Archive for category: Sports

Kerrigan Baird Commits to GVSU Lacrosse

Kerrigan Baird Commits to GVSU Lacrosse

Junior Kerrigan Baird has long held a passion for lacrosse, joining the team her freshman year, playing for two years. And now Baird has committed to playing college lacrosse at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). She committed to GVSU at the beginning of the school year. “Grand Valley fit exactly [...]

Baird Resigns, Fisher Takes Over

Baird Resigns, Fisher Takes Over

Baird resigns in midst of second season: Cameron La Fontaine, Teddy Grammatico, Erin Lashbrook, Levi Kipke   After an 0-3 start in his second season, head coach football coach Brian Baird resigned last Sunday for reasons he said were health-related, going along with advice he received from his doctor.   [...]

Rugby: Devils vs Livonia

Rugby: Devils vs Livonia

Track goes up against Tecumseh

Track goes up against Tecumseh

University of Michigan Triathlon Club Holds “Tripocalypse”

University of Michigan Triathlon Club Holds “Tripocalypse”

The University of Michigan Triathlon Club, which Dexter graduate Parker Latshaw is a member of,  held a triathlon called the “Tripocalypse” on April 15. The race started at 8 a.m. at Skyline High School. The race did not raise any money for charity because it was the first one and [...]

Students take old game to a new level

With torn knees and bloody knuckles, junior Tony Shiguango sits down, exhausted.  He has just finished a three hour session of “Mini Sticks” and needs a rest. The game according to Shiguango is, “A competition of strength and cunning which involves small hockey sticks and pucks.” “We usually get about [...]

New track coach hired for spring

Click here to hear Doris Simmons’ Interview Former heptathlete, coach and trainer Doris Simmons was recently chosen for the head track coaching job after moving to Dexter. During her college career at the University of Michigan, Simmons competed in the 100 meter hurdle, 200 meter, the high jump, the long [...]

Seniors sign for athletics

Seniors sign for athletics

Signing day was Feb. 1, and 10 seniors committed to a college in the high school library after school, including senior Drew Barnes. For Barnes that day meant signing with Alma College, a private, liberal arts school located an hour north of Lansing, to wrestle. Barnes has wrestled for four [...]

Seniors invent sockey

Seniors invent sockey

Sockey is a sport combining the basics of soccer, handball and hockey. Seniors Michael Mioduszewski and Jeff Baldus claim to have invented what they call a simple but fun, physically demanding sport. All that is needed to play the sport, according to these two, is a wallet, four objects to [...]

ONE club hopes put on basketball game (with video)

ONE club hopes put on basketball game (with video)

Although ONE is the newest club in school, co-presidents seniors Ali Bowman and Sam Griffith said they have wasted no time getting to business. Their newest project is the ONE basketball game. “The game will be similar to the games like Shoot for the Cure and Volley for the Cure,” [...]