“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."
Skip Dolan has been coaching Annandale for 26 years and the Cardinals’ 60-49 win over Minneapolis North was the first boys basketball title for the school.
In 2007 an athlete from Cherry High School had a serious health problem. Thanks to a former U.S. senator and future governor of Minnesota, everything was taken care of.
Providence Academy assistant girls basketball coach Brian Cosgriff is one of the most successful head coaches in the history of Minnesota high school basketball.
The pink t-shirts were a bit striking when the girls basketball team from Hayfield High School took the court. The words on the front of the shirts read, “In memory of Macy,” with wings attached to the M and Y. On the back was one word in all caps: HOLTAN.
Kasey Krekling, a 2007 Hayfield graduate who teaches second grade in his hometown, has a combined record of 58-0 as baseball and girls basketball coach since the start of the 2021 baseball season.
The photo of two people shaking hands, an 88-yard-old man and a teenage boy, encompasses both the history of high school hockey in Minnesota and the reverence for the game’s stars.
The circle is almost complete for the Hermantown boys hockey team. The Hawks are one win away from a Class A state championship, which would help with the healing after last season ended at the ugly hands of Covid-19.
A grandpa's final job before retiring as a pipefitter was at Xcel Energy Center, where he buried his boots in concrete under center ice. He was thrilled when his grandson played there a few years later.
Maddie Gallant grew up around wrestling. Her father is a former long-time wrestling coach and Maddie was a wrestling scorekeeper at Wadena-Deer Creek when she was in junior high. This season was different, because Maddie became a wrestler for the first time
1971-72 was the most memorable year in St. James High School history, which was highlighted by state championships in wrestling and boys basketball. This year marks the 50th anniversary of those titles.
“I feel like my generation was kind of the first wave for people to take very seriously; before that were the pioneers. They paved the way, they showed what women can do.”
