This weekly series spotlights the state's top athletes and most intriguing stories across its five fall high school sports.

Hello and welcome to USA TODAY's The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Thursday, September 10th, 2026. Those were students ...

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USA TODAY High School Sports Super 50 turns the spotlight on each state's top high school football team entering Labor Day ...

Michigan's student scores were higher on the reading and writing portions of the SAT than on the math portion, aligning with ...

Back-to-school season is rolling in South Dakota with hallways filling up and fall sports underway. U.S. News released its ...

Thirty-seven Orange County high schools landed among the top 300 in California and top 1,700 nationally in the latest U.S.

We crunched the numbers to come up with our guide to the region’s top-performing schools. About the 2026 list This year’s ...