Mir Amiri has seen a lot in his young life. Some are memories he would rather not think about, but being able to enroll at Bloomington Kennedy and join the wrestling team has been spectacular.
Kailee Olson is a 2009 graduate of Cambridge-Isanti, and her hometown turned out for her. There was a raffle, a silent auction, a halftime shooting contest and more, with a whole bunch of folks wearing “Full Court Fight For Kailee” T-shirts.
People in the school communities of Rocori, Albany, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, St. John's Prep, Eden Valley-Watkins, New London-Spicer and Paynesville know exactly what River Lakes is. It’s their cooperative girls hockey team.
This hasn’t been the dream of a basketball season that Tommy Ahneman may have envisioned. But there’s still plenty of time to create some wonderful lifelong memories for the top-ranked senior in Minnesota, who plays for the top-ranked team in Class 4A.
Andrew Klinnert, an 18-year-old senior at Fergus Falls High School, is in his first year as an MSHSL basketball official and has worked several games with his grandfather.
Goodhue is in Class A and Caledonia is in Class 2A and no one would be surprised to see both squads at this year’s girls state basketball tournament in March.
Hopkins is a basketball school. And Wayzata is no slouch. Tuesday’s meeting in one of the state’s best rivalries was not only a renewal of that Lake Conference competition but also offered a look into what is to come.
After landing back in Minnesota on a flight from Omaha, Nebraska, the heavy lifting was done on a two-day whirlwind of music and theater – 400 miles apart -- that may have seemed all but impossible to some.
The growth of girls wrestling in Minnesota, as well as Iowa, has been an absolute boom. More than 1,500 Minnesota girls in grades 7 through 12 are on wrestling teams this season. That number has almost doubled from a year ago.
