Editing Watersmeet Township, Michigan (section)

==Schools==
In late 2003 and early 2004, the boys' high school basketball team of the K-12 Watersmeet Township School was featured in a series of commercials on [[ESPN]]. ESPN chose Watersmeet for the commercials in part because of  the school's sport teams' unusual nickname of ''Nimrods''. The tag line of the commercials was "Without sports, who would cheer for the Nimrods?" The ads were so popular that the team, its coach, and octogenarian fan Dale Jenkins, all of whom were featured on the commercials, appeared on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' on March 15, 2004.

The township and the Nimrods are the focus of an 8-part [[Documentary film|documentary]], ''Nimrod Nation'', which aired on [[Sundance Channel (United States)|The Sundance Channel]]. Filming started in September 2005 and continued until June 2006. Actor [[Robert Redford]], one of the channel's owners and a champion of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] issues, was reported to have been inspired to make the documentary when he learned that Watersmeet Township School's student body (and varsity basketball team) was approximately 50 percent Native American. [http://www.ironwooddailyglobe.com/1229nimr.htm]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The documentary won a [[Peabody Award]] in 2007.<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/nimrod-nation 67th Annual Peabody Awards], May 2008.</ref>

Since that time, the township has consolidated schools. At the time, 9-12 grade enrollment was 78; the school system  absorbed 13 of neighboring Marenisco's 60 K-12 students.<ref>[http://www.ironwooddailyglobe.com/0117wmsc.htm, ''Ironwood Daily Globe'']{{Dead link|date=December 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Watersmeet township high school enrollment in 2005-2006 enrollment was a total of 96.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mhsaa.com/resources/0506enroll.rtf | title=Mhsaa > 404 }}</ref>