#SocialStudies v8.0

April 5, 2012

Happy Spring Break, #SocialStudies regulars!  It's been a quiet week in our office with many Lower Peninsula schools off all week -- but I still managed to dig up some web gems for your perusal. *Beach umbrella optional.

1. Fore real?

Oh, professional golfers. Do they even know? They can't possibly understand how difficult this game is for the rest of us; I look like a toddler aimlessly swinging a metal stick while teetering around well-shorn grass plateaus. 

The 2012 Masters Tournament tees off today -- and players in the field lurked around Augusta earlier this week, reading greens and testing the waters, if you will. One such tester? Martin Kaymer, who tees off second in this clip. I'd suggest watching the entire 37 seconds.


2. Floored by this performance

This woman is named Johanna Quaas, and she is 86 years old. Read that twice for effect. Here's her floor routine (yes, FLOOR ROUTINE!) at a gymnastics tournament called “Turnier Der Meister,” or Tournament of Masters, at the 2012 Cottbus World Cup in Germany.


3. Watch the guys who are supposed to be defending

In Iowa, it looks like mash-up sporting might be the next big thing. I think this play could be called a roll-out?


4. Moves like Stokkebroe

We opened with an octogenarian doing something amazing; and I think it's appropriate to bookend things with this little heart-breaker. William Stokkebroe is 2 years old, and wee man can flat-out shake it. Try not to smile: Dare you.


 As always -- if you find something worthy of us watching, send it over. Links, photos, stories ... whatever strikes your fancy that week. Make it part of our #SocialStudies!

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Records Fall, Titles Won on MHSAA.TV

October 14, 2013

A Genesee County record-breaking volleyball performance and a Lansing-area soccer championship game were just two of many highlights from last week's slate of events brought to MHSAA.TV by the School Broadcast Program. 

Montrose's Brooke Williams broke her school's career record of 996 kills and then recorded her 1,000th in the Rams 3-1 win over Flint Beecher, while East Lansing defeated Mason and then Holt for this season's Capital Area Activities Conference boys soccer title. See more on those below in this week's MHSAA.TV highlight reel, or watch any of these events in their entirety: 

  • Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Onaway volleyball
  • Flint Beecher vs. Montrose bolleyball
  • Calumet vs. L'Anse volleyball
  • Davison vs. Saginaw Arthur Hill volleyball
  • Hale vs. Hillman volleyball
  • Newberry vs. Gwinn volleyball
  • Posen vs. Rogers City volleyball
  • Sault Ste. Marie vs. Cheboygan volleyball
  • Calumet vs. Iron River West Iron County volleyball
  • Posen vs. Hillman volleyball
  • Lakeview vs. Ithaca boys soccer
  • East Lansing vs. Mason boys soccer
  • Cedar Springs vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern boys soccer
  • East Lansing vs. Holt boys soccer
  • Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Onaway football
  • Oscoda vs. Hillman football
  • Boyne City vs. Charlevoix football
  • Pellson vs. Indian River Inland Lakes football
  • Pickford vs. St. Ignace football
  • Fife Lake Forest Area vs. Central Lake football
  • Paw Paw vs. Plainwell football
  • Cedar Springs vs. Grand Rapids West Catholic football

MHSAA Perspective: Sportsmanship long has been a focus of the MHSAA and will endure in school sports despite challenges that arise - Sportsmanship Shall Endure