Performance of the Week: Bay City John Glenn's Asher Clark
October 4, 2024
Asher Clark ♦ Bay City John Glenn
Junior ♦ Soccer
The Bobcats’ junior striker put together a dominating day in helping John Glenn through a historic run at the Swartz Creek Invitational. Clark scored a combined six goals with eight assists as his team defeated Perry 8-0, Swartz Creek 6-0 and Chesaning 3-0 to move to 18-0-2 this season – with the 18th win setting the team’s single-season record.
John Glenn is up to 21-0-2 after its regular-season finale Thursday against North Branch, an 8-0 win during which Clark had six goals and one assist. The Bay City Times reported that Clark has 47 goals this fall, six shy of the single-season school record set in 2008 by Ty Richards. Clark also plays basketball for the Bobcats and is hoping to continue his soccer career at the college level.
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Previous 2024-25 honorees
Sept. 26: Campbell Flynn, Farmington Hills Mercy volleyball - Report
Sept. 19: TJ Hansen, Freeland cross country - Report
Sept. 12: Jordan Peters, Grayling soccer - Report
Sept. 6: Gabe Litzner, Sault Ste. Marie cross country - Report
Aug. 30: Grace Slocum, Traverse City St. Francis golf - Report
Performance of the Week: Battle Creek Harper Creek's Ella Laupp
November 14, 2025
Ella Laupp ♦ Battle Creek Harper Creek
Sophomore ♦ Swimming
Laupp won the 200-yard freestyle in a school record 1:56.54 and the 500 in 5:21.86, and also swam on winning 200 medley (1:55.26) and 400 freestyle (3:44.79) relays as Harper Creek won the Southwestern & Central Conference championship meet – locking up the program’s first league title since 1983. Laupp’s 200 free time ranks 30th on the state’s “top times” list for all divisions and fourth in Lower Peninsula Division 3 this fall.
After finishing fifth in the 200 and eighth in the 100 freestyle at the MHSAA LPD3 Finals as a freshman, Laupp should score well again at next weekend’s meet; her best 500 time this season (5:15.84) ranks third on the LPD3 top times list and 29th statewide, and she also ranks sixth in LPD3 with a top 100 free of 53.53. Laupp first broke the school’s 200 freestyle record as a freshman and also owns the school record in the 500 after earlier this season surpassing the previous best posted by Lindy Maroney in 1987; Maroney went on to international fame and swam solo across the English Channel in 1991.
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Previous 2025-26 honorees
Nov. 7: Hunter Eaton, Charlevoix cross country - Report
Oct. 31: Stephen Gollapalli, Lansing Christian tennis - Report
Oct. 23: Talya Schreiber, Pickford cross country - Report
Oct. 16: Avery Manning, Dexter golf - Report
Oct. 9: Brady Van Laecke, Hudsonville football - Report
Oct. 2: Sarah Giroux, Flat Rock volleyball - Report
Sept. 25: Sam Schumacher, Portage Central tennis - Report
Sept. 18: Kaylee Mitzel, Saline field hockey - Report
Sept. 11: Natasza Dudek, Ann Arbor Pioneer cross country - Report
Sept. 4: Kate Posey, Big Rapids golf - Report
(Photos submitted by the Laupp family.)