Contact:  John Johnson
517.332.5046 or [email protected]

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Dec. 17 –  A great holiday gift for that high school sports fan is a DVD of an MHSAA Championship event from this 2013 Fall season as well as past sports seasons through the PrepFilms.com website.

Sixty full game or highlights videos are available from this Fall in Cross Country, Football, Golf, Boys Soccer, Girls Swimming & Diving, Tennis and Girls Volleyball.  Most of the titles are the MHSAA Championship game action, but Semifinal games are available in Volleyball and 16 pre-Final events are available in Football.  Hundreds of titles from previous years are also available.

For more information, visit the PrepFilms.com website, or click the DVD tab at the top of the home page of the MHSAA.tv website.

CDs of the radio broadcast of Fall Finals in Football, Boys Soccer and Girls Volleyball; as well as Volleyball Semifinal matches, can be ordered from the MHSAANetwork.com website.  A large number of archived events from previous years are also available.

Each week, packages of highlights produced by schools in the  School Broadcast Program are featured on the MHSAA.tv website and the MHSAA YouTube Channel.

This week’s package of School Broadcast Program Highlights from the week of Dec. 10 includes the following events:

• Haslett at Mason – Boys Basketball
• Holton at Lakeview – Girls Basketball
• Marcellus at Watervliet – Boys Basketball

Here’s the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to cover games in the coming week, some of which will be available at MHSAA.tv shortly after each game’s conclusion (All games varsity and delayed unless noted):

• Hancock at Calumet – Ice Hockey – Tuesday
• Bangor at Watervliet – Boys Basketball – Tuesday – LIVE – 5:30 p.m.
• Johannesburg-Lewiston at Onaway – Boys Bakseball – Tuesday
• Whittemore-Prescott at Hillman – JV Girls Basketball – Tuesday
• Whittemore-Prescott at Hillman – Girls Basketball – Tuesday
• Newaygo at Lakeview – Boys Basketball - Tuesday
• Bangor at Watervliet – Girls Basketball – Tuesday – LIVE – 7:30 p.m.
• Gaylord St. Mary’s at Onaway – Boys Basketball – Thursday
• Wolverine at Hillman – Boys Basketball – Thursday
• Lake Linden-Hubbell at Calumet – Ice Hockey - Thursday

The School Broadcast Program, powered by PlayOn! Sports, is a platform which schools can utilize to reach members of their community about activities taking place in their buildings, providing recognition for students while at the same time giving them hands-on opportunities to gain broadcasting experience and providing schools an opportunity to realize additional revenues for their programs.

New to the School Broadcast Program as the Winter sports season begins is Escanaba High School, and returning is Watervliet High School.  Both schools are offering subscriptions to watch live sporting events as a way of minimizing their cost to participate in the program and to raise revenue for their athletic programs.

Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.

The network for the weekly radio commentary MHSAA Perspective – presented by the Michigan Army National Guard – has now grown to a total of 86 radio stations (80)  and audio webcast sites (6) across the state, generally during the local broadcasts of high school games.  The program runs for 30 weeks through the end of the winter sports season.  MHSAA Perspective can also be accessed from the home page of the MHSAA Website.  Visit the MHSAA Perspective page of the MHSAA Website for a complete list of network affiliates.

This week’s MHSAA Perspective is titled:  Second Step.  In this edition of Perspective, John Johnson talks about the second step the MHSAA is taking with regards to coaches being properly prepared to promote a healthy, safe environment for practice and competition. 

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