One of the biggest highlights of November across the nation is the start of sports like basketball, gymnastics and a wind down of sports like volleyball, football and cross country. In Oakland county Michigan, one of the the highpoints of the fall is the state finals for cross country. For high schools across Oakland county Michigan, the cross county state finals took place in the beginning of November and led to one high school winning their first ever state title. Lakeland High School and Milford High School showed up to the cross country state finals to take the title.
The article “Lakeland, Milford grab D1 state titles” was written by Marvin Goodwin and printed in the Oakland Press. The article was printed on November 6, just after the state finals took place on November 5. The title was given to the article because the Lakeland boys cross country team and Milford girls cross country team are joined together as Huron Valley schools and both received state titles on the same day.
I spoke with Lakeland high school’s boys’ cross country coach Joe Verellen in a phone call interview as the main subject in the article. We talked about his career at Lakeland, his views about the article and his views on …show more content…
I spoke with coach Brian Salyers, the Milford’s girls’ cross country coach for the last 21 years, over the phone about his experiences also at the events, being interviewed by Marvin at the race and his happiness with the article. There was one problem with the article in this coach’s eyes and it was with what his quote meant. From a reader’s point of view “that was the missing piece…” from Salyers in the article didn’t make sense until he had to explain it to me. “It was taken out of context, we were referring how big it is to win the girls state championship. He left a few things out,” said