This Week in High School Sports: 2/12/19
February 12, 2019
This week's show features Midland Dow basketball standout Molly Davis, hands out Game Balls to Ann Arbor Pioneer basketball's Asaria Turman and the Pewamo-Westphalia girls and boys basketball teams, addresses why officials choose to officiate and closes with a look back at Mio legend Jay Smith and his community's support of a record-setting career.
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
February 5: Alpena basketball's Chris DeRocher, sportsmanship shown on the court - Listen
January 29: Flint Kearsley bowler Imari Blond, Lansing Sexton's 1959 boys basketball run - Listen
January 22: Warren Woods-Tower wrestling, poor sportsmanship faced by officials - Listen
January 15: East Kentwood boys basketball, reflections from visiting a small-town gym - Listen
January 8: Niles Brandywine wrestling inspiration, parental sportsmanship - Listen
January 1: Unionville-Sebewaing three-sport star Rylee Zimmer, instructions for educational athletics - Listen
December 25: St. Ignace student official Jackson Ingalls, values of high school sports - Listen
December 18: Eastern Thumb Area co-op hockey, consequences of football playoff expansion - Listen
December 11: Battle of the Fans VIII, MHSAA.tv's growing list of broadcasts - Listen
December 4: New officials in southeastern Michigan, what college coaches are looking for in recruits - Listen
November 27: Defensive performances from 11-Player Football Finals, experiences at Ford Field - Listen
November 20: 8-player football champions Morrice and Rapid River, power of giving thanks - Listen
November 13: Port Huron Northern football, broadcasting one of the busiest championship weekends of the MHSAA school year - Listen
November 6: Three-time cross country champs, MIS as LP XC Finals home - Listen
October 30: Calumet football, changes to the MHSAA Transfer Rule - Listen
October 23: Jackson High football, "Football Week in Michigan" - Listen
October 16: Selection Sunday football primer, past playoff expansion - Listen
October 9: Pickford football, teams that finished undefeated/untied/unscored upon on the gridiron - Listen
October 2: Grand Rapids official Dolly Konwinski, "You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me" on a federal court case made by the parents of a kid who didn’t make the cut - Listen
September 25: Bronson volleyball's Kiera Lasky, the real blue-chip participants in high school sports - Listen
September 18: Hanover-Horton runner Judy Rector, countering a growing shortage of high school game officials - Listen
September 11: Alpena soccer coach Tim Storch, balancing interests of all high school athletes - Listen
September 4: Radio stations celebrating 77 years of high school sports broadcasts, and radio's importance in educational athletics - Listen
August 28: Forest Hills Central football's Tate Hallock, keeping perspective amid changing times - Listen
August 21: Lansing Everett football coach Mike Smith, MHSAA executive director transition - Listen
Did you lose this medal?
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
August 19, 2013
It’s not quite a needle in a haystack. But it could turn into a great story.
This 1984 MHSAA Regional medal, pictured above, was found recently in Massachusetts with a metal detector. The finder, coincidentally a former collegiate track and field coach, hopes to return the medal to its rightful owner.
Doing so might not be as difficult as it sounds, but we’ll need help from our friends in the track and field community.
Here’s what we know:
- The medal was received for finishing fourth in the 800 meters at a Class B Regional in 1984.
- The Regional had to be in the Lower Peninsula, because Class A and Class B were and continue to be combined in the Upper Peninsula.
- There were 10 Class B Regionals during the 1984 season, hosted by Sturgis, Parma Jackson County Western, Chelsea, Warren Fitzgerald, Linden, Corunna, Ovid-Elsie, Fremont, Greenville and Gaylord.
- So that means the medal could have only 20 possible owners.
Unfortunately, we do not have Regional results from the 1980s on file in our office. That’s where our helpers come in.
If you have results, or any idea who won this medal, please contact me at [email protected]. If we can connect medal with owner, we’ll tell much more of this story – including that of the coach who found it and made the call to start its return trip home.