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: 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.)