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Perfection-- that's what millions of sports fans witnessed in early April with the University of South Carolina women's basketball team in the NCAA tournament. And the win was especially sweet for hoops fans in Minnesota with Albertville native Tessa Johnson shining on the biggest of stages.

Jim Galvin, long-time coach, teacher and community member, has been honored by White Bear Lake Area Schools for his decades of service to the school community. The White Bear Lake Area School Board voted at its March 4, 2024 meeting to name the fully renovated White Bear Lake Area High School gymnasium “Galvin Court.”

Today, Hutchinson is known as a football town, having won its seventh state championship in 2023. But in the early 1960s, it was very much a basketball town. The Tigers won the District 12 title in 1963 and placed sixth at the state tournament in 1964.

Avery Seed, a senior at Perpich Arts High School, recently received the Empower Rising Star Award from TeamWomen.

In front of over 150 friends and family members, Elk River native and Elk River High School alumnus Nick Perbix had a happy homecoming on January 4, 2024.

People who knew Todd Goettsche often described him as "larger than life."

Brooklyn Park’s Derrick Ogechi has signed for Cordoba Club de Baloncesto in the Spanish Liga EBA, part of the lower tiers of the Spanish professional basketball pyramid.

From a Chinese orphanage to winning sled hockey gold medals for Team USA, Chloe Kirkpatrick's story of how she became one of Bemidji's most remarkable athletes is one of impressive perseverance.

Chain gangs play an important role at football games — one that isn’t going away anytime soon. And, for the last 25 years, the football crew working the sidelines at Richfield High School and Academy of Holy Angels games has included Mark Brodersen and Paul Wozniczka.

Friends, family members and the Jordan community recently joined members of the 1983 Hubmen football team to celebrate the team’s induction into the Jordan Public Schools Hall of Fame.

Bill Steil was a Cold Spring native and for more than 40 years was a familiar face at ROCORI, Cold Spring and Richmond sporting events.

Dennis Piechowski and Mackenzie Leverty recently reflected on their father-daughter volleyball coaching rivalry.