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100 more Minnesota high school athletes sign Division I and II scholarships
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/16/2025, 6:00pm CDT
Here’s the list of Minnesota athletes signing their financial aid and athletic scholarship documents in the coming weeks.
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Minneapolis, St. Paul area senior girls honored for athletic achievements
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/16/2025, 6:00pm CDT
Among this year’s winners are Burnsville volleyball player Mesaiya Bettis and Maple Grove basketball standout Jordan Ode.
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100 more Minnesota high school athletes sign Division I and II scholarships
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/16/2025, 6:00pm CDT
Here’s the list of Minnesota athletes signing their financial aid and athletic scholarship documents in the coming weeks.
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Recent state champs in football, boys hockey will become section foes next year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 2:30pm CDT
In football, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and Moorhead will compete in 6A Section 6. For boys hockey, Rogers will join the same section as 12-time state champion Edina.
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Minneapolis, St. Paul area senior girls honored for athletic achievements
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/16/2025, 6:00pm CDT
Among this year’s winners are Burnsville volleyball player Mesaiya Bettis and Maple Grove basketball standout Jordan Ode.
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100 more Minnesota high school athletes sign Division I and II scholarships
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/16/2025, 6:00pm CDT
Here’s the list of Minnesota athletes signing their financial aid and athletic scholarship documents in the coming weeks.
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Recent state champs in football, boys hockey will become section foes next year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 2:30pm CDT
In football, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and Moorhead will compete in 6A Section 6. For boys hockey, Rogers will join the same section as 12-time state champion Edina.
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Meet Linnea Ousdigian of Mounds View, the Star Tribune All-Minnesota Girls Nordic Skier of the Year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 03/26/2025, 11:30am CDT
Ousdigian repeated as state champ and also as the Star Tribune’s award winner.
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Meet Logan Drevlow of Hopkins, the All-Minnesota Boys Nordic Skier of the Year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 03/26/2025, 11:00am CDT
Logan Drevlow, a sophomore, repeated as state champion in Nordic skiing, this time winning by 50 seconds, and since has added national championships.
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Meet Caden Burns, the Star Tribune All-Minnesota Boys Alpine Skier of the Year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 03/24/2025, 6:15pm CDT
The St. Paul Academy senior, who won the boys Alpine skiing individual state championship in February, earned a reputation for successfully studying ski courses and academic ones.
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Meet Taylor Voigt, the Star Tribune All-Minnesota Girls Alpine Skier of the Year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 03/24/2025, 5:45pm CDT
After not qualifying for state last year, the Hill-Murray junior won her second girls Alpine skiing state title in February while leading the Pioneers to another team championship.
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Logan Drevlow of Hopkins and Linnea Ousdigian of Mounds View repeat as high school Nordic skiing champions
By Joe Gunther, the Minnesota Star Tribune 02/13/2025, 9:30pm CST
The two sophomores each won in dominant fashion at Giants Ridge.
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Unrivaled rivalries: We asked you about electric high school matchups in Minnesota, and we boiled a long list down to 10
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 02/13/2025, 9:00am CST
Star Tribune readers who double as prep sports fans made their cases for the best grudge matches in the state.
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Edina’s Mason West leads Hornets into boys hockey state tournament and is one of our Prep Athletes of the Week
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 03/04/2025, 3:15pm CST
Other athletes recognized this week include Braden Hegenbarth (Eagan), Mason West (Edina), Trenton Woodall Jones (Fridley), Sam Rupnow (Liberty Classical), Reymie Keenan (Minneapolis Edison), Cail Jahnke (St. Michael-Albertville), Brayden Olsen (Lakeville South).
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Prep Athletes of the Week: Lehla Gaulden of Minneapolis Southwest goes big on boards
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 02/24/2025, 1:30pm CST
Prep Athletes of the Week include Max Anderson of Cretin-Derham Hall, Logan Bender of Chisago Lakes, Andersyn Changamire of Becker, Addison Hoof of Lester Prairie, Adam Lybeck of Minneapolis and Riccardo Marzetti of St. Croix Lutheran.
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100 more Minnesota high school athletes sign Division I and II scholarships
By Jake Epstein, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/16/2025, 6:00pm CDT
Here’s the list of Minnesota athletes signing their financial aid and athletic scholarship documents in the coming weeks.
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Recent state champs in football, boys hockey will become section foes next year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 2:30pm CDT
In football, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and Moorhead will compete in 6A Section 6. For boys hockey, Rogers will join the same section as 12-time state champion Edina.
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Hill-Murray topples Edina in two overtimes for the Class 2A girls hockey title
By David La Vaque, the Minnesota Star Tribune 02/23/2025, 1:00pm CST
A goal at 2:04 of the second OT period by Ella Hornung gave Hill-Murray vengeance for last season’s final.
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Boys Hockey

