http://www.thebattlecreekshopper.com BATTLE CREEK SHOPPER NEWS Thursday, July 4, 2024 3118935 15-1/2 Mile Rd., North of Marshall
OPEN: Tue-Sat 11am-7pm • Sun 11am-5pm
For more info 781-4293 / http://www.turkeyville.com* Check out our website for more info!JOIN OUR TEAM
**- Full or part-time baker
- Full-time kitchen worker
- Part-time Ice Cream Workers
- Ice Cream Manager position
- Dinner Theatre Wait Staff - full time**
Great Wages & Flexible Hours
NOW HIRING
DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS
to work in a group home for disabled adults in
the Marshall and Battle Creek areas.
Starting at $15.45/hr.
All training provided.
No experience or diploma necessary.Progressive Residential Services
586-295-9742Sporting News
BATTLE
CREEK
The Representative Council of
the Michigan High School Athletic
Association took several actions dur-
ing its Spring Meeting that took place
in May in Gaylord.
Included in the actions was approv-
ing the addition of boys’ volleyball
and girls’ field hockey to the lineup
of MHSAA-sponsored tournament
sports beginning in 2025-26; and
reorganizing the winter championship
calendar to end one week earlier.
The Spring Meeting of the
19-member legislative body of the
Association’s more than 1,500 mem-
ber schools is generally the busiest of
its sessions each year. The Council
considered 28 committee proposals
and dealt with a variety of eligibil-
ity rule, postseason tournament and
operational issues.
After a yearlong conversation about
emerging sports at MHSAA mem-
ber schools, the Council approved a
Volleyball Committee recommenda-
tion to begin sponsorship of boys’
volleyball with the 2025-26 school
year.
And, the Council also voted to
begin sponsorship of girls’ field
hockey beginning with 2025-26.
Girls’ field hockey will be played
during the Fall season, and boys’ vol-
leyball during the Spring season, with
the 2024-25 school year to serve as a
development period as the MHSAA
works with the current governing
organizations for those sports.
These will be the first sports added
to the MHSAA’s tournament offer-
ings since girls’ and boys’ lacrosse
joined the lineup during the 2004-05
school year.
Changes to the MHSAA Winter
Calendar will take effect in 2025-26
and include several adjustments to
Finals schedules and practice starts
that overall will lead to the winter
sports season ending one week earlier- reflecting a fall survey that showed
nearly 80 percent of MHSAA mem-
ber schools felt the winter should be
shortened.
The reshaped winter sports calendar
also completes competition before
schools begin their spring breaks –
which are being scheduled earlier
than in the past – and places champi-
onships on dates that avoid potential
facility conflicts.
Beginning with 2025-26, the last
weekend in February will include
the Team Wrestling, Bowling and
Competitive Cheer Finals (with
Skiing Finals remaining on the
Monday of that week). The first
weekend in March will include the
Individual Wrestling, Boys’ Ice
Hockey and Girls’ Gymnastics Finals.
The Boys’ Basketball Finals will
move to the second weekend of
March with the Lower Peninsula
Boys’ volleyball will be added as a Michigan High School Athletic Association-
sanctioned spring sport starting with the 2025-26 season. Currently, boys’
volleyball is a club sport, and among the local schools featuring club teams- which in some cases have been co-ops with other local/area schools – have
been Calhoun Christian, Battle Creek Academy, Battle Creek Central and
Gull Lake. (Shopper News file photo by Will Kowalski)
Lots of actions taken at MHSAA spring meeting
See MHSSA on 32The Kimball House
196 Capital Ave NE
Battle Creek, MI 49017How Slavery Evolved, part 1
~ Presented by Donna Rickman ~
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Before 2pm
Donation - $5