We should be excited about our programs and encouraged by their historical popularity and continuing growth. But clearly, we are not. In fact, we are a discouraged bunch.
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From all the reports of program reductions, it comes as a surprise to learn that high school sports participation increased during 2010-11 on both the national and state levels.
During a recent meeting of the MHSAA Student Advisory Council, I asked the group to help me answer again one of the most basic questions we must keep asking ourselves about school-based sports:
Mixing up the days and times for regular-season basketball games is doing a disservice to our students and their supporters.
I’m an idealist. That’s why I chose to work on this level of sports and not some other level; why I work in sports and not some other field.
. . . participation in MHSAA tournament sports topped 300,000 for the sixth consecutive year; and that while enrollments of MHSAA member schools dropped 2.7 percent for the past year, participation slipped only 0.8 percent.
Maximizing participation in school sports is far more important than maximizing college scholarship opportunities; but (current scholarship) statistics are disappointing.
I’m told the water levels of the Great Lakes are affected more by what we don’t see than what we do see, or what seems most apparent.
From the Director is the official MHSAA Blog which will touch on pertinent school sports topics periodically throughout the school year from various MHSAA Staff.