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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) has announced its Athletes of the Week for the period covering December 8-14. Each week throughout the academic year, the conference recognizes standout performances from student-athletes across its member institutions. The MIAA Athlete of the Week honors are selected from nominations submitted by head coaches at each school. These awards spotlight the top individual efforts in competition and showcase the high level of play within the conference. Selections are released every Monday at 4:00 p.m., with the exception of weeks impacted by federal holidays.

MIAA Men's Basketball Athlete of the Week - Parker Hovey, Hope College
Junior forward Parker Hovey delivered the best performance of his career in Hope’s 84–74 win over Wisconsin-Platteville, the reigning WIAC champion and a team receiving votes in the latest D3hoops.com Top 25. Hovey poured in a career-high 29 points while shooting 9-of-14 (.643) from the field and 10-of-12 (.833) at the free-throw line. He also led the Flying Dutch with eight rebounds and drew nine fouls. Hovey currently ranks among the MIAA’s top five in points per game (15.6), field goals (41), points (109), defensive rebounds (41), total rebounds (57), rebounds per game (8.1), field-goal percentage (.547), blocks (12), and steals (12).

MIAA Women's Basketball Athlete of the Week - Hannah Sall, Calvin University
Junior forward Hannah Sall recorded a double-double in Calvin's 66-50 victory over Albion on Friday, finishing with 15 points and 11 rebounds. She also added three assists and three blocks while shooting 7-of-13 (.538) from the field. Sall currently leads the conference with 28 offensive rebounds and ranks among the league's top five with 65 total rebounds and 21 blocks.

MIAA Wrestling Athlete of the Week - Adrian Rosas, Adrian College
Senior Adrian Rosas posted a perfect 3-0 record at the Berg Holiday Duals in the 125-pound bracket, scoring 15 team points to help the Bulldogs finish 2-1 in dual competition. He opened the weekend with a 9-3 decision over Millikin's Jayden Wiegand, followed by a win by fall at 1:43 against Otterbein's Marcy Olivo. Rosas closed the day with a victory by forfeit in his final matchup. 

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By Geoff Kimmerly MHSAA.com senior editor 

EAST LANSING, Mich. -  The Michigan High School Athletic Association’s seventh Multi-Sport Participation Survey, conducted last spring for the 2024-25 school year, showed small but continuing growth of multi-sport participation among athletes at member high schools.

The annual Multi-Sport Participation Survey was inspired by the MHSAA’s Task Force on Multi-Sport Participation, which was appointed in 2016 to study early and intense sport specialization – a serious issue related to health and safety at all levels of youth sports – and to promote multi-sport participation as a way to help stave off overuse injuries and burnout among athletes that have been tied to chronic injuries and health-related problems later in life.

The 2024-25 Multi-Sport Participation Survey received responses from 82.7 percent of member high schools and showed 45.4 percent of athletes at those MHSAA member high schools participating in two or more sports, an increase of six tenths of a percent from 2023-24. Multi-sport participation has shown increases every year of the study – and a combined increase of 2.6 percent since the first study after the 2017-18 school year.  

For 2024-25, 47.8 percent of male athletes and 42.3 percent of female athletes played multiple sports. The percentage of multi-sport athletes remains inversely proportional to schools’ enrollments, as Class D schools again enjoyed the highest percentage of multi-sport athletes at 63.1 percent, followed by Class C schools (59.6), Class B (49.3) and Class A (38.5).

All four enrollment classifications also continued to show increasing multi-sport participation. Class A multi-sport participation increased three tenths of a percent from 2023-24 and is now up 2.6 percent from 2017-18 survey results. Class B increased 1.3 percent from the previous year and is also up 2.6 percent since 2017-18. Class C multi-sport participation grew two tenths of a percent over the previous year and sits 4.4 percent higher than the first study, and Class D multi-sport participation in 2024-25 remained the same as in 2023-24 and has grown five percent over the last seven years.

The MHSAA Task Force also recommended measuring multi-sport participation in MHSAA member schools to recognize “achievers” – that is, schools that surpass the norm.

Battle Creek Harper Creek, Detroit Cody and Grand Rapids Northview have appeared among the top 10 percent of their respective Classes six of the seven years the survey has been conducted. Four more schools have appeared among the top 10 percent of their Classes five of the seven years: Decatur, East Grand Rapids, Manton and Warren Michigan Collegiate. Detroit Douglass, Parma Western and Lake Leelanau St. Mary have appeared among the top 10 percent of their Classes four times apiece.

In Class A, Grand Rapids Northview (79.4 percent) posted the highest percentage of multi-sport athletes for 2024-25, followed by Macomb L’Anse Creuse North (70 percent), Detroit Cass Tech (61.4) and Sterling Heights Stevenson (60.7) also reporting at least 60 percent.

Warren Michigan Collegiate paced Class B schools with 91.3 percent of athletes playing multiple sports, followed by Tecumseh (77.7), Yale (76.6), Detroit Cody (71.4), Battle Creek Harper Creek (71.3) and Manistee (70.1). Class C saw  six schools reach 80 percent for the second-straight school year, led by Jackson Lumen Christi (97.6 percent), Martin (89.7), Bad Axe (89.3), Cass City (88.6), Center Line Prep Academy (83.6) and Decatur (82.3).

Watervliet Grace Christian topped the Class D list at 93.8 percent of athletes participating in multiple sports. Next were Watersmeet (89.7), Lake Leelanau St. Mary (88.2), Detroit Douglass (87.8), Vestaburg (87.7) and Portland St. Patrick (87.3).

The full summary report on the Multi-Sport Participation Survey is available on the “Multi-Sports Benefits” page.

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