted rate. All sporting events become available for free On-Demand viewing three days after they have been posted.
To view all of the recent School Broadcast Program productions, go to MHSAA.tv, click On-Demand on the nav bar of the left side of the page, and on the Filters tab at the top of next page, click on All States and then select Michigan.
Also available below is an SBP highlights package from the past week, including a 51-47 win in the girls game and a 55-48 decision in the boys game over Haslett to deadlock the two schools at the top of the Red Division in both genders.
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.