This Week in High School Sports: 9/21/22

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

September 21, 2022

This week's edition introduces this school year's MHSAA/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Awards, presents Game Balls to standouts in boys soccer, girls swimming and football; explains how the clock counts time differently for soccer at the high school level, and tells the Title IX story of graduated Marquette skier Maddy Stern. 

MI Student AidThe 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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Past editions

Sept. 14: MHSAA record books, Detroit Renaissance's Kaila Jackson - Listen
Sept. 7:
Sports Participation rebounding, Paw Paw's Paige Miller - Listen
Aug. 31:
Michigan Power Ratings and soccer seeding, Fenton's Gracie Olsen - Listen
Aug. 24:
Redesigned MHSAA.com, key dates and how to watch football in 2022 - Listen

This Week in High School Sports: 9/8/17

September 8, 2017

This latest edition of "This Week In High School Sports" features Watervliet football quarterback Zach Pickens, who passed for five touchdowns and ran for four more last week against Buchanan; passes out Game Balls to Lincoln Alcona boys soccer goalie Connor McCoy and Alexis Carras from the girls golf team at Midland Dow and closes with a commentary on a recent National Federation resolution designating fall Friday night as “High School Football Night” in America.

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
September 1: Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart girls cross country, correcting a report on the health of Michigan high school football - Listen
August 25: 2016-17 head injury report, return of official Steve Johnson - Listen