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Mark Ekren, who retired as the Activities Director at Morris Area High School in June, was named the Minnesota Activities Director of the Year for Class A schools earlier in the year.

Earlier this year, St. Michael-Albertville School District Activities Director Keith Cornell was named the Minnesota Activities Director of the Year for AA schools.

Farmington Band Director Erin Holmes struck a high note when she was honored with the Schmitt Music Educator of the Year award. 

Treacy Funk, who has worked for St. Paul Public Schools for 32 years, the last 12 as athletics director at Central, is retiring June 17.

Dick Gosse, an official in Rochester, has influenced thousands of lives during an officiating career that’s spanned 58 years.

Tom Schleper, baseball coach at Shakopee High School, was recently selected as one of seven inductees to the 2022 Minnesota State High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Rita Rislund, who worked in the Princeton School District for 34 years, was inducted Tuesday, March 29 into the Minnesota Interscholastic Activities Administrator Association’s hall of fame.

Ayoka Lee, a 2018 graduate of Byron High School, set the NCAA women's basketball single-game scoring record on February 23, 2022. Lee, who is a junior at Kansas State University, scored 61 points in a 94-65 victory over the University of Oklahoma.

Tom Jones, a longtime Albert Lea referee reached a milestone Saturday, January 8, when he officiated his 1,000th official winter basketball game since the 2009-10 season.

Ben Bauer, a 2021 graduate of Cloquet High School, recently flew to Colorado to formally accept the National Student Athlete Scholarship from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrator Association (NIAAA).