Performance of the Week: Elk Rapids' Jake Garrow
November 13, 2026
Jake Garrow ♦ Elk Rapids
Senior ♦ Soccer
Elk Rapids defeated Williamston 1-0 in Saturday’s Division 3 championship match, clinching its first MHSAA Finals title on the pitch since 1998, and doing so with its 15th-straight shutout to end the season. Garrow has started the last four seasons as part of the varsity defense and been a catalyst during a shutout streak – which remains active and will enter next fall as the third-longest in MHSAA boys soccer history.
Garrow, an all-state second-team selection as a junior, also contributed three goals and four assists to the Elks’ 24-1-3 run this fall. He is planning to return to basketball court this winter after playing as a freshman but stepping away for the last two seasons, and he also plays golf in the spring and was part of Elk Rapids’ 13th-place finisher in Lower Peninsula Division 3 in June. Garrow next will attend Michigan State University and study finance.
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Past 2026-27 honorees
Nov. 6: Gabrielle Haudan, Ann Arbor Pioneer field hockey - Read
Oct. 30: Mason Crosby, South Lyon East tennis - Read
Oct. 23: Addilyn Duflo, Bath golf - Read
Oct. 16: Levi Lengemann, Imlay City tennis - Read
Oct. 9: Olivia Buford, Sterling Heights Stevenson swimming - Read
Oct. 2: Sophia McCollum, Muskegon Reeths-Puffer golf - Read
Sept. 25: Jenna Middleton, Kingsley volleyball - Read
Sept. 18: Caden Livermore, Grandville cross country - Read
Performance of the Week: Sterling Heights Stevenson's Olivia Buford
October 9, 2026
Olivia Buford ♦ Sterling Heights Stevenson
Senior ♦ Swimming
Buford was named Swimmer of the Meet at the Macomb County Championships after setting meet and Macomb L'Anse Creuse North pool records in the 50-yard freestyle (23.95 seconds) and also winning the 100 butterfly (58.75) by more than five seconds. Her 50 time ranks fifth on the state's top times list this season, and her butterfly time ranks 17th for that race.
A two-time MHSAA Finals racer, Buford finished 10th in the 50 a year ago in Lower Peninsula Division 1 and also qualified in the butterfly in 2025. She's qualified for both races again this fall and is about a second off securing a Finals cut time in the 100 backstroke as well. Buford is deciding where she'll attend college but would like to continue swimming and intends to pursue a degree in pre-medical studies with aspirations of becoming a doctor.
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Past 2026-27 honorees
Oct. 2: Sophia McCollum, Muskegon Reeths-Puffer - Read
Sept. 25: Jenna Middleton, Kingsley volleyball - Read
Sept. 18: Caden Livermore, Grandville cross country - Read
(Photos courtesy of the Sterling Heights Stevenson athletic department.)