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Park High School has become a team to watch for reasons beyond the scoreboard. The Wolfpack are believed to be the only football team in the country at any level that’s wearing extra protection in the form of Guardian caps.

How Hall of Fame coach Lonnie Morken got involved in volleyball, and how he remained close to home, is a story that leans on serendipity, fortune and maybe just a bit of good timing.

"Everybody keeps saying we'll never get back to normal, just like our nation will never get back to normal. But hopefully we're going to get as close to normal as we can."

Owatonna has a new football stadium and Hancock is playing every game this season on the road. But playing well is more important than where you're playing.

The biggest offseason volleyball coaching change in years took place at Eagan High School, where longtime head coach Kathy Gillen became an assistant to her daughter, McKenna Melville. And at Chaska, coach Sue Murphy promoted two of her former players to varsity assistants

The first Brave Like Gabe Invitational was held a few months after Gabe died. This year, nearly $2,500 in proceeds from concessions, t-shirt sales and donations from competing teams was given to the Brave Like Gabe Foundation.

The first game of any season in any sport is special. In Alden and Verndale, these games kicked off the high school football season in Minnesota; they were Zero Week contests in nine-player football, two of eight such games Thursday and Friday.

With a record of 91-20 since the beginning of the 2019 season, and with plenty of talented players back, the 2023 volleyball season could be another season to remember for Pequot Lakes.

A new banner hangs in a prominent spot on the wall inside the weight room at Mountain Iron-Buhl High School. Two team photos are prominent reminders of what the Rangers football and girls basketball teams accomplished last season: Minnesota State High School League state champions.

When the Alden-Conger/Glenville-Emmons football team went from 0-9 in 2021 to 5-4 in 2022, it opened some eyes. Coming back from an ofer season to win more than half your games is not an easy lift in football.

A handful of Minnesota high school football teams are on the practice field a week early as they begin preparations for the 2023 season. Sixteen teams will play Zero Week games on Aug. 24 or 25.

Mike Mahlen has been the head football coach at Verndale since 1969. That was the year when Neil Armstrong put a foot on the moon’s surface, the Woodstock music festival was held in upstate New York and Sesame Street made its television debut.