Grayling Plays On as Healing Continues

December 15, 2014

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The Grayling community was rocked by a two-vehicle collision in 2013 that resulted in the deaths of a coach, a golfer and another passenger in the other vehicle, as well as numerous serious injuries, while the boys golf team was driving to a tournament. 

As the community began to heal, the team played the rest of the 2013 season for classmates who could not. Last spring, more than 30 golfers came out as the team fell just one place short of making the MHSAA Finals but sent an individual, Jake Hinkle, to the Lower Peninsula Division 3 tournament at Grand Valley State University.  

In a few short months, Grayling's boys golf team will again begin the journey to play at the Finals as a team, backed by a community that continues to rally. 

The NBC Golf Channel tells this incredible story below:

Today in the MHSAA: 9/14/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 14, 2026

1. CROSS COUNTRY The Ann Arbor Pioneer girls and Northville boys won Spartan Invitational Elite championships, among eight varsity title winners total – Athletic.net

2. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Division 2 No. 3 Kingsley finished 5-0 to win its invitational, and Jenna Middleton reached 2,000 career kills – Traverse City Record-Eagle

3. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 10 Morley Stanwood came back from losing the first set to win the next two against Spring Lake and claim its invitational – Big Rapids News

4. CROSS COUNTY Reed City’s girls and boys teams swept Ferris State Ray Helsing Bulldog Invitational titles – Cadillac News

5. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Division 1 No. 7 Grand Haven downed Sparta, Stevensville Lakeshore, Grandville and Zeeland East to win its invitational for the third-straight season – Grand Haven Tribune

6. BOYS SOCCER Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker defeated Birch Run, Pinconning and Saginaw Nouvel Catholic Central to win its Mark Weidman Invitational for the third-straight season – Huron Daily Tribune

7. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 10 Onekama won all 12 sets and defeated Mason County Eastern in the final to win its invitational – Manistee News Advocate

8. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Macomb Lutheran North finished 5-0 to win the Fraser Tournament, downing Fraser in the final – Macomb Daily

9. CROSS COUNTRY The Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker boys team was among winners at the Bad Axe Hatchet Invitational – Huron Daily Tribune

10. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Bay City John Glenn won the silver bracket title at the Mitten Bay Classic – Bay City Times