The track at Munising High School collapsed Monday night after heavy weekend thunderstorms weakened the structure. The track is now off-limits to the public, and this Friday's popular "under the lights" meet has been cancelled. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University women's track and field team thoroughly impressed at this weekend's Titan Invitational in Oshkosh, Wis., collecting eight first place finishes. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Sports Information photo, story)
The 2024 Marquette Marathon wrapped up on Saturday afternoon at the Superior Dome, with Adam Martin Caldwell (Wilder, Vermont) taking home first place in the marathon. Click the above headline for details and all of the results. (NMU story, photo)
The Bark River-Harris High School girls track and field team won its first-ever MHSAA Upper Peninsula championship on Saturday, and it wasn't even close. The Broncos raced past everybody to win by 33 points. Click the above headline for details (MHSAA courtesy)
Gladstone High School senior Ahna Larson signed her National Letter of Intent Friday to attend school at Northern Michigan University. She will join the Wildcat Track & Field team this fall. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University Track & Field saw six student-athletes earn U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Academic Honors. As a team, the Wildcats also earned All-Academic Team status. Click the above headline for detai9ls.
A total of 39 Northern Michigan University student-athletes were named to the 2019 Spring Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-Academic and all-Academic Excellence teams. Track & Field led the Wildcat varsity programs with 19 honorees, followed by Lacrosse with 11. Click the above headline to see the list of honorees.
Delta County's track teams were more than competitive at the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals on Saturday in Kingfsord. Rapid River's boys took second in Division Three, while Gladstone was third and Escanaba fourth in the boys Division One races. Click the above headline for all of the team and individual results. (Dawn Gustafson photo)
Marquette won both the boys and girls championships in a four-team track meet on a blustery afternoon Thursday in Gladstone. The Braves were second in both meets, with Escanaba third and Norway fourth. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The high school boys and girls track & field seasons got off to a belated start on Tuesday as four schools met in Escanaba. The Marquette Redmen won both the boys and girls meets. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos. (Pictured: Marquette's Raffy Millado)
The Rapid River High School boys track team won its second straight MHSAA Division Three Upper Peninsula championship on Saturday in Kingsford, edging Bessemer, 108-104. Pickford was a distant third. Click the above headline to see the results.
Marquette swept the MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula track and field team titles on Saturday in Kingsford, but Escanaba's Jeny Brandt, and Gladstone's Sydney Mills and Adam Bruce took home individual first place honors. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School boys and girls track teams rolled to MHSAA Division One regional championships on Friday in Escanaba, while several other track finals were also held across the U.P. Click the above headline to see all of the results, plus photos, videos.
The Rapid River High School boys track and field team used the "home track advantage" to win an MHSAA Division Three Regional Championship on Thursday. The girls title went to Engadine. Click the above headline for more. (Lisa Anderson photo)
The nation’s first transgendered Olympic athlete has ties to the Upper Peninsula. Chris Mosier is a triathlete…although at these games in Rio deJaniero, the competition is a duathlon. Click the above headline to read more. (Picture: NMU Northern Magazine, Fall 2015)
The Rapid River High School boys track team won the school's first Upper Peninsula championship on Saturday, edging North Central, 72-68, in Kingsford. Ontonagon won the D-3 girls title. Click the above headline for deails, and photos taken by Lisa Anderson.
The Escanaba High School girls track and field team finished in a tie for second place Saturday at the U.P. Finals in Kingsford. The Eskymos were tied with Sault Ste. Marie with 61 points, way behind the champion Marquette Redettes. Click the above headline for details, and to see all of the Division One boys and girls results.
The Munising Mustangs won the Skyline Conference Track Championship for both the boys and girls on Friday in Felch. Rapid River was second. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School track teams won the Great Northern Conference championships in both boys and girls track on Thursday in Escanaba. The meet was held after a long rain delay. Click the above headline for the scores, photos, and videos.
The Rapid River High School boys track team won the Division Three regional championship in Munising, with Dan Blair having a big day several events. Munising won the girls meet. Click the above headline for details, and for photos by Lisa Anderson.
The Rapid River High School boys and girls track teams both won the championships of the Bark River Invitational Tuesday afternoon. Click the above headline to see photos taken by Lisa Anderson. (Pictured above: the start of the boys 1600 run)
The boys and girls high school track and field season got started Tuesday as the Marquette High School hosted the Division One Dome Meet inside the Superior Dome. Click the above headline to read the scores from the event.
Marquette won the championships of the boys and girls U.P. Track and Field Finals on Saturday in Kingsford. Ishpeming won both of the D-2 titles, while Munising took the D-3 boys and Newberry won the D-3 girls championship. Click the above headline to see details.
The high school track season entered the post-season on Thursday as MHSAA Regionals were held across the Upper Peninsula. Marquette won both of the D-1 the boys and girls titles in Gladstone, while Munising did the same in both of the D-3 meets in Rapid River. Click the above headline to see results and photos. Pictured above: Escanaba's Ryan Timler throws the discus in Thursday's D-1 regional in Gladstone.
The high school track season came to an end on Saturday with the U.P. Finals at Kingsford High School. Kingsford's boys and Marquette's girls won in Division One. Ishpeming's boys and St. Ignace's girls won in Division Two. Munising's boys and Brimley's girls won in Division Three. Click the above headline for results.
The Marquette High School boys track team had just enough points to beat the Gladstone Braves, 50-47, at the MHSAA Division One Regional Meet Friday in Marquette. The Marquette girls won by a wide margin as Escanaba finished second. Click the above headline to read details.
The MHSAA Regional Track Meets went forward across the Upper Peninsula on Thursday, despite temperatures in the 30's, and in some areas, snowfall. Meets were held in Iron Mountain, Munising, Negaunee, Munising, and Felch. Click the above headline to see the results.
Escanaba senior Lynsey Collins won three events in a dominating performance Saturday at the Negaunee Lions Track and Field Invitational. Collins set a Meet Record in the 300 hurdles, less than a second shy of the Eskymo school record. Click the above headline to read more details from the meet.
Junior varsity track and field teams from six Upper Peninsula schools braved the elements to run in a meet Friday afternoon in Escanaba. Menominee's girls and Marquette boys won the meet. Click the above headline to see 30 photos taken at the event.
The Gladstone Braves managed to keep their Delta County Track Meet winning streak alive on Wednesday, but not by much. The Braves edged Escanaba by 11 points for their eleventh straight boys title. The Escanaba girls dominated their meet, more than doubling the score of the second place Braves. Click the above headline to read more details.