Joe Dziedzic steps down as coach of Minneapolis public school cooperative boys hockey team
By Jim Paulsen, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/22/2025, 2:00pm CDT
After 13 years with the boys program, Dziedzic is taking over at Breck.
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Recent state champs in football, boys hockey will become section foes next year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 2:30pm CDT
In football, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and Moorhead will compete in 6A Section 6. For boys hockey, Rogers will join the same section as 12-time state champion Edina.
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Edina’s Freddie Schneider, Benjamin Geiger of Northfield among six Minnesotans selected for USA Hockey under-17 national team
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/10/2025, 10:00pm CDT
Hill-Murray defenseman Carson Scott also will join the under-17 residency program, which competes in the United States Hockey League, the only Tier I junior hockey league in the U.S.
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Girls Basketball

Recent state champs in football, boys hockey will become section foes next year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 2:30pm CDT
In football, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and Moorhead will compete in 6A Section 6. For boys hockey, Rogers will join the same section as 12-time state champion Edina.
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Brian Cosgriff, one of Minnesota’s best girls basketball coaches, to retire
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/09/2025, 9:00pm CDT
Brian Cosgriff guided Minnetonka to the Class 4A state championship in 2024 but previously coached the Hopkins program — and Paige Bueckers — over 21 seasons.
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Jordan Ode of Maple Grove, Minnesota’s top Class of ′25 recruit, is honored as Miss Basketball
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/07/2025, 8:45pm CDT
Jordan Ode, headed to Michigan State for college, led the Maple Grove Crimson to second place in the Class 4A tournament.
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Boys Basketball

Longtime Mounds View boys basketball coach Ziggy Kauls dead at 84
By Joel Rippel, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/22/2025, 10:15am CDT
Kauls coached the Mustangs for 45 years, winning two state championships.
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Joe Madson steps down from coaching boys basketball at Mankato East
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/21/2025, 12:15pm CDT
Madson led the Mankato East basketball program for 24 seasons. He is also the school’s softball coach.
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Orono standout Nolan Groves will play college basketball at Texas Tech
By Marcus Fuller, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/19/2025, 10:00pm CDT
The state’s leading scorer at 34.2 points per game this season backed out of his previous commitment to Yale and had an offer from the Gophers.
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Wrestling

Wrestler Reid Ballantyne of Stillwater leads Metro Athletes of the Week for Feb. 24-29
By JIM PAULSEN, Star Tribune 03/02/2020, 5:30pm CST
Also recognized: Derrick Cardinal (Forest Lake wrestling), Soren Dunn (Eden Prairie swimming), P.J. Hayes (Waconia basketball), Lauren Jensen (Lakeville North basketball), Anna Olson (Monticello basketball), and Annika Stewart (Wayzata basketball)
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Final 2020 metro wrestling honor roll
By JIM PAULSEN, Star Tribune 02/03/2020, 5:15pm CST
Updated through Sunday, Feb. 9
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Shakopee wrestler Ben Lunn leads metro Athletes of the Week for Dec. 30-Jan. 4
By JIM PAULSEN, Star Tribune 01/06/2020, 3:00pm CST
Also recognized: Nadia Abid (Maple Grove gymnastics), Mallory Brake (Hastings basketball), Adelaide Burton (Blake hockey), Adrik Kraftson (Stillwater Nordic skiing), Jordan Parent (Forest Lake Nordic skiing) and Simeon Sharp (St. Paul Harding basketball).
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Gymnastics

Final 2020 metro gymnastics honor roll
By JIM PAULSEN, Star Tribune 02/10/2020, 5:45pm CST
Top individual scores through Saturday, Feb. 8
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Norwegian talent bolsters defending gymnastics state champ Stillwater
By Jim Paulsen, Star Tribune 02/21/2019, 3:42pm CST
Ida Bjoerklund, spending a year studying in the U.S., has brought her elite-level skill and training to the Ponies, seeking another Class 2A team title on Friday.
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2019 metro gymnastics honor roll - FINAL
By JIM PAULSEN, Star Tribune 02/11/2019, 5:00pm CST
Through Sunday, Feb. 10
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Swimming & Diving

Hutchinson swim coach Rory Fairbanks announces retirement
By Ron Haggstrom, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/22/2025, 11:15am CDT
Fairbanks guided the girls program for 25 years and added the boys program into the mix 10 years later.
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Recent state champs in football, boys hockey will become section foes next year
By Cassidy Hettesheimer, the Minnesota Star Tribune 04/11/2025, 2:30pm CDT
In football, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and Moorhead will compete in 6A Section 6. For boys hockey, Rogers will join the same section as 12-time state champion Edina.
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Meet Evan Witte of Minnetonka, the Star Tribune All-Minnesota Boys Swimmer of the Year
By Alyce Brown, for the Minnesota Star Tribune 03/26/2025, 11:30am CDT
Witte proved to be the best sprinter in the 2025 Class 2A boys swim meet after winning the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle.
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