Erik Hermanson has dual educational roles that are all but unknown. Football coaches are usually teachers or administrators, but the combination of football and instrumental music is extremely rare.
Andrew Klinnert is an 18-year-old senior at Fergus Falls High School. He is in his first year as an MSHSL basketball official and has worked several games with his grandfather. If Andrew officiates for as many years as his grandpa, he will put in more than 60 winters on the court.
After 40 years, a page was set aside for Blaine baseball’s longtime statistician and assistant coach Bill Zenner. He was recently honored in a celebration at the Blaine Baseball Complex.
Twenge, 71, is a true baseball lifer. Ask him about winning 1,000 games and he’ll likely respond with a statement about losing 600-some games, too. And he will smile.
A few days before Christmas, three wise men made history on the basketball court at Duluth Denfeld High School. They brought gifts of wisdom, experience and gratitude, based on their combined 154 years as basketball officials.
The previous game had just ended when the Green Wave players exited their locker room for the short walk down a hallway, followed by a right turn into the tunnel that leads to the bench, the ice and pregame warmups. Cole never got to the ice.
Every summer I have a tradition of posting my favorite John’s Journal stories from the just-completed school year, and I have just finished choosing those stories.
Park Rapids captured the team title during the Minnesota State High School League's Clay Target State Tournament on Friday, June 20 at the Minneapolis Gun Club in Prior Lake.
The Clay Target State Tournament, the final event of the Minnesota State High School League's school calendar for 2024-2025 is scheduled for Friday, June 20 at the Minneapolis Gun Club in Prior Lake.
