[email protected] posted on February 14, 2017 14:25
Contact: John Johnson
517.332.5046 or [email protected]
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Feb. 14 – The first of six straight weekends of live coverage of MHSAA winter sports championships begins this week on MHSAA.tv at the Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals at Marquette High School.
The Finals in Diving will take place beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday (Feb. 17). On Saturday (Feb. 18), coverage of the Swimming events begins at 10 a.m.
Here’s the week-by-week NFHS Network coverage schedule of MHSAA winter Championships:
- Feb. 17-18 – Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals
- Feb. 24-25 – Team Dual Wrestling Quarterfinals-Semifinals-Finals
- March 2-4 – Individual Wrestling Finals
- March 3-4 – Girls Competitive Cheer Finals
- March 9-11 – Ice Hockey Semifinals-Finals
- March 11 – Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Finals
- March 14 – Girls Basketball Quarterfinals
- March 16-17 – Girls Basketball Semifinals
- March 21 – Boys Basketball Quarterfinals
- March 23-24 – Boys Basketball Semifinals
A $9.95 subscription on the NFHS Network is good for 30 days of viewing live coverage of MHSAA.tv and a variety of high school championships across the country. All events are available for free, on-demand viewing three days after they have been played.
New to the schedule this year are plans to live stream all 32 of the Quarterfinal games in Girls and Boys Basketball Quarterfinals games in March, many of which will be produced by members of the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program.
“The idea of streaming 16 games in a single day has been well received the past few years during the Football Semifinals, and we think a lot of fans who follow high school basketball in general, but who would not be able to travel to a tournament center, will take advantage of this opportunity,” said John Johnson, MHSAA Communications Director.
With the winter regular season winding down, there’s plenty of School Broadcast Program generated content coming in over the next seven days on MHSAA.tv with impacting conference races.
Hillman can clinch an outright title in the North Star League Big Dipper Division with a girls basketball win at Rogers City on Thursday (Feb. 16); and Birmingham Brother Rice can do the game with a win over Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood in the Michigan Interscholastic Hockey League’s North Division when those two teams meet on Friday (Feb. 17).
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of live video streams available being produced by SBP members (All times Eastern Standard):
Tuesday, Feb. 14
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Sparta at Comstock Park, 4 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Sparta at Comstock Park, 5:30 p.m.
- JV Girls Basketball – Millington at Otisville LakeVille, 5:25 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Mio at Rogers City, 6 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Grand Ledge at East Lansing, 6 p.m. (On-Demand Only)
- Girls Basketball – Millington at Otisville LakeVille, 6:45 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Boyne City at Charlevoix, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Sparta at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern at Cedar Springs, 7 p.m.
- Ice Hockey – Houghton at Calumet, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Mio at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Saginaw at Midland Dow, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – L’Anse at Calumet, 7:20 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Grand Ledge at East Lansing, 7:30 p.m. (On-Demand Only)
Wednesday, Feb. 15
Thursday, Feb. 16
Friday, Feb. 17
- Diving – Upper Peninsula Finals @ Marquette, 2 p.m.
- Freshman Basketball – Greenville at Comstock Park, 4 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Cedar Springs, 5:30 p.m.
- JV Boys Basketball – Greenville at Comstock Park, 5:30 p.m.
- Ice Hockey – Cadillac at Alpena, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Oxford at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Greenville at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Boys Basketball – Traverse City West at Alpena, 7 p.m.
- Girls Basketball – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Cedar Springs, 7 p.m.
- Ice Hockey – Birmingham Brother Rice at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, 7:15 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 18
Tuesday, Feb. 21
Be sure to check the Upcoming Events page at MHSAA.tv for schedule additions every day.
In its eighth year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events; with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics.
The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
All sporting events – live or delayed - are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
Fans can also access scores of games in-progress on the NFHS Network website via ScoreStream. Click on the Scores button in the upper right corner.
A weekly staple on the MHSAA.tv website and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube is back for another year with highlights of selected games last week produced by members of the Association’s School Broadcast Program.
This week’s highlights package includes matches from a Division 3 Individual Wrestling District at Montrose; a boys basketball game with Farmington Hills Harrison at Center Line; and a girls basketball game pitting Kingsford at Marquette.
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
The MHSAA Network’s weekly radio show/podcast This Week In High School Sports, now has over 85 radio stations and audio webcast outlets as part of their weekly prep coverage. This week’s show features a report Jacara Thompson, a girls basketball player at Swartz Creek; discusses Recruiting New Officials in its Be The Referee segment, and finishes with an MHSAA Perspective on coach-player relationships in high school sports.
This Week In High School Sports is posted on Tuesday each week by Noon, and can be found on the home page of the MHSAA Website. You can listen to this week’s show and view a list of outlets carrying the program by Clicking Here. Be The Referee is also posted as a standalone podcast on Tuesday each week, and can be found on the home page of the MHSAA Website. You can listen to this week’s message by Clicking Here.
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