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In addition to working contests, League Officials have the opportunity to submit positive reports from their assignments. These reports were received by the League over the past month.

"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.

Former Minnehaha Academy boys soccer coach Guido Kauls was an early pioneer in teaching the game to students from 1961-2000. The League hall of famer compiled 500 career victories.

Longtime Stillwater running coach Scott Christensen led the Ponies to a combined 60 section championships during his 42 years of guiding the Boys Cross Country and Boys Track and Field teams.

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 Minnesota State High School League ranks 10th nationally in athletics participation following the release of data from the National Federation of State High School Associations.

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.

Ismaila Jome recently took some time to reflect on his professional soccer career as well as his time playing for Prairie Seeds Academy. Jones was voted Class A Mr. Soccer in 2012. 

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.