With her trim, toned build, distinctive mohawk hairstyle and confident stare, Louise Ogadinma looks nothing like she did a decade ago. Back then, as she puts it, she was an “unathletic” senior at Detroit Renaissance High School whose only extra-circular interest was choir.
The moment Joey Spencer had envisioned since he was in kindergarten was drawing near.
During the past decade, Kearsley High School has earned a well-deserved reputation for being one of the state’s most fiercely competitive girls bowling programs.
St. Clair Shores Falcons hockey coach, Jeff Jackson, had watched team captain, Ron Rolston, mature and grow both on and off the ice during his two seasons with the team. The teenager’s affinity for the sport, along with the manner in which he conducted himself, impressed Jackson and in the early spring of 1986, he felt the time had come to express that to the Fenton, MI native.
As Steve Schmidt reflects on the remarkable men’s basketball program he has built at Mott Community College, evidence of that success adorns the wall behind him.
Activity surrounding the first day of Grand Blanc’s eighth-grade football practice came to a virtual standstill when Alicia Woollcott entered the room.
The youngest players seem almost too small for their bodies to support a helmet and pads, but their passion for football is unmistakable. The Great Lakes Recreational Football League (GLRFL), with players as young as seven, kicked off its inaugural season this fall. Games feature the same sights (thrilling plays, vocal coaches, enthusiastic cheerleaders), sounds (smack of pads, shrill of whistles) and smells (concession-stand fare, freshly-cut grass) as typical high school games – only on a smaller scale. The size of the hearts of those involved, however, is the same.
Lacing up a pair of boxing gloves and stepping into a ring was the furthest thing from an 11-year-old Claressa Shields’ mind. She was too busy dealing with a difficult, at times transient childhood, and just trying to fit in at the Beecher School District’s Dailey Elementary.
From the time the gates open in the spring through its final race in the fall, the Richfield Park BMX track in Davison is abuzz with activity.
On an ideal evening for high school football in September of 2011, Woodberry Forest School junior quarterback, Jacob Rainey, took a snap during a pre-season scrimmage in Oakton, Virginia and as he scrambled for yardage, suffered a horrific injury.
The 61st Greater Flint Olympian and CANUSA Games kicked off on July 11 with official Opening Ceremonies at Northwestern High School’s Guy V. Houston Stadium. All Flint and Genesee County residents were invited to attend the festivities which began with a Physical Fitness Walk at 9:30am, followed by an official opening of the Games, a break for lunch, and an Olympian Games Field Day and Olympian Sports Skills event.
Several barriers, or at least what he was told were going to be barriers, were thrown in Chris Wilson’s way as he fought to realize his dream of playing in the National Football League.
