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Sanyu Mwassa and Mariam Elias-Danjuma, 2024 graduates of White Bear Lake Area High School, recently became the first Black women to win in the duo category of the National Speech & Debate Tournament.

The beautiful green vision of a cornfield, followed by soybean fields – sights we had grown up with – told us we were close to home. Minnesota.

Effective with the 2025 season, rules changes in Boys Lacrosse include lost equipment during play, helmet wear and checking.

Effective with the 2025 season, one-way electronic communication between the coach and catcher will be permitted.

Effective with the 2025 season, high school baseball players using non-wood bats will have greater flexibility in using substances to enhance their grip on the bat.

Diver Alayna Kennedy, a senior at Austin High School, will compete with the AAU Junior National Team in Rome, Italy on July 24-26. She qualified in the one-meter, three-meter and five-meter platform events.

Five years after winning a state championship, the members of the 2019 Henning High School boys basketball team continue to inspire. On the fifth anniversary of that state title, I revisited the team and learned that they continue to be a very special group.

To see Mason Archibald competing in track and field is a testament to the human spirit, as well as the spirit of a competitive, friendly young man from northern Minnesota.

Arvig Park in Perham was the site of the fourth Brave Like Gabe Invitational, an event like no other. Competition was certainly part of it, but there was camaraderie, there was support, there was fundraising, there was remembrance, there was love, so much love.

Skip and Cathy Dolan have three kids and eight grandkids, and the whole lot sits a couple rows behind the Annandale Cardinals bench. Above the bleachers, up on the wall, is a very fitting sign: “Home.”

The growth of high school girls wrestling in Minnesota has been remarkable. This season is the third one since the MSHSL officially sanctioned girls wrestling, and more than a thousand females are participating, from schools large and small all over the state.

Bands from Section 2A Subsection 8 gathered for the annual Large Group Contest. Yes, the MSHSL is involved in athletics, but it also proudly oversees all kinds of fine arts activities, ranging from theater to speech to debate to visual arts to choir and band.