Tommaso Costantini is a foreign-exchange student who grew up playing rugby in Italy, and dove right into American high school sports by playing football last fall and wrestling this winter. He was a starting linebacker for the Eagles by the midway point in the season and getting to the state wrestling tournament was another memory that will last a lifetime.
When Delta Airlines flight 3831 returned to earth at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport a few minutes ahead of schedule, all was well for a group of talented students from St. Michael-Albertville High School.
John Lieser isn’t exactly a Forrest Gump-type character, but the longtime MSHSL football and basketball official has seen a lot in 80 years of life in Minnesota.
On the final weekend of the 2023-2024 school year, in the ballpark that every baseball-loving kid in Minnesota dreams about, four state champions were decided after a week of weather delays, uncertainty and waiting … waiting … and more waiting.
I don’t know how many sports books were available at my little hometown library in Graettinger, Iowa, but I do know that I read every one of them, some of them more than once, and my favorites were about great baseball players.
Last fall, Russell-Tyler-Ruthton played at the state volleyball tournament for the first time and won a championship. This week, the softball team reached the state tourney for the first time.
What Mahtomedi tennis players Sam Rathmanner, Jack Allaben and Brandon Pham have accomplished, nearly in lockstep with each other, is pretty incredible.
Northome/Kelliher senior Waabi Wagner is a hard-of-hearing student-athlete who’s been given no choice but to adjust in order to play the sport she loves.
