This Week in High School Sports: 10/18/23
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
October 18, 2023
This week's edition previews the selection of qualifiers and drawing of brackets for the 2023 MHSAA Football Playoffs, presents Game Balls to high achievers in soccer, volleyball and football; and highlights Bear Lake football coach Sam Mullet, who recently became the first woman in MHSAA history to lead a varsity football team to victory.
The 5-minute program each week includes feature stories from MHSAA.com or network affiliates, along with "Be the Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating.
"This Week in High School Sports" is powered by MI Student Aid, a part of the Office of Postsecondary Financial Planning located within the Michigan Department of Treasury.
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Previous Editions
Oct. 11: Upper Peninsula soccer, MHSAA sports participation excels nationally - Listen
Oct. 4: Jackson Lumen Christi's Herb Brogan, MHSAA Sportsmanship Summits - Listen
Sept. 24: All-woman football officiating crew, Powers North Central's record winning streak ends - Listen
Sept. 21: 35th MHSAA/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Awards, Grass Lake QB Brayden Lape - Listen
Sept. 14: Athletic director education, MHSAA video library - Listen
Sept. 7: Adjustments to 11-player football, boys soccer Finals schedules - Listen
Aug. 31: New out-of-state opponents rules, football record book updates - Listen
Aug. 24: MHSAA.com coverage ramps up, "Made in Michigan" tells us where they are now - Listen
This Week in High School Sports: 3/19/19
March 19, 2019
This week's show highlights the buzzer-beating shot by Ypsilanti Lincoln in its Division 1 boys basketball championship game victory over Detroit U-D Jesuit, hands out Game Balls to New Haven's Romeo Weems and Detroit Edison's Rickea Jackson, discusses use of instant replay in high school basketball and closes with an example of keeping proper perspective in educational athletics.
The 5-minute program, powered by MI Student Aid, leads off each week with feature stories from around the state from the MHSAA’s Second Half or network affiliates. "Be The Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating, comes in the middle of the show and is followed by a closing MHSAA "Perspective."
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Past editions
March 12: Lower Peninsula Division 1 Boys Swimming & Diving Finals, 1986 Class B boys basketball finish - Listen
March 5: Bronson bowling champions, Individual Wrestling Finals impressions - Listen
February 26: Lowell wrestling, basis for MHSAA's broadcast regulations - Listen
February 19: Traverse City Bay Reps hockey's Jake Stevenson, MHSAA Basketball Finals rematches - Listen
February 12: Midland Dow basketball's Molly Davis, small-town support for the Mio Thunderbolt - Listen
February 5: Alpena basketball's Chris DeRocher, sportsmanship shown on the court - Listen
January 29: Flint Kearsley bowler Imari Blond, Lansing Sexton's 1959 boys basketball run - Listen
January 22: Warren Woods-Tower wrestling, poor sportsmanship faced by officials - Listen
January 15: East Kentwood boys basketball, reflections from visiting a small-town gym - Listen
January 8: Niles Brandywine wrestling inspiration, parental sportsmanship - Listen
January 1: Unionville-Sebewaing three-sport star Rylee Zimmer, instructions for educational athletics - Listen
December 25: St. Ignace student official Jackson Ingalls, values of high school sports - Listen
December 18: Eastern Thumb Area co-op hockey, consequences of football playoff expansion - Listen
December 11: Battle of the Fans VIII, MHSAA.tv's growing list of broadcasts - Listen
December 4: New officials in southeastern Michigan, what college coaches are looking for in recruits - Listen
November 27: Defensive performances from 11-Player Football Finals, experiences at Ford Field - Listen
November 20: 8-player football champions Morrice and Rapid River, power of giving thanks - Listen
November 13: Port Huron Northern football, broadcasting one of the busiest championship weekends of the MHSAA school year - Listen
November 6: Three-time cross country champs, MIS as LP XC Finals home - Listen
October 30: Calumet football, changes to the MHSAA Transfer Rule - Listen
October 23: Jackson High football, "Football Week in Michigan" - Listen
October 16: Selection Sunday football primer, past playoff expansion - Listen
October 9: Pickford football, teams that finished undefeated/untied/unscored upon on the gridiron - Listen
October 2: Grand Rapids official Dolly Konwinski, "You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me" on a federal court case made by the parents of a kid who didn’t make the cut - Listen
September 25: Bronson volleyball's Kiera Lasky, the real blue-chip participants in high school sports - Listen
September 18: Hanover-Horton runner Judy Rector, countering a growing shortage of high school game officials - Listen
September 11: Alpena soccer coach Tim Storch, balancing interests of all high school athletes - Listen
September 4: Radio stations celebrating 77 years of high school sports broadcasts, and radio's importance in educational athletics - Listen
August 28: Forest Hills Central football's Tate Hallock, keeping perspective amid changing times - Listen
August 21: Lansing Everett football coach Mike Smith, MHSAA executive director transition - Listen