Longtime defending team champions will look to add to their rich tradition of success when the Minnesota State High School League’s Boys Swimming and Diving State Meet this week. Breck/Blake returns as the six-time defending champion in Class A while Edina is looking for its fifth consecutive crown in Class AA.
“Ten years from now, I feel like girls wrestling will be just as big as boys wrestling, if not bigger. Especially with how many girls wrestle now compared to just five years ago."
Ryan Bergeron is an award-winning sports journalist that covers Greenbush-Middle River High School for Page 1 Publications. He is the League's recipient of the Outstanding Media Service Award in the Print Division.
Barry Wortel of KTOE Radio in Mankato calls about 75 high school games during the school year for listeners in the Minnesota River Valley. He is the recipient of the League's Outstanding Media Service Award in the Electronic Division.
The Minnesota State High School League's Wrestling State Tournament begins a three-day run on Thursday, March 2 at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul.
Seniors Reagan Kelley of Watertown-Mayer/Mound Westonka (Class A) and Taylar Schaefer of St. Cloud (Class AA) were both successful in defending their respective 2022 all-around titles. Schaefer swept all four events on her way to the championship, while Kelley also captured first place on the vault.
Fourth-seeded Gentry Academy recorded its second upset in as many nights en route to posting a 4-1 victory over No. 2 Andover in the Class AA Girls Hockey Championship Game at the Xcel Energy Center.
Centennial/Spring Lake Park senior forward Lauren O’Hara was selected the recipient of the Class AA Herb Brooks Award on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023 during the Minnesota State High School League’s Girls Hockey State Tournament at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul.
Mankato East senior goalie Annaliese Rader was selected as the recipient of the Class A Herb Brooks Award on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul.
Warroad captured consecutive Class A girls hockey championships for the first time in more than a decade with its 3-1 victory over No. 3 Orono on Saturday, Feb. 25 at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul.
Dave Palmquist was hired when South St. Paul started playing girls hockey in 1994-95, the year when it became an official MSHSL sport. He’s the only original head coach to still be on the job, and he has no plans to stop.
