The state’s top competitors in Speech will gather at Eastview High School in Apple Valley for the 2022 Speech State Tournament this weekend. The Class AA students will compete on Friday, April 22 and the Class A students will follow on Saturday, April 23.
Lakia Manska is a busy senior at Morris Area High School. She’s a three-sport athlete, a member of the National Honor Society, a two-time qualifier for the MSHSL state speech tournament, a dancer and more. She’s also fearless.
When the Farmington High School baseball team took the field on Monday afternoon, it was the first time the Tigers had been on their home diamond since last season. That was a memorable season, too, with Farmington winning the Class 4A state championship 31 miles away at Target Field.
The Minnesota State High School High School League's Board of Directors held a regularly-scheduled meeting on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at the Minneapolis Marriott West in Golden Valley. Here is a look at the Board of Directors Meeting Synopsis.
In its regularly-scheduled meeting today, the League's Board of Directors affirmed the hiring of Lisa Quednow and Phil Archer to serve as Associate Directors.
The April 2022 edition of MSHSL Connect, the League's monthly online news magazine, features newsmakers and celebrates winter state tournament champions. Read this and more in the latest edition.
Dreaming was a daily activity for Lurline Baker-Kent and her siblings while growing up in Richmond, Calif. She had a brother that would routinely throw a blanket over their mother’s dining table and climb underneath to slip away into thoughts, visions and hopes for the future.
It’s been an exciting year seeing the celebrations and memories that have been brought forward as part of commemorating the 50th year of Title IX. In reflecting on what Title IX has meant to, and provided for me and those closest to me, I spent time learning from my own mom who graduated from high school in 1962, reflecting on my own experiences as a 1985 graduate, and considering my daughter’s class of 2020 experience. Blended into those three time-markers are my sister whose graduation followed mine by three years and my two sisters-in-law who graduated in 1977.
“To be honest with you, it’s crazy, it’s stressful, it's painful. I mean, I live and work in North Minneapolis and every time I hear about gunshots in the community, every time I hear about something going on, I worry. These are my kids."
One last championship was earned on Saturday, March 26, 2022, a title that ended a marathon of Minnesota State High School League winter state tournament events. And that title, the third of the day, went to a member school that had never won a crown in boys basketball.
A week ago, the Totino-Grace Girls Basketball team won the Class AAA girls championship for the second time since 2008. The ink has barely dried from updating that achievement in the record book and it will need to be summoned again. The boys’ side has one of their own now, too, to bring back to the Fridley-based school.
