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East Grand Rapids girls diving wins state title for second year in a row

November 22, 2010 Comments { 0 }

East Grand Rapids’ Olivia Kassouni won an indiviual diving state championship title along helping her team earn the Division 3 state team championship title. Kassouni and her teammates repeated as the Division 3 state champs by scoring 313 points. Cranbrook-Kingswood finished second with 224.5 points, and Milan was third with 159. Hamilton finished [...]

Haily VandePoel wins in the battle of the undefeated

October 25, 2010 Comments { 0 }

West Ottawa’s Haily VandePoel won first-place score of 255.20 in diving, just 15.35 points ahead of runner-up junior Taylor Wiercinski of Grandville-Kenowa Hills. VandePoel’s win helped West Ottawa earn a 180-129 victory. Read the full story with The Grand Rapids Press: “West Ottawa’s Haily VandePoel tops…”

West Catholic tops Catholic Central in swimming and diving

October 5, 2010 Comments { 0 }

The West Catholic girls swimming and diving team beat Catholic Central for the first time since the mid 1990′s. The final score for the rescheduled dual meet was 95-91. West Catholic’s Emily Price won the 200-meter and 500 freestyle, while Erica Wysocki topped the diving field. Jorgie Watson and Kristine Craven [...]

Abby VanHarn takes on double duty

September 17, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Grand Rapids Christian’s Freshman Abby VanHarn is a member of both theh diving team and the swimming team. She spends half of each practice working on improving her swimming speed. The rest of the time she spends improving her diving technique. Read the full story with The Grand Rapids Press: [...]

Michaela Rookus Brings Versatility to Hudsonville Swim Team

September 8, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Hudsonville junior, Michaela Rookus is captain on the girls swimming and diving team. Last year she earned Division 2 all-state honors in three different areas, 200-yard medley relay, 200 individual medley and 400 freestyle relay. Rookus is not like most swimmers, she is versatile and can swim any event you ask [...]

WMA takes attendance, as read by mostly runners

November 10, 2009 Comments { 2 }

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely: Regional final predictions, [...]