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Birmingham Seaholm holds at No. 7 in Division 1 and Detroit Country Day sits at No. 4 in Division 3 in the latest MHSSCA boys soccer state rankings, giving the area two ranked programs as the regular season enters its final stretch.
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Unbeaten Brother Rice, ranked No. 6 in the MLive Top 25 and No. 2 in the AP Division 2 poll, hosts No. 7 Orchard Lake St. Mary's at Lawrence Tech on Friday, Sept. 25, in a Catholic League showdown that pits the top two Division 2 teams against each other.
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Seaholm's Payton Garn ranks No. 1 in Michigan in the 100 breaststroke on MLive's first 2026 girls swim and dive leaderboard, with Groves' Olivia Kamp at No. 2 and Country Day's Quinn Norlander in the backstroke top 10.
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Groves head football and unified basketball coach Brendan Flaherty was inducted into the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in June 2026, Birmingham Public Schools announced Saturday, Sept. 19.
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Seaholm and Groves boys soccer meet Friday, Sept. 18, at Maple Field for a crosstown doubleheader, with JVB at 4:30 p.m. and JVA at 6:30 p.m., as both teams ride momentum from lopsided Sept. 15 wins.
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The Birmingham Blue Dolphins, a competitive swim club with more than 325 young athletes, is poised to take over operations of the pool at 400 E. Lincoln, the former YMCA building being renovated for the Next senior center.
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Birmingham Seaholm junior Alexandra Green clocked 19:11.0 to win the Division 1 Green Division girls' 5,000-meter race at the 45th annual MSU Spartan Invitational in East Lansing on Sept. 11, her second consecutive invitational title this fall.
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Birmingham Seaholm built a 41-0 lead through three quarters and held off a late Waterford Mott rally to win 41-20 in its OAA Blue home opener Thursday, Sept. 10, with four Maples scoring touchdowns.
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Birmingham Seaholm boys soccer suffered its first loss of the 2026 season, falling 2-1 to Clarkston on Sept. 8 despite a goal from senior captain Liam Kerr, dropping the Maples to 7-1-1 heading into a home matchup with Oxford.
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Ronin McLoughlin and Rowan Hanoosh each scored as the No. 5-ranked Seaholm Maples beat Berkley 2-1 on Tuesday, extending their unbeaten start to 7-0-1.
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Bloomfield Hills native and Brother Rice graduate Luke Newman made the Chicago Bears' 53-man roster for the 2026 season, competing for a starting guard job after being drafted in the sixth round in 2025.
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Ivo Goertz scored the lone goal as Seaholm boys soccer beat Lake Orion 1-0 on Aug. 25, improving to 5-0-1; the Maples host Utica on Thursday at 7 p.m. in their home opener.
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