LANSING — Elections were completed recently to fill positions on the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s legislative body, its Representative Council, with six members receiving re-election from their respective constituencies and two new members also selected to join the council beginning with its fall meeting this December.

Kingsford athletic director Chris Hartman was re-elected to continue representing Class A and B schools in the Upper Peninsula on the Representative Council. The term is two years.

The Representative Council is the 19-member legislative body of the MHSAA.

Additional elections took place to select representatives to the Upper Peninsula Athletic Committee. Menominee assistant principal/athletic director Sam Larson was re-elected to continue representing Class C schools, and Paradise-Whitefish Township Schools superintendent Vincent Gross was re-elected to continue representing Class D schools. Both of those elections were uncontested. Houghton athletic director Rob Fay was elected by majority vote to represent Class A-B schools.

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by more than 1,500 public and private senior high schools and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common rules for athletic eligibility and competition. No government funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament entry fees from schools.

Member schools which enforce these rules are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments, which attract more than 1.4 million spectators each year.